A decent sharpening where I am at (Northern Indiana) is $1 per blade inch at
the shop. I don't like strangers coming to the house, so these guys that
come to you I don't bother with.


"Eddie" wrote in message
...
As the holidays get closer, I figured I'd better get the kitchen
knives sharpened. I haven't sharpened knives in years!

I called a couple places and they want $6.50 per knife regardless of
size. One wants $85 min. if they come to the house.

Another shop had a price of $5.00 for large and $3.00 for small.

Both sound a little high for me. I have about 10-15 with most
considered large that I'd like sharpened. So I might end up just
getting one large sharpened and use it for the next couple months.
Should stay sharp I hope.

l know nothing of store sharpeners, such as type, price, etc.
Any other suggestions?

I'm in the San Jose area
Eddie

In article , Eddie
wrote:

As the holidays get closer, I figured I'd better get the kitchen
knives sharpened. I haven't sharpened knives in years!

I called a couple places and they want $6.50 per knife regardless of
size. One wants $85 min. if they come to the house.

Another shop had a price of $5.00 for large and $3.00 for small.

Both sound a little high for me. I have about 10-15 with most
considered large that I'd like sharpened. So I might end up just
getting one large sharpened and use it for the next couple months.
Should stay sharp I hope.

l know nothing of store sharpeners, such as type, price, etc.
Any other suggestions?

I'm in the San Jose area
Eddie

Last time I had my knives sharpened was at Eversharp, NE Taft in
Minneapolis.

$0.99 per knife. Guy said they have this special price on sharpening a
couple of times per month.

It's a promotional thing... they sell knives there too. Gets people
into the store.

And I was delighted with the quality of work the guy did on my Henckels
and Sabbatier knives.

--
Jack

Eddie wrote:

As the holidays get closer, I figured I'd better get the kitchen
knives sharpened. I haven't sharpened knives in years!

I called a couple places and they want $6.50 per knife regardless of
size. One wants $85 min. if they come to the house.

Another shop had a price of $5.00 for large and $3.00 for small.

Both sound a little high for me. I have about 10-15 with most
considered large that I'd like sharpened. So I might end up just
getting one large sharpened and use it for the next couple months.
Should stay sharp I hope.

l know nothing of store sharpeners, such as type, price, etc.
Any other suggestions?

I'm in the San Jose area

I only know of the knife sharpening service periodically provided at
Cooking Etc. in Willow Glen (Lincoln at Minnesota). They'll be there
this weekend and next. Call 279-4631 for pricing.

As far as home use, we use a cheap, handheld Chef's Choice sharpener.

--
Aloha,

Nathan Lau
San Jose, CA

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Eddie wrote:
As the holidays get closer, I figured I'd better get the kitchen
knives sharpened. I haven't sharpened knives in years!

I called a couple places and they want $6.50 per knife regardless of
size. One wants $85 min. if they come to the house.

Another shop had a price of $5.00 for large and $3.00 for small.

Both sound a little high for me. I have about 10-15 with most
considered large that I'd like sharpened. So I might end up just
getting one large sharpened and use it for the next couple months.
Should stay sharp I hope.

l know nothing of store sharpeners, such as type, price, etc.
Any other suggestions?


Dude, $6.50 to produce a sharp knife from a piece of shit is *more* than
reasonable.

Eddie, you're a tight-ass. These folks make a living doing this. Evidently
they do a good job of it, or they wouldn't be in business.

Do you really want to pay them McDonalds wages so you can use their skills
to prepare gourmet food?

Check the prices on new knives. Their resharpening prices are nonexistent
compared to new.

If you had the mad skillz to sharpen them yourself, then you would have the
room to bitch. As it stands, you're a tight ass.

TFM®

"Eddie" wrote in message
...
As the holidays get closer, I figured I'd better get the kitchen
knives sharpened. I haven't sharpened knives in years!

I called a couple places and they want $6.50 per knife regardless of
size. One wants $85 min. if they come to the house.

Another shop had a price of $5.00 for large and $3.00 for small.

Both sound a little high for me. I have about 10-15 with most
considered large that I'd like sharpened. So I might end up just
getting one large sharpened and use it for the next couple months.
Should stay sharp I hope.

l know nothing of store sharpeners, such as type, price, etc.
Any other suggestions?

I'm in the San Jose area
Eddie


We charge $2 a knife at Nella, but then we're in Seattle.
By the time you pay for the flight it might come to a bit more that 6.50 a
knife. Just a thought.
www.nella.com

--
Fosco Gamgee Whitfurrows
and his 6" boner

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 00:59:08 GMT, "Brian and Maryann"
wrote:

A decent sharpening where I am at (Northern Indiana) is $1 per blade inch at
the shop. I don't like strangers coming to the house, so these guys that
come to you I don't bother with.


I'm in South Bend, where are you from?

Bruce

"Eddie" wrote in message
...
As the holidays get closer, I figured I'd better get the kitchen
knives sharpened. I haven't sharpened knives in years!

I called a couple places and they want $6.50 per knife regardless of
size. One wants $85 min. if they come to the house.

Another shop had a price of $5.00 for large and $3.00 for small.

