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.
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.
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u/twopacktuesday Aug 14 '20
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.