Knife Sharpening - opinions

[deerly departed]

Well you are correct knife sharpening is not on dsc but neither is zeroing your rifle but perhaps you could send that off for someone else to do.

I have zeroed rifles for.many people as it happens ..........

 

[Bowland blades]

No, not everything.
I just can’t picture a hunter who isn’t able to sharpen a blade himself, one way or another.

The ones who truly can are a small minority, butchers generally have a guy come round to do thiers . Plenty think they can , some of them actually can lol

 

[Bowland blades]

Some people find it a really difficult or impossible skill to master, and would rather send it off to hve it sharpened. I can understand for some that their time is more valuable than money (ie the time they would possibly expend on learning to sharpen knives would cost them more than having it sharpened professionally).

A pro will remove very much less metal ( extending the knifes life ) and should also get a knife a lot sharper
As a ste elsewhere pro butchers genralky have a guy in to do thiers regular . The butcher just re aligns the edge and polishes with the steel

 

[deerly departed]

A steel can also do more harm than good imho if not used correctly. Savernake critise some of the flashy TV chefs for flashing their knives like Zoro on Speed... especially Ramsay.... it should be slow deliberate measured strokes.....

 

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[Fadcode]

I sharpen my own products foc . Good luck in your venture 99% of sharpening jobs I get are customer screw ups , I all seriousness good knives can get through 50 or more deer if the user isn't doing heads and legs . In reality that's decades of stalking for most " sportsmen "
It's definitely not a case of sharpening a mearly dulled blade it's folks having a go and bluntening already sharp knives .
There is a market but its tough to promise a particular angle with the stuff you will inevitably sent . Postage wise rmsd is the best but it costs more than the work, protect yourself legally from the knife laws regards age etc and expect to receive inadequately packaged knives , perhaps sending out a proper tube ? But it all adds to what you end up charging
Legalities need covering because sending knives is frought with liability over age

Must agree RMSD is the best option.

 

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Regarding AGE, the law refers to selling knives regarding age, as this is repairing them and not actually selling them, the age would not be a factor.
The law regarding knives state that it is an offence to sell, lend, or give a knife to someone under the age of 18, (unless its a non locking knife with a blade more than 3 inches long), it doesn't cover the repair of knives. there is no lower age limit on owning a knife, of course there is nothing wrong with verifying the customers age if it makes you feel better, although this isn't necessary also funny enough although it is illegal to sell a knife to someone under 18, it isn't an offence for someone under 18 to actually buy a knife. (albeit it hard to do )

When i used to do knife making and repair etc, I originally used to send before and after photo's of the knife edges using micro photography, but i stopped doing this, as the microscopic photos would show too much detail of the edge, and they always looked serrated when the pic was taken with a microscope on high magnification, (see your first pic) as they showed too much of the fine detail.
Another thing I used to do was to send a printed copy of the Basic Knife Laws regarding carrying a knife in public, although i am sure the members on here are well aware of these .

Also a lot of carriers will not carry knives, Royal Mail will, Parcel Force will not, for example, so care of the choice of carrier is important especially for knives of high value, make sure you check their T&C's another important thing is, if you label knives as , cutlery, tools etc, when putting in a claim some carriers ask for the receipt when bought, in order to verify the worth of the item, and you may have a job convincing them an item of cutlery is worth £3-400. And if you need to ask the owner for the receipt for the knife, you will then have to explain why you made a false statement about the item, and this of course gives the the right not to pay you out, using the post can be very tricky. Most of the knives I used to make were Bushcraft Knives and I used to mark them as woodcarving tools, and I only lost one in the post (RMSD) I used Ray Mears Book, which described the Woodlore as a carving tool, and they paid me out the £300 I claimed off them.
I couldn't understand the offer to put certain angles on the blade, as the thickness of the blade and the height of the grind determines the angle.

Good luck on your venture.

 

[Bowland blades]

Regarding AGE, the law refers to selling knives regarding age, as this is repairing them and not actually selling them, the age would not be a factor.
The law regarding knives state that it is an offence to sell, lend, or give a knife to someone under the age of 18, (unless its a non locking knife with a blade more than 3 inches long), it doesn't cover the repair of knives. there is no lower age limit on owning a knife, of course there is nothing wrong with verifying the customers age if it makes you feel better, although this isn't necessary also funny enough although it is illegal to sell a knife to someone under 18, it isn't an offence for someone under 18 to actually buy a knife. (albeit it hard to do )

When i used to do knife making and repair etc, I originally used to send before and after photo's of the knife edges using micro photography, but i stopped doing this, as the microscopic photos would show too much detail of the edge, and they always looked serrated when the pic was taken with a microscope on high magnification, (see your first pic) as they showed too much of the fine detail.
Another thing I used to do was to send a printed copy of the Basic Knife Laws regarding carrying a knife in public, although i am sure the members on here are well aware of these .

