Here are the ideas presented at the Sharpeners Jam. I've marked the ideas that had the most votes from the sharpeners.
I plan to have the DVD edited and ready by the end of Spetember. It will include the ideas that had the highest vote counts.
Also, by way of information. We will once again have the Sharpeners Jam at the same Country Inn and Suites. We talked to the management and have come up with ideas to make more room for vendors. We are negotiating for a better room rate and have already lined up classes and additional vendors for next year. We are looking for ideas on entertainment and things will be in place for another great year.br>
1. Billy Himes – use a leather wheel to polish. Thin plain leather, use contact cement on plate and stick it to a metal plate. Roll a bottle from center out to get all the air out. Trim around outside. Red rouge from Sears.
FOURTH PLACE 2. Bobby Harris – Post card coupons and business card coupons. 10 sharpenings get 1 free on back of business cards. Sharpen 1 get 1 half off on a postcard. Single digit return rate. 300 – 400 new customers’ mailings. VistaPrint.com
HONORABLE MENTION 3. Ken Buken – Insert ring trick. Put on a ring sizer and stretch with heat to expand a smaller insert to a larger size ring. $.99 harbor Freight oil funnel to stretch too small ring.
4. Ed Wozniak – If you have another qualified sharpener in your area, meet and set up boundaries to keep down overlap.
5. Jim Turner – Getting past the gatekeeper. When a customer dies or quits me, I try to replace them the same day. I ride around to the back of the shop and look for smokers. Signage is on the van and I get out with a pair of shears and introduce myself. Normally get business nearly everytime.
THIRD PLACE 6. Chad Gillihan – Band-aid holder. M&M Graphics. Get bright color. 500 about $.42 each. Give them out even if don’t sharpen. Give out free stuff. Put on table and walk out. Better than a business card. They keep them and don’t throw them away.
7. Joline Sawyer – For every $20.00 purchase they get a punch. After 10 punches they get $20.00 in additional purchases. Booster.com all tools to help increase your business.
8. Jean Campbell – Have a open house, free food, door prizes, send invitations have sharpening.
9. Steve Pailet – Keeping track of hair stylists. Software program downloads hair salons, groomers, etc. type in city or zipcode and pulls up everyone with address and phone number and put in a excel spread sheet. Save as file and imports into GPS on laptop. Helps look for business. Easier than a mapping program. Every two weeks yellowpages is purged for any business not paying for telephone service. Xshan.com is a Yellow pages crawler $150.00 then use any downloadable mapping program. Uses Streetmapsplus. (Also available on Blackberry yellowpage apps
10. Liza Zabaljac – Get pass the gatekeeper. SMILE. COMPLIMENT. (anything)
11. Larry Osborne – Flattening the stones. Use 320 clipper grit, an old towel, 3/8” tempered glass. Use to flatten waterstone. Afterwards wash thoroughly with water.
12. Fred Mueller – Cooler for carrying supplies. Lightweight, portable.
13. Ron Ellis – Use leather razor strop to do a final strop 2 – 3 times to remove that little bit of a bur that was not removed. Both sides, lightly. Also good on thinners to remove burs. Hang it on sharpening case. Don’t roll the edge.
14. Greg Dombrow – Snakeoil for oiling shears. TOP Tension, Oil & Pressure. Teach the stylist to lubricate the washers. Use for everything. Buy bottles and have them printed. Get oil from oil companies. Get Mineral Oil and own formula with enhanced with cloves, vitamin E, etc. (5 gallons mineral oil and 2 drops of cloves) 100’s of uses. “Say thanks to this little piece of metal… doesn’t it deserve a Thank You with Snake Oil?”
15. Chris Maholick – Prevent discolored tips by spraying both shears blade as well as pads with water.
16. Carol George – Keep up with scissor parts with dish with magnet in bottom. Bought at Harbor Freight. Remove screws over the metal dish.
17. Harry Megowan – Hangs open style case on sharpening work stand facing the stylists. That way stylists see his sells shears without him telling anyone.
SECOND PLACE 18. David Trissel – Put signs on vehicles to advertise business to make the vehicle 100% deductable. Sign can be as small as a bumper sticker.
19. Casper Kiser – change the perception of sharpeners. Don’t limit yourself to sharpening in your description of yourself. “Reconditioner,” “Technical Advisor,” Pitch ‘I am a distributor of shears…. By the way I recondition shears back to factory specifications.”
