At Home Shear Sharpening: Good Or Bad?
In your job as a hair dresser, almost every appointment will require the use of hair scissors. This frequent use makes it vitally important that you keep the sharp so you can give your clients the perfect cut. High end shears often come with a long term warranty that includes free sharpening for a given amount of time. The downside of this offer is that a stylist must send out his or her hair scissors and be without them for several days. On the other hand, a stylist can use a local sharpener for this service. This faster, but often more expensive. The third and final choice is one that is long debated: sharpening your shears by yourself.
In on case, these are a very expensive tool and it's much too risky to sharpen them by yourself and potentially ruin their quality. On the other hand, you're a professional stylist and you've been working with shears for a long time, so why aren't you qualified to sharpen them? How hard can it be, right?
Below are I've presented both sides of this argument to help you decide which option is best for you. These views are collected from a variety of places around the Internet and they present a variety of ideas. It's important to consider all of your options before you make a decision because whether you vote yes or no, these hair scissors are undoubtedly important.
YES, you should sharpen your shears at home.
You've already spent a lot of money on your hair scissors, so why spend any more on sharpening? You have to do this often because of how much you use the scissors, so sometimes it's just not feasible to send them out or take them somewhere to be sharpened.
There are endless Web sites that teach people how to sharpen their hair scissors and YouTube is wild with instructional videos on everything. Some places online even recommend cutting a piece of sandpaper as a method of sharpening your hair scissors.
NO, you should NOT sharpen your shears at home.
As previously stated, you've already spent a lot of money on your hair scissors, so don't ruin them by trying to amateurly sharpen them. If you are truly a professional hair stylist, you should have your own or at least have access to a back-up pair of hair scissors. Perhaps it is an inconvenience to schedule a sharpening service, but this tool is the basis of your career, so it is worth it.
Although the Internet has so many places to explain hair scissor sharpening, who are these "experts," really? How can you be certain these people know what they talking about? Can you truly learn all you need to from a paragraph or short video? And even though sand paper works well for your $5 craft scissors from Wal-Mart, these hair scissors are much more fragile, and much more important. Professional hair scissors are made from a different type of metal that is more sensitive and more precise. Using sand paper could ruin them, or at the very least, leave them worse off than they are now.
In on case, these are a very expensive tool and it's much too risky to sharpen them by yourself and potentially ruin their quality. On the other hand, you're a professional stylist and you've been working with shears for a long time, so why aren't you qualified to sharpen them? How hard can it be, right?
Below are I've presented both sides of this argument to help you decide which option is best for you. These views are collected from a variety of places around the Internet and they present a variety of ideas. It's important to consider all of your options before you make a decision because whether you vote yes or no, these hair scissors are undoubtedly important.
YES, you should sharpen your shears at home.
You've already spent a lot of money on your hair scissors, so why spend any more on sharpening? You have to do this often because of how much you use the scissors, so sometimes it's just not feasible to send them out or take them somewhere to be sharpened.
There are endless Web sites that teach people how to sharpen their hair scissors and YouTube is wild with instructional videos on everything. Some places online even recommend cutting a piece of sandpaper as a method of sharpening your hair scissors.
NO, you should NOT sharpen your shears at home.
As previously stated, you've already spent a lot of money on your hair scissors, so don't ruin them by trying to amateurly sharpen them. If you are truly a professional hair stylist, you should have your own or at least have access to a back-up pair of hair scissors. Perhaps it is an inconvenience to schedule a sharpening service, but this tool is the basis of your career, so it is worth it.
Although the Internet has so many places to explain hair scissor sharpening, who are these "experts," really? How can you be certain these people know what they talking about? Can you truly learn all you need to from a paragraph or short video? And even though sand paper works well for your $5 craft scissors from Wal-Mart, these hair scissors are much more fragile, and much more important. Professional hair scissors are made from a different type of metal that is more sensitive and more precise. Using sand paper could ruin them, or at the very least, leave them worse off than they are now.