Bonika will host the NBTSG

We at Bonika Shears are excited about hosting the National Beauty Tools Sharpeners Guild founded by larry Brooks of SharpEdges. We have always been a supporter of the NBTSG from the beginning and will continue with only a few changes. This years' Guild convention will be September 22-24 in St. Louis.

Things that will remain the same

• Location - St. Louis in September at the same Renaissance Hotel
• Certification program conducted by Dennis Brooks much the same as in the past
• Variety of vendors with various machines and products
• Sharp Edges and Bonika Shears tables will continue to anchor the vendor room
• Up close sharpening demos will be made to small groups using various machines and various sharpening techniques
• The name will remain the same as will the logo with a few tweaks to the design. But you will often hear the NBTSG referred to as the Sharpenes Guild or just the "Guild"

Things that will change

• Reduction of price for the participants. The cost will be $150.00 per person for the two day event with an additional $50.00 voucher to be used with ANY of the vendors if you stay at the hotel.
• Increased vendor pariticpation. We have already heard from new vendors who are beginning to book tables at the 2012 Guild Convention.
• Groups rotating through the sharpening venues will be grouped by experience

Our Sunday evening entertianment will be a "Roast of Larry and Linda Brooks" as this patriarchial couple of the sharpening guilds retire from the industry. The dinner will be approxiamtely $42.00 each. come prepared to share your funiest Larry and Linda story.

We are looking for suggestions to improve the Guild. Please let us know. We may not be able to impliment them all this year but look to improve the guild each year. The guild will not be another Sharpeners Jam. It will be it's own entitiy. We expect the Sharpeners Jam to continue in Atlanta, GA each year and the Guild will become a complimentary but diffeent sharpeners convention. We see the Guild as a more open event with more competitive vendors so that sharpeners can freely and fairly compair sharpening equipment, products to sell and sharpening techniques and ideas. The Sharpeners Jam is more a Bonika sponsored event with an emphasis on sharing ideas amoung sharpeners.

Read the letter from the Brooks about the change over at the ISSA-news blog. http://www.issa-news.blogspot.com/