Get your Scissor Pouch 
- Individualised / Personalised (to your requirements)
- Stitching Colour Options
- Genuine Leather in a range of different Qualities
- Choices of Colour Leather Options
- Lined or not
- Zipped Inner Bag
- Name Tag
- Steel Buckles or Plastic Clips 
- Over the Shoulder or around the Waist
- Comb, Clips, and Scissor holders
- 100% NZ made
- Starting Price for the basic bag: $200.00 
The one in the photo below is $250

A Sharper Blade is Proud to be New Zealand's Agent for Excellent Edges

Excellent Edges – the story of Australia's Master Scissor Bladesmiths.

Based in Melbourne, Australia, Excellent Edges is the largest world-class hairdressing scissor manufacturer, importer, exporter, and service centre in Australia.
Our customers worldwide demand absolute perfection in their tools, and we provide the service they require.
We manufacture a range of top-quality hairdressing scissors. We can also custom-make scissors for hairdressers, including those with special needs.
With the largest range of left-handed haircutting tools in the world, our dedication to providing the Hair industry with a complete range of quality products and services for right-handed cutters and left-handed cutters has given us our world-renowned reputation as a valuable supplier for the haircutting industry.
We also import a full range of top-quality scissors and a large range of haircutting accessories. Most of our imports are famous brand names, known for their quality: Fuji, Hikari, and Yamato, to name a few. Our imports come from Japan and Korea, and every single pair of scissors is checked and tested by our own Master Bladesmiths.
We also export the full range of our imported and manufactured products.
From various locations in Australia and around the world, we wholesale and retail our full range of imported and manufactured products to distributors throughout Australia and abroad.
Additionally, we service all the products that we sell. Our Scissor sharpening and repairs services are the absolute finest, with the highest possible standards being implemented by our Master Bladesmiths.

Our Philosophy
Our philosophy is simple: Of the entire World's scissors, we choose the highest quality products. We don't do it just for our customers' sake. We also do it for ourselves. We enjoy working with quality.
We know that (in the long run) good quality hair scissors will cost a hairdresser less, will be easier on the hands, will help make good cuts quicker, and are just nicer to use.

Our History
For more than 1000 years, the Blade Smithing world has known that the Japanese (with their long tradition of Samurai swords) are the World's finest Bladesmiths and metal workers.
Hairdressing scissors have become the swords of modern times.
Tim Payne, BSc Hons, is currently the only Westerner who has fully learned the art of Japanese hair scissor Blade smithing. In 1973, his 10 years of training in Japan included working with renowned Japanese master Bladesmiths.
Tim came to Australia and started Excellent Edges in 1987. The company has grown consistently to become the largest, oldest, and most respected firm of its kind in the country. It now has operations in many countries throughout the world, including New Zealand, with 
A Sharper Blade Ltd.
Excellent Edges has achieved this respect because of quality products, top service, and always has honourable dealings with its customers.
Our long-term direct face-to-face close relationship with so many of Japan's top scissor manufacturers means that we have the widest range of spare parts, the latest models of new scissors, and the finest raw metals to manufacture from.
Excellent Edges is now in its 30th year of operation and continues to grow and develop to stay ahead in the market. With two factories located in Morwell dedicated solely to the manufacture of scissors and another two factories in Ringwood, which deal with the finishing stages of manufacturing and the servicing of scissors, we pride ourselves on being innovators in our industry.
Tim Payne, founder of Excellent Edges – the story

What are the differences between a Mobile Sharpener and a Workshop-based Sharpener? 


It is with respect that I offer this information to the owners of hairdressing scissors who read this information about the differences between a “Mobile Sharpener” and a “Workshop-based Sharpener”. 

There are many aspects to a Hairdressing scissor that stylists don’t understand (or need to know unless you want to sharpen). There is no doubt you know how to drive them, but it’s the mechanics of a scissor that makes it feel and perform.

Unless you have had the training to do with sharpening and manufacturing of a scissor, it’s something that most stylists probably don’t know (or need to know about) and also because the “Scissor Industry” is full of secrets that aren’t shared, mainly because one brand of scissor manufacture doesn’t want their opposition to find out what it is that gives their brand the edge on their competitor, they’re just not told everything there is to know. 
Not only this........you also need to be approved and accepted by one of the following people to train you on how to sharpen a pair of scissors.