20. Larry Siraco – Keep coming to the shows. Connections allow you to jump over hurdles that you might spend a lifetime learning. Learn how to do it right you’ll benefit greatly.
21. Travis Jones – Use payroll deductions to sell shears and sharpening for chains.
22. Rob Morrison – Use twitter. Put it on your card.
23. Chuck Bigelow – Work the small towns! Everybody in a small time has money and checks don’t bounce. Some areas have never seen a sharpener for 3 to 4 years. Good parking.
24. Bill Hall – Teeth blade in inexpensive thinners the teeth blade cuts into the solid blade. Polish edge of teeth at the back of the blade on machine and ramp to knock some of bur off the tooth. This will ramp only that back section where the teeth catch.
25. Bill Hall – Nipper Sharpening. Fix tips with a triangle Gorbet Jewelers File and remove the bur. Redo tip and reshape tip on the flathone. Do not remove much metal. Use a fine file.
FIRST PLACE 26. Jim Turner – Red Neck Hone Stone for sharpening the ride or hone of curved shears.
27. Billy Hime – Knife sharpening. Move knife in direction away from the edge on a hone at a 20 degree angle. Then use a leather strop. Use canvas side to remove bur and polish. Final polish on leather. Have leather strop on something solid. Pick it straight up, don’t roll the edge. If you hear the scrape the edge has been knocked off. Works same when working on shears. Keep it perfectly flat.
28. Chad Gillihan – Rome, GA is a place to sharpen. Watch the DVD’s especially Ron Ellis and Ed Wozniak marketing DVD’s.
29. Chad Gillihan - BreatheHealthy.com cute cloth masks all colors.
30. Chad Gillihan – Business card holders to stick on your vehicle. The Card Caddy. $15.00 plus window hanger extra $5.00. Get these from Chad 985-710-6777. 7 different colors.
31. Larry Osbourne – Test on real hair. Checks for pushing, folding or crunching hair. Will now be more diligent to realign shears after the Hollow and Hone Class with Casper Kiser. Look for epiphany moments to give your business a quantum leap. Get hair from shops.
32. Jeanette Williamson – when you have hair for testing put rubber bands on each end so the hair will not tangle up into a ball. Be sure the hair is dry. Also keep the deer at bay from your garden with human hair.
33. Andrew Beard – Sometimes shears pick up magnetism and it can cause a little grittiness. Check by moving across a box of straight pens and see if they move. Get a magnetizer / de magnetizer for tools or use clipper demagnetizer to demagnetize shears. Heritage scissors and other groomer scissors tend to do this. They will go dull quickly after sharpening if the scissors are magnetized. Tell them not to use the magnet scissor holder.
34. Bobby Harris – Graded Corrugation Groomer shears that push hair can be fixed by sharpening at a 30 degree angle on a 60 micron lightly on one side, (the finger blade or bottom blade that does not move if you cut thumb down), to create a “micro serration” to stop the hair from pushing. New term “Graded Corrugation” rather than micro serration for this technique. Allows to sell this service to barbers by using this term. Remove the bur by pushing blades apart and opening with pressure at 1/3rd blade at a time … back third, middle third and front third. Use on bevel or convex edge shear.
35. Larry Siraco – Handling complaints about a nick after sharpening. Give the customer a way out without calling them a liar when you KNOW you did not leave a nick. Suggest to them maybe one of their clients dropped them.
36. Larry Siraco – Tips don’t meet and you can’t bend the handle. If you grind the handle down there is overheating – Muriatic Acid or Plumbers Acid – will remove the burnt spot. One drop and put immediately into water. (wear gloves) Like magic. Before you grind take the insert out or it will melt. Also, can remove the bumper and grind down then replace bumper. This is the optimum side.
37. Ed Wozniak – Print up $25 gift certificates for students who are graduating from Beauty Schools. Gets you into new salons.
38. Ed Wozniak – Tupperware concept. Sharpen knives at a private home and have them invite neighbors for knife sharpening while the neighbors visit.
39. Ken Buken – gives director of school 1 free sharpening at the salon.
40. Ken Buken – Magic foam for backing on convexing plate. Harbour Freight spray adhesive. Spray plate and put plate on foam and trim foam wide enough so no metal is exposed on edges.
41. Greg Dunbrow – Salon Underground. Secret Society of salon specialists dedicated ….Agent # (see card)
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