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My $150 mistake on a clipper sharpening service that wrecked my Kemeis
Sent my Kemei clippers to a mail-in sharpening place in Ohio about 2 months ago, paid $150 with shipping. Got them back and the blades were cutting uneven and pulling hair, never had that happen before. I think they overground the edges or messed up the angle, now I gotta replace the whole set. Anyone else had a bad experience with those mail-in sharpeners or am I just unlucky?
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singh.harper18d ago
Real talk, $150 for clipper sharpening is already on the high end. Most reputable mail-in shops charge around $40 to $60 for a full blade job, not a hundred and fifty. That price tag alone makes me wonder if you sent them to a place that specializes in something like barber shears or even industrial tools and they just used the wrong setup. Uneven cutting and pulling hair almost always means they took too much metal off one side or changed the blade angle, which is a common screwup when someone tries to sharpen clipper blades like they're scissors. A proper clipper sharpening should leave the blade cutting smooth and actually last longer than a new set of cheap blades, not wreck em after one use. You might've just found the one shop that doesn't know what they're doing with pet clippers specifically.
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Oh man, "cutting uneven and pulling hair" - that's basically the clipper version of a horror movie. For $150 you could have bought a whole new set of decent clippers and had money left over for a pizza. Sounds like they took a grinder to those blades and called it a day. I swear some of those mail-in places just hire anyone who owns a belt sander. Did you at least try to get your money back from them or did they ghost you?
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emmaking18d ago
Actually @abby_martinez I gotta push back a little here. For someone who clips dogs every day, spending $150 on a pro level sharpening job that keeps your clippers running like new for another year is way cheaper than buying a whole new set. Those mail in places might look dodgy but some of them have real knife and tool guys who know what they're doing, not just belt sander jockeys. And honestly, if the clippers were cutting perfect before and now they're junk after sharpening, that sounds more like a bad luck one off than proof the whole service is a scam.
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