Sharpening service?

[auk1124]

My wife has a stainless Oxo santoku that needs sharpened badly. I have a few water stones I could play with, but do not want to ruin this knife as it is her favorite.

Anyone know of someone who sharpens kitchen knives through the mail? Conus preferred, hate to spend a fortune on shipping for just one knife.

Thanks.

 

[Jim]

Contact Dave Martell at Japanese knife sharpening.

Make sure you let him know you are a B&B member.

 

[ouch]

Is it serrated?

 

[thebikingengineer]

Watch Ouch's sharpening videos, then give it a whirl on your stones. This is what I did with my mother's old chef's knife and though it was pretty slow going the result was a knife so sharp that she thanked me about 20 times. If the knife is already pretty dull you're not going to make it much worse, better to try it yourself and send it away only if you feel you can't bring it back on your own.

 

[_JP_]

Some grocery stores or butchers offer sharpening services. A local knife shop might be better.

 

[Matt S]

This thread reminds me of when I was growing up (80's) and there was an older gentlemen who would come around the neighborhood maybe once or twice a year and offered sharpening services for people's knives. He had a cart and would just go around the block.

With that said, I would guess it is a craft that may have fallen by the wayside these days.

 

[_JP_]

THere are sharpening services that cater to restaurants. What they generally is have two sets of knives and would simply swap them when they showed up. The knives were in the $10-$15 price range. They would then sharpen they set and swap them all again the next week.

We constantly battled with the sharpening services. They would grind down the knives to an unusable condition in just a few months. It was also a big problem getting them to leave the number of knives we needed. Usually it was because they din't collect them all on the previous visit. It finally got to the point where I had to sign off on it if they wanted to get paid.

 

[langod]

Contact Dave Martell at Japanese knife sharpening.

Make sure you let him know you are a B&B member.

2nd recommendation for Dave. He did a spectacular job on my favorite knife. Inexpensive and fast, too.