Sharpening Schools and Sharp N Shops In Las Vegas and Ohio Coming SOON!

• Announcing:
  Shear Sharpening Schools in Las Vegas and Ohio
  
  $300.00 ($400.00 at the door) Bring your flathone system or purchase the Scimech there. (Let us know if you plan to purchase)Learn to sharpen a convex and a bevel edge shear. Perfect for both the beginner and skilled sharpeners. Does not include any additional supplies, but it is suggested that you purchase and view the Sharpening 101 5 DVD Set or at least the Sharpen Faster and Easier before coming to enhance your experience. Taught by Bonnie Megowan of Bonika Shears. This will not be as comprehensive as our private full day class.
  Las Vegas School Held at the Candlewood Suites, 4034 Paradise Rd, Las Vegas 8:30 - 1PM
  Ohio School Held at Comfort Inn 4870 Old Rathmell Court, Obetz, OH, 43207 (south of Columbus, OH) 1PM - 4:30PM
  
• Las Vegas Clipper Blade Sharpening School
  
  Sharpening School starts at 8:30AM Limit 3 to a class (1 space left) Taught by Harry Megowan. Includes certificate of completion and clipper blade sharpening DVD. (DVD will be sent before class when you register) $300.00 or $400.00 at the door.LV Clipper Blade Sharpening School Held at the Candlewood Suites, 4034 Paradise Rd, Las Vegas
  
  
• FREE Las Vegas Sharp N Shop 10Am - Noon Hosted by Bonika Shears. Candlewood and Suites Meeting Room 4034 Paradise Rd., Las VegasOpen House type format.
  Meet other sharpeners
  See sharpening demonstrations
  Shop for shears
  Browse for sharpening supplies
  Try out sharpening equipment
  Get your questions answeredNo Charge. Register by calling 770-263-7004, replying to this email or go to the website link.
• FREE Ohio Sharp N Shop FRIDAY October 1, 9AM - 1PMCome Join Gene and Bonnie Megowan of Bonika Shears for the Ohio Sharp & Shop.
  Comfort Inn Meeting Room4870 Old Rathmell Court Obetz, OH, 43207 (south of Columbus, OH)
  Meet other sharpeners
  See sharpening demonstrations
  Shop for shears
  Browse for sharpening supplies
  Try out sharpening equipment
  Get your questions answered This will be small, informal gathering, open house style. Let us know if you are coming by responding to this email, on the website or calling 1-888-290-3393.Call the hotel directly at (614) 492-9000 for special Bonika Shears room rates of $50.00 per night.Other private sharpening training available in this area September 30. Please email us at sales@bonika.com or call 1-888-290-3393 for information.
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  Other Don't Miss Sharpening Events that Bonika will be attending
  National Beauty Tools Sharpeners Guild September 26-28, St. Louis, MO
  Kuda Certification Oct. 23-24, Richmond, VA
  Cuttin Loose Educational Cruise January 16, 2011 7 Days
  Sharpeners Jam Atlanta July 23-25, 2011

Las Vegas International Hair Show Update

The 2009 IBS Las Vegas Show was up around 5% over last year. Sharpening sharply increased (no pun intended) and shear sales were up. Sales of combs, razors and misc was down, but primarily because we sold out of our most popular items at the Premiere Orlando Show.

Nikita Smith's haircutting class was full. I uploaded the photos as promised to the slide show on the left of this page. You can also access the photos at http://picasaweb.google.com/bonika/LasVegasInternationalBeautyShowJune2009?feat=directlink

We trained 3 sharpeners while here, two by me and one by Tim Lau. New trainees were from New Mexico, Washington and Hawaii.

Las Vegas International Beauty Show

Here are some pictures from the show. Karen Showen sharpened for us and had people bring back additional shears after they tried out their shears. Nikita Smith cut my hair in class. She kept a room of 200+ enthralled for the full 90 minutes of class. Our best selling shears were the short curve, the Fishbone, our new T25 and T14. We are pretty tired and look forward to the flight home tomorrow. We miss our grandbabies. I will post the diagrams to Nikita's haircut on the website as soon as I get home. They are part of the slideshow here.

I sold a Twister Sister at the show to a gentleman from South Africa. Imagine his surprise when I told him we had a Bonika warranty center right there in his country and someone there who could sharpen them correctly. Unfortunately we couldn't say that to the lady from Guatemala. Maybe next year we will have a sharpener there. We plan to add a Spanish speaking country as a warranty center in October.

This was one of the loudest shows we have been in. The volume level was overwhelming. I think it affected our sales by 30%. We still did well enough we will be back next year.