About

DaddyRay and his two lovely daughters. Click on the picture to enlarge.

I started my career as a Custom Knife Maker. In 1975 a surgeon asked me to make a knife for him. Being Curious as to the development, he would stop by nearly every day to check on the progress. He was very interested in the process of making the knife from a piece of steel to the finished product.

He asked me if I could repair and sharpen some of his surgical tools at the LSU Medical School. LSU's Medical School is a teaching school here in Shreveport, La. They have a very large animal laboratory, which uses in addition to surgical instruments, a lot of animal clippers and blades. We naturally started sharpening the blades and making repairs on their animal clippers. This started us sharpening blades and repairing clippers for local veterinarians and from there to groomers. Through the Internet we have been sharpening blades and repairing clippers for groomers and veterinarians in every state in the union.

The snap on blades used by Laube, Oster, Wahl, Andis, etc. are all hollow ground at the factory and require a machine that will "hollow grind" to be re-sharpened satisfactorily. To "hollow grind" clipper blades requires a specialized, single use machine. In other words this machine will only do one job. This job is to sharpen hollow ground clipper blades. Most shops will not invest in a machine that will do only one job. And too, this machine is very expensive. My shop uses this type of machines. They are like the machines used in the factory to sharpen blades. They produce a precision hollow ground edge on the blades.

With our gauges, we measure the amount of steel left on the blade to be sharpened. Our machines remove the proper amount, by polishing the cutting edge with a very fine polishing powder, which leaves you many more sharpenings on the blades before you have to replace them. Also our machines sharpen both halves of the blade sets at the same time, which matches them to be used together. If you should break one of the blades in the set, we can put another blade on the machine with the original, polish them together and produce a matched set.

Master Sharpener Richard carefully assembles Blade Set after polishing operation.

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After sharpening the blades, we inspect the springs, blade guides and sockets and replace any worn, or broken parts. We then re-assemble and put the blade on a clipper and let them "burn in". This is to let them mate. After mating, we try them out on a rabbit pelt. If the blades successfully cut the fine rabbit hair, it will cut the finest hair or undercoat on any dog. Only after each blade passes each step successfully, do we return the blades to you. We will do your blade job within one week-day after receipt and return to you via Priority Mail.

To ship your blades/shears/clippers to us, you should wrap each blade in a paper towel, pack with crumpled newspaper in an appropriate size container. You can get free Priority Mail shipping containers from the US Post Office. Mail to the address below.

DaddyRay's At Keatchie
   9587 Hwy 5
   Keatchie, LA 71046
   Phone (318) 655-2052
email: richarg@bellsouth.net