Brief History
of the Rapid Edge System of Scissor Sharpening.
Going into scissor sharpening
was easy, but learning scissor sharpening took years. Honing my skills was
a journey. Sharpening scissors at first was like a blind man fumbling
around trying to find the light switch in an unfamiliar room. When I
started, there were maybe 3 people in the USA, who I knew sharpened
scissors. No one was telling me anything. I had to figure it out. Now I
teach scissor sharpening. And shear sharpening.
I built my first
scissor-sharpening machine by re-working a belt sander style-sharpening
machine used to sharpen knives. I must have done something right, because
I sharpened scissors on it for 17 years. I always knew I could do better
scissor sharpening but lacked a teacher and good scissor sharpening
equipment.
I learned
scissor sharpening
from companies like Joewell, Hikari and Buttercut. Joewell actually showed
me their scissor sharpening facility and taught me how they sharpened
scissors. Hikari scissor company never formally taught me scissor
sharpening, but in the early years were doing scissor sharpening openly at
the New York Beauty Show. It was only after several years of this open
scissor sharpening that they decided to block their scissor sharpening
from public view. They didn’t want to teach anyone a trade, which made
them good money. I have pretty good eyes and for 3 years, watched them as
much as I could.
Buttercut was a vendor of mine
and I was able to gleen many valuable scissor sharpening tips from the
owner while in phone conversation. He taught me a lot more about scissor
sharpening than he knew.
In 1997 I invented a
scissor-sharpening machine, which has now become the benchmark for all
other sharpening machine companies to beat. My scissor-sharpening machine
received a US patent for it’s uniqueness and has raised the bar in terms
of scissor sharpening quality.
There are probably 10 other
companies now competing for sales of scissor-sharpening machines. Rapid
Edge is a clear leader in the scissor sharpening business. There are over
100 companies now using my scissor sharpening equipment in both the
scissor manufacturing industry and the after market scissor sharpening
sector.
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