Kagawa’s Way of Sharpening, DHMS –
Technology That Delivers Superior Performance

The IIBOR engineering team, in conjunction with Kagawa’s engineers, decided to use the same DHMS sharpening technology approved for sharpening and servicing surgical instruments as well as military airfoils.  DHMS delivers zero heat to the blade, removes less than 0.0002” of blade (compared to the typical minimum of 0.05”), hones a specific profile on the blade (the Cryo425 profile that is certified to eliminate all damage to the hair), and places a mirror polished finish on the cutting edge.  Shears previously sharpened with grinding will remain sharp over 4 times longer after being sharpened with DHMS, they will cut smoother and feel buttery soft.  Typical sharpening takes less than a few minutes per shear where DHMS requires over 20 minutes per shear, so DHMS is more costly. Simply put, DHMS is an engineered technology designed to deliver precision results.

All Kagawa shears are sharpened with DHMS Sharpening Technology. With DHMS there is no grinding, no motors, no heat, no pressure placed on the cutting edge and finally no rapid dulling. Since it is slower than grinding it is more costly, but when the performance benefits are factored into the extended periods between sharpening the costs are far lower. Certainly, each stylist will make their individual choice, but for the over 500,000 currently using DHMS the answer is clear.

For those of you that do not have Kagawa shears, Kagawa is now accepting all brands of shears for DHMS sharpening, cutting edge alignment, Cryo425 profiling and blade setting. Correctly sharpening a shear is challenging, to be sure.  Requiring advanced equipment and training and it is not easily performed in a salon environment, though many try. We encourage stylists’ to read this information slowly and carefully. There is little question those who know the least about the subject will continue being the very ones trying to discredit the facts.  We invite stylists’ truly interested in understanding sharpening to attend one of our symposiums on the subject. In the symposiums we demonstrate actual conditions as well as show microscope images of the cutting edge and blades in action.

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