1. Someone who understands the makings of a pair of scissors like a Scissor Manufacturer. 
2. Scissor Sharpening Machine Manufacture (like in the USA), which is where most sharpening machines are made in the world. 
Once you have established a connection and have been accepted by them, it will (in most cases) cost tens of thousands of dollars just to learn and buy the necessary equipment needed to start. 
So, as you can see, unless you are financially well enough to invest and committed to knowing how to sharpen, it’s probably beyond most people’s desire. 


Therefore, I liken this Relationship / Partnership between a Stylist and their Sharpener to a high-performance A1 racing car driver and his mechanic who win all their races as a team that works together. 
The mechanic does not tell the driver what speed he/she needs to go at, to safely travel the corners with the tyres he has on his vehicle, nor would I tell the hairdresser how to create a style they want to create and the techniques they need to use..........the mechanic advises the driver he/she needs this certain type of slick tyre, so then he/she can, depending on wet or dry weather conditions can travel at the optimum speed with this type of tyre..........Like I would suggest to the stylist, he/she needs a Bevel Edge if they want to Blunt cut and a Clamshell Edge if they want to slice with their scissor. Together as a team that respects each other’s abilities and craft......will win every race. 


Also, if you don’t have the necessary sharpening training, as we all know, you truly can destroy a pair of scissors in one sharpen, and nobody wants that. So, it’s here where I explain the difference between a workshop and a mobile sharpener.

Yes, the Mobile Sharpeners are convenient, but if you have paid hundreds and hundreds of dollars (and in many cases a thousand plus dollars or more) for a pair of scissors, is convenience the BEST OPTION? 
OK, you’re not without your scissors for very long, and in some cases only 10 minutes, they probably come back with a sharp edge and probably will most times work for you...........BUT, and here’s where the Edge Revival difference is: 

  
1.  Most Mobile Sharpeners will NOT have scissor manufactures “Sett Blocks”. This is a critical piece of equipment that's supplied by a scissor manufacturer and is not something you can just go out and buy from a shop. 
So when your scissors are “out of sett “ (possibly because they have been dropped), or depending on the brand, it’s just how they are when leave the factory (cheap is not good), the mobile sharpener will not attempt to repair this important step when sharpening in his van "out of fear and lack of training"...........purely because you run the risk of breaking a scissor attempting to correct sett issues. If this fault is NOT corrected in the Sharpening process, they still will not perform like they should. A sharp edge will purely disguise the sett problem, but eventually, (and depending on the severity, possibly immediately) it will show again...........just because it hasn’t been taken out of the problem in the first place. So don’t think for a minute that a sharp edge has fixed your sett issue.    

2.  A mobile sharpeners machinery, because of the way they have been built and designed to work, will only create a bevel edge, whether it’s a buffed bevel edge or not. It's a hand-eye coordination skill on different types of machinery to create a true manufacturer's Clamshell edge, and it’s this edge type that gives “optimum performance” for you to be able to use your scissors when you want to slice with it.
Something only a scissor manufacturer will know how to do because they make their scissors to perform like this, giving you more options when you’re using them.   

3.   It doesn’t take 10 – 15 minutes to sharpen a pair of scissors, and if it does, is this really the best for your scissors? 
It takes a workshop-based sharpener like me at least 45 minutes (minimum) to complete the full process for sharpening one pair of Blades.

4.  Were your scissors made in the back of a van? That’s like taking your A1 formula racing car, that you win races in, to the local Petrol Station / Garage to have a service and tune-up.  

5.  As a workshop-based Sharpener, I also sterilize and ultrasonically clean every single piece of the scissor. You would be surprised at what lies under your finger inserts.

6.  I'm very passionate about what I do and the Advice I give. 
This isn't just a job or a money-making venture to me, sharpening is an Artwork and a Passion that gives me Unlimited Satisfaction to be able to Service and Offer you (the stylist) a tool that Performs and Promotes you to the heights needed to be at the top of your game. 
So, if you’re the owner of a pair of scissors that uses a mobile sharpener, why not try me and see if you can tell the difference, because it's not just an edge revival to sharpen a pair of scissors...........there are many more aspects to a pair of scissors than just its edge.