Also a lot of carriers will not carry knives, Royal Mail will, Parcel Force will not, for example, so care of the choice of carrier is important especially for knives of high value, make sure you check their T&C's another important thing is, if you label knives as , cutlery, tools etc, when putting in a claim some carriers ask for the receipt when bought, in order to verify the worth of the item, and you may have a job convincing them an item of cutlery is worth £3-400. And if you need to ask the owner for the receipt for the knife, you will then have to explain why you made a false statement about the item, and this of course gives the the right not to pay you out, using the post can be very tricky. Most of the knives I used to make were Bushcraft Knives and I used to mark them as woodcarving tools, and I only lost one in the post (RMSD) I used Ray Mears Book, which described the Woodlore as a carving tool, and they paid me out the £300 I claimed off them.
I couldn't understand the offer to put certain angles on the blade, as the thickness of the blade and the height of the grind determines the angle.

Good luck on your venture.

Knives are cutlery, a cutler makes knives it can be found in any dictionary. Knifemaker is what ? There are commercial blades in machinery that are termed knives . Chances of riyal mail loosing a special delivery next day parcel are remote sent hundreds never had Royal mail SD fail . Early days I used Hermes but although some staff like the lady who used to collect here are pure diamonds , Unfortunately some where compleate plonkers . Stopped using them when a guy could not find I knife they told me was delivered ( it turned up thrown into a high sided trailer on his yard with no note or nothing ) pure luck he decided to use the trailer and phoned me immediately

 

[Bowland blades]

Regarding AGE, the law refers to selling knives regarding age, as this is repairing them and not actually selling them, the age would not be a factor.
The law regarding knives state that it is an offence to sell, lend, or give a knife to someone under the age of 18, (unless its a non locking knife with a blade more than 3 inches long), it doesn't cover the repair of knives. there is no lower age limit on owning a knife, of course there is nothing wrong with verifying the customers age if it makes you feel better, although this isn't necessary also funny enough although it is illegal to sell a knife to someone under 18, it isn't an offence for someone under 18 to actually buy a knife. (albeit it hard to do )

When i used to do knife making and repair etc, I originally used to send before and after photo's of the knife edges using micro photography, but i stopped doing this, as the microscopic photos would show too much detail of the edge, and they always looked serrated when the pic was taken with a microscope on high magnification, (see your first pic) as they showed too much of the fine detail.
Another thing I used to do was to send a printed copy of the Basic Knife Laws regarding carrying a knife in public, although i am sure the members on here are well aware of these .

Also a lot of carriers will not carry knives, Royal Mail will, Parcel Force will not, for example, so care of the choice of carrier is important especially for knives of high value, make sure you check their T&C's another important thing is, if you label knives as , cutlery, tools etc, when putting in a claim some carriers ask for the receipt when bought, in order to verify the worth of the item, and you may have a job convincing them an item of cutlery is worth £3-400. And if you need to ask the owner for the receipt for the knife, you will then have to explain why you made a false statement about the item, and this of course gives the the right not to pay you out, using the post can be very tricky. Most of the knives I used to make were Bushcraft Knives and I used to mark them as woodcarving tools, and I only lost one in the post (RMSD) I used Ray Mears Book, which described the Woodlore as a carving tool, and they paid me out the £300 I claimed off them.
I couldn't understand the offer to put certain angles on the blade, as the thickness of the blade and the height of the grind determines the angle.

Good luck on your venture.

I assume farcode was talking about secondary bevels that would normally be present on kitchen knives or anything else with a full grind .
Bushcraft knives of course normally almost by definition of the word " Bushcrafter " of course have a proper scandi and perhaps the only reason we see some scandi grinds with a secondary is the person who put it there didn't know how to finish at zero on such a grind ?

 

[Fadcode]

I assume farcode was talking about secondary bevels that would normally be present on kitchen knives or anything else with a full grind .
Bushcraft knives of course normally almost by definition of the word " Bushcrafter " of course have a proper scandi and perhaps the only reason we see some scandi grinds with a secondary is the person who put it there didn't know how to finish at zero on such a grind ?

I never mentioned secondary bevels, so i am not sure what you mean by this comment. I just queried on the remark that any angle you wanted was available to be put on the knife for repair.

 

[Bowland blades]

I never mentioned secondary bevels, so i am not sure what you mean by this comment. I just queried on the remark that any angle you wanted was available to be put on the knife for repair.

I assumed wrong but you see if someone wanted extra steep on a scandi there would be quite a lot of bade lost regards width