NATIONWIDE MAIL ORDER
SURGICAL SHARPENING SERVICE
-No minimum order size required-
The Sharpist is a master sharpening service in Denver, Colorado, and serving medical facilities in the broader United States with our mail order medical sharpening service.
To use our surgical sharpening service anywhere in the US:
- Pack fully sterilized instruments in enough packing material to reduce shifting in transit.
- Print and complete this form, and include it with your shipment.
- Ship to this address:
The Sharpist LLC
1275 Trenton Street
Denver, CO 80220
- Feel free to include a return shipping label if you'd prefer. Some of our customers, particularly those at larger medical facilities, find they are able to secure better corporate shipping rates than we, as a small firm, can. Whether or not to include a return-shipping label with your order is entirely up to you.
- Please
do not have the carrier require a signature for delivery.
- We will return-ship with the same priority with which an order was shipped to us. Put another way, if you overnight your order to us, we will overnight it back. If you choose to ship Standard Ground, we will also use Standard Ground.
- Turnaround on our end is 3 business days. Frequently orders are back out our door as soon as the next day, or even the same day, but 3 business days is what we ensure and advertise as a standard.
- When your completed order ships, we will email you a tracking number and a Net 30 invoice payable online with a card. Invoices arrive via Square Invoicing.
PRICING
Medical sharpening service includes sharpening, alignment, and tension adjustment (if applicable). The reason we provide price ranges here is because we cannot finalize pricing until we see instruments at our work bench, under magnification.
Pricing Overview:
- Mail orders only: no minimum order size. Customer pays only per-item sharpening costs, and shipping both ways.
- At a glance: handheld surgical instruments are $4-$25 apiece depending on their type and condition, with the vast majority falling in the $4-$12 apiece range.
More specifically:
- Biopsy forceps - $25 each
- Biopsy punch set - $18 and up
- Clipper blades - $11 each, and only as part of a larger order of surgical instruments, please.
- A note on clipper blades: we offer this service as an extension of our surgical instrument sharpening service. Our workshop is optimized to handle the clipper blades most commonly used in surgical settings. As such, our rig is not optimized to handle many larger pet grooming blades, and certainly not heavy duty livestock shearing blades. For those needs, we recommend contacting a certified Oster, Andis, Wahl, or other name brand service center.
- Dental scalers – $3-$6 depending on type and condition, with the majority being $3-$4
- Dental curettes - $4-$16
depending on type and condition, with the majority being $6-$8
- Drill bits (surgical only) - $4-$8 depending on type and condition, with most being $4.
- Orthopedic instruments - $6-$16 apiece depending on type and condition, with the vast majority being $6-$10 apiece
- Orthodontic instruments - $6-$16 apiece depending on type and condition, with the vast majority being $6-$12 apiece
- Osteotomes – $8-$12 for most. L-shaped or other specialty: $10-$25
- Precision and specialty surgical scissors - $6-$16 apiece depending on type and condition, with the vast majority being $8-$12 apiece
- Surgical guillotines - $50
- Trocar sets - $12 - $16, depending on type and condition, with most being $12.
- Various other handheld surgical - $8-$18, depending on type and condition
A note on questionable items:
Surgical instrument sharpening is extraordinarily delicate work, and we understand that it’s not always clear when gathering instruments whether they can or should be sharpened. We make that part easy: it is the policy of The Sharpist that any surgical instruments that cannot be sharpened will be returned free of charge. For this reason, it does not hurt to include even questionable instruments with your order.
We also provide, on request, a service summary after your surgical sharpening order is complete, including 100X magnified before and after photos of representative examples of your sharpened surgical instruments, both to demonstrate our work and for educational purposes.