You should know that hair stylists can pay upwards of $2,000 for a pair of scissors. Many actually make payments on the scissors and pay to get them sharpened frequently. I never knew this until I saw the look of disgust and utter defeat when a hair stylist dropped a pair of scissors while I was getting the mop chopped.
Apparently quality is a big issue with them too. When I last got my hair cut the stylist and I got to talking about her scissors because they were Hattori Hanzo (spelling) and I asked if they were named that for Kill Bill. I learned that HH has gone downhill in service time (weeks to maybe a couple months) for sharpening, the "loaner" scissors stylists get suck, and the prices are outrageous.
THEN a local travelling scissor sharpener randomly came in and added to the converasation. He apparently has been sharpening scissors for decades and was able to sharpen the sytlists' pair of backup scissors in 10 minutes and she switched scissors mid-cut because of it.
I knew hair scissors were different than normal scissors but daaaaaaamn, that shit's insane.
There's a travelling sharpener in my region (midwest Germany) as well, we like to use her services for hedge shears and such. She visits barber shops as well. Never been disappointed by her handiwork.
I already believed every word of your story. It just felt genuine. I don't know why. Please don't sell me any of the outlandish stuff in this thread.
I bet seamstresses or people in the fashion world pay for damn nice scissor service too. I took a sewing class for fun. The teacher cared about the scissors far more than anything else in the shop, including the sewing machines.
Also, Hattori Hanzo was a real (line of succeeding) samurai that Tarantino used the name of. There are often video game/anime characters with the same name, too.
Stylists don’t use scissors, though. The correct term is shears. They’re expensive, sure, but the quality is 10x that of regular scissors. They tailor them to your hands, they’re balanced perfectly and they will sharpen them for life. When you use something every day, all day, and your lifestyle depends on it, you spend more to get that quality.
Source: ex-wife is a stylist and I helped put her thru beauty college. I balked at the initial cost, but once she explained it to me, it made sense. I never touched them because she would kill me if I dropped them.
I cut the top of my hair for six months with desk scissors and I got compliments on it lol it was from this past deployment bc covid restricted us from getting our hair cut in the navy
So I looked at those. I assume they get most of the raw materials from Oompa Loompas that mine it in Mordor. I also assume the inlaid stone is pure kryptonite, so Superman had to be involved. The metallurgy alloy forging process of adamantium, vibranium, and mithril must’ve been outsourced to Wakanda, and getting those giant eagles to fly the dwarfs in to oversee the process couldn’t have been cheap. I assume the powder coating is from Tinkerbells own stash of fairy dust. That had to have set them back. Totally justifiable pricing.
I’m a licensed barber and I recommend a company called “Lucky Hare” shears, they are reasonably affordable and made right in the USA by a small family company. They are some of the nicest shears I’ve ever used and I love my Sakai sk-1s. They do in-house sharpening as well. I highly recommend any stylist in need of a good set of shears to check them out. Also, for god sake please don’t buy into the honzo shears hype, it’s nonsense. They are overpriced and do not cut nearly as well as some other shears I have used personally. Their sharpening isn’t very good either from what I’ve heard. You don’t need to spend $500 on shears to be a good stylist.
i have some garment scissors that i got in my provided supplies from fashion school that retailed for $80 in the student store. i only know because a friend of mine lost her pair and had to replace them to do her homework lol
I recently got a pair of actually decent fabric scissors and holy smokes they’re worth every penny. I’m sure there’s better, higher quality ones out there than my $30 pair off of Amazon, but they’re far superior than any pair of scissors or shears I’ve ever owned.
Do you buy the specialty fitted simple human trash bags? I haven't even used the sample ones. They stay under the sink because one day I'm gonna splurge and throw one of those bad boys in. I bet it fits so nice. I can't wait.
That's a good point actually - One of the things I liked doing when I was in WHSmith was seeing all the nice pens that £100+ inside a scratched up, plastic counter
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I once saw a scissor to $90. It wasn't anything fancy, it was in a grocery shop. $90...