Both sound a little high for me. I have about 10-15 with most
considered large that I'd like sharpened. So I might end up just
getting one large sharpened and use it for the next couple months.
Should stay sharp I hope.

l know nothing of store sharpeners, such as type, price, etc.
Any other suggestions?

I'm in the San Jose area
Eddie

Lazy sh*t sack! Sharpen them yourself!!!




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"Eddie" wrote in message
l know nothing of store sharpeners, such as type, price, etc.
Any other suggestions?


www.leevalley.com Many sharpening systems. I have the Gatco with four
stones. Works well.

I use a Lansky and am quite happy with it. There are others similar to it
and others different from it. All work well if you are careful and follow
instructions.

If you don't want to do it yourself, you can take a flyer and call a machine
shop or wood working shop and ask them where they get their saws and cutters
sharpened. I used to go to a place in NYC named Kotchendorfer, down in
SOHO, and they did a perfect job very reasonably. The only problem was you
had to stand in the shop while the guys sharpened the knives and saws, and
there was a lot of oil spray, smoke and other stuff in the air. Kinda
reminded me of being back in the old production department.

Sharpening is really nothing more than removing metal to form a
predetermined, consistent angle and then polishing the surface that has been
worked.

Barry


"Eddie" wrote in message
...
As the holidays get closer, I figured I'd better get the kitchen
knives sharpened. I haven't sharpened knives in years!

I called a couple places and they want $6.50 per knife regardless of
size. One wants $85 min. if they come to the house.

Another shop had a price of $5.00 for large and $3.00 for small.

Both sound a little high for me. I have about 10-15 with most
considered large that I'd like sharpened. So I might end up just
getting one large sharpened and use it for the next couple months.
Should stay sharp I hope.

l know nothing of store sharpeners, such as type, price, etc.
Any other suggestions?

I'm in the San Jose area
Eddie

What a bunch of hypocrites! I got flamed for being "off-topic" when I
present an alternate way of cooking ribs. "This newsgroup is only for
discussions of cooking meat over an open flame" the hypocrites said.
But when a discussion of knife sharpening comes along, not a peep.

Hypocrites!

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"Another Wise Guy - Macon, GA USA" wrote in
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What a bunch of hypocrites! I got flamed for being "off-topic" when I
present an alternate way of cooking ribs. "This newsgroup is only for
discussions of cooking meat over an open flame" the hypocrites said.
But when a discussion of knife sharpening comes along, not a peep.

Hypocrites!

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"Another Wise Guy - Macon, GA USA"
wrote in message ...

What a bunch of hypocrites! I got flamed for being "off-topic" when I
present an alternate way of cooking ribs. "This newsgroup is only for
discussions of cooking meat over an open flame" the hypocrites said.
But when a discussion of knife sharpening comes along, not a peep.

Hypocrites!

**** off, Wipe ass!

--
Fosco Gamgee Whitfurrows
and his 6" boner
with apologies to BOB

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 07:21:05 +0000, "Another Wise Guy - Macon, GA USA"
wrote:

Hypocrites!

You certainly are, and a liar, too.

Message-ID:
Hi! I am 'Another Wise Guy - Macon, GA USA' and I am here to say that
I have had it up to here with you jew-hating racists. Why don't you stick
to your own newsgroups instead of filling every newsgroup with your shit?
Go **** yourself, then eat shit and die.
Or you can visit Macon and I will kill you myself.

Message-ID:
What kind of rig do you use?

Modified WSM. I have it instrumented to measure temperature at several
points (inside the meat, outside the meat, above the fire, in the middle
of the fire humidity, opacity (smoke density), and pan water level.
I have a computer that controls motorized dampers on the top, a fan
on the bottom, auto refill of the pan, and a light water mister that
sprays directly on the fire. I also have an electric element, but it
usually stays turned off.


--
Kevin S. Wilson
Tech Writer at a University Somewhere in Idaho
"Anything, when cooked in large enough batches, will be vile."
--Dag Right-square-bracket-gren, in alt.religion.kibology

"Eddie" wrote in message
...
As the holidays get closer, I figured I'd better get the kitchen
knives sharpened. I haven't sharpened knives in years!

I called a couple places and they want $6.50 per knife regardless of
size. One wants $85 min. if they come to the house.

snip

Call some of your major hardware chains. Ace Hardware here in
Tampa sharpens knives for about $1.50 each. They have impressive
looking equipment, but I wasn't overly impressed with the results on
my steak knives. I have tried several sharpening systems particularly
stones, but including the Chef's Choice electric. I currently use just
a
(diamond) steel. My knives are cheap (Chicago Cutlery), but
extremely sharp.

Brick(Masta Couch Bouncer)

"Eddie" wrote in message
...
As the holidays get closer, I figured I'd better get the kitchen
knives sharpened. I haven't sharpened knives in years!
I'm in the San Jose area
Eddie


Eddie:

I suggest you check out your local restaurant supply houses. My local
(Walnut Creek, CA) restaurant supply sharpens knives for $2.00 (and sells
40# of Lazzari lump for $12.83). Lots of cool restaurant type stuff in
there, too. Eddie, if you ever drive up 680, it's easy to get to.

James