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SHEAR INTEGRITY Don’t let sharpening the tools of your trade become a scary proposition. Have
you or someone you know had a bad experience as the result of scissor
sharpening or had their shears ruined by a sharpening service? With 25 years in business, SHEAR INTEGRITY has earned one of the highest
customer-satisfaction records in the industry. This was no easy feat, especially
given that more than half our business consists of corrective sharpening and
repair as a result of damage caused by another sharpening service. To complicate
matters, you should know that most scissors being sold today as Japanese
shears are actually inferior copies that cost a fraction to produce--and they are
being sold at the significantly higher prices of authentic Japanese shears.
SHEAR INTEGRITY does not wish to malign honest and reputable sharpening
services and scissor manufacturers. Neither does SHEAR INTEGRITY believe that
everyone should cut with $500 shears made only in Japan. SHEAR INTEGRITY also does
not believe that their customers should pay $20–$50 to sharpen or repair a $5
cast-metal blank. (Ironically it’s simpler to sharpen an authentic Japanese
shear, because alloys in the Japanese shear make them more responsive and the
results more predictable than the weaker, inferior steels used in copies and
knockoffs.)
Increasing numbers of unqualified sharpeners are entering the business, but
there is no way to regulate this now highly saturated field. Before you
trustingly hand over your tools to the next sharpener to visit your salon or mail
them away to an unproven vendor, please take these three important steps:
The management of SHEAR INTEGRITY hopes you read this in the spirit in which
it was intended. Someone must go on record to raise the bar and industry
standard.
Thank you.
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