For Sale: Knife Sharpening/ Regrinding service

[Precision123]

Bloody yanks will have a competition for anything!
Just like to say that it's taken me 50 years to see the difference between 'sharpening a knife' and 'polishing a blade'. Spent hundreds on knives, Japanese water stones and now, diamond plates.
If your knife can slice a standing fag paper, hats off to you!

 

[Longstrider]

Spix . Not seen Charlie at the new place yet, but managed to flatten one on the way to the chippy 2 nights ago Not a mark on the Freelander but Geolandars do them no good at all !

Glad you're happy with the new edges guys. Now all you need is a good fallow buck to test them on (Or a Rizla )

I did once do the "Rizla thing" with my Gransfor Bruks Small Forest Axe ... because one of the guys present bet me a bottle of rum that it couldn't be done

My axes are as sharp as my knives ... because I can

 

[Suilven]

Knife number 2 back from @Longstrider this week, very pleased again.

 

[phillips321]

Apologies for sounding daft in asking, as im no knife expert. But if you sharpen an inexspensive knife for me will i need to send it back after a few uses to get re-sharpened? Take a mora £15 knife for example, will that quickly loose it's edge making your service uneconomical? Thanks

 

[Longstrider]

It's probably not even an economical move to send a Mora TBH. With postage each way as well as my fee you'll be spending more than you would if you bought another Mora.
The whole point of what I do is to put a repeatable and useable edge on a knife. Many of the knives that come to me are either very dull or damaged in some way (like having chipped edges) I either regrind and then hone, or just hone (dependant on the job in hand) to produce not just a very sharp edge, but an edge that the user can hopefully maintain with no more than a loaded strop.
I do have a customer who each year sends me a whole box of Moras for sharpening (20 to 30 knives) as he simply uses them until dull then picks up another sharp one.

 

[Precision123]

A lot depends on the quality of the steel. Mora are great but at that price, it's not going to be top grade steel, is it?
Good 'knife' steel is capable of being quite thin yet able to be formed into, and retain, a fine bevel.
Less capable steels are, well, less capable. You could put an edge on it, maybe, but it won't last.
As the saying goes, you can't polish a tu*d, but you can put glitter on it.

 

[mack8317]

Hi

Being an idiot this morning broke the tip of a buck 110 I use as my everyday work knife not too bothered about sharpening it as long as the tip of it doesn't look like a flathead screwdriver are you able to sort it out

 

[Spix]

tip

In looking through my knives of the dim & distant Ian, @Longstrider, did this one, great tip! Toothpick for comparison.

 

[scotch_egg]

Hi

Being an idiot this morning broke the tip of a buck 110 I use as my everyday work knife not too bothered about sharpening it as long as the tip of it doesn't look like a flathead screwdriver are you able to sort it out

I managed to re tip a global cooks knife with a lansky kit on a knife used in a friends cafe.

I am sure the OP will be able to make an amazing job of sorting your knife but the looks of his work.

 

[Bowland blades]

A lot depends on the quality of the steel. Mora are great but at that price, it's not going to be top grade steel, is it?
Good 'knife' steel is capable of being quite thin yet able to be formed into, and retain, a fine bevel.
Less capable steels are, well, less capable. You could put an edge on it, maybe, but it won't last.
As the saying goes, you can't polish a tu*d, but you can put glitter on it.

I think where the cheaper knives are concerned its the heat treatment process that is penny pinched more than the steel . A mass manufacturer will want everything done fast but will buy their raw material in massive bulk from those smelting and rolling it likely even to the extent having their own melt ? Heat treat has a higher cost than steel as a raw material for me , if its done here or sent out .

 

[Longstrider]

Hi

Being an idiot this morning broke the tip of a buck 110 I use as my everyday work knife not too bothered about sharpening it as long as the tip of it doesn't look like a flathead screwdriver are you able to sort it out

I can sort that out for you fella. I'll drop you a PM and we can go from there

 

[Just_john]

Hi longstrider, I've a few knives my amateur skills just can't get right, can I arrange to send you a bundle for sharpening please?

Thanks

 

[mack8317]

I can sort that out for you fella. I'll drop you a PM and we can go from there

PM sent

 

[Longstrider]

Hi longstrider, I've a few knives my amateur skills just can't get right, can I arrange to send you a bundle for sharpening please?

Thanks

Pm on its way in a minute fella.

 

[Longstrider]

PM sent

Not had that land yet fella. Try to re-send perhaps ?

 

[mack8317]

Not had that land yet fella. Try to re-send perhaps ?

My mistake sent to your email address with a picture of the damaged blade tip

 

[mack8317]

My mistake sent to your email address with a picture of the damaged blade tip

Hi

Did you get the picture I sent if not will resend it

 

[Longstrider]

Hi Mack, Reply is in your PM inbox. It is very broken, but I can make it well again

 

[mack8317]

 

[mack8317]

Hi

Some pics of a salvage job long strider has done on a buck 110 that I snapped the tip of done really quickly and as good as if not better than new certainty a lot sharper and at a very reasonable price so if you have any knives you have wrecked send them to him very skilled workmanship

Thanks
Mack8317