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Spent $400 on a 'professional' knife sharpener that just wrecked my edges
It was a slick online ad, but the angle guide was off and it ground my best boning knife down to nothing. Anyone know a good local sharpening service in the Cleveland area?
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sandra4122mo ago
Ugh, that "professional" sharpener story hits home. I was all about those gadgets for years, swore by my pull-through sharpener. Then I watched a guy at the West Side Market fix a knife with a chipped tip in like two minutes on a stone. The edge was way better than anything my gadget ever did. Totally changed how I see it now.
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Hold on, I've had the total opposite happen. My local guy butchered my chef's knife, took off way too much metal. That expensive sharpener with the fixed angle? Once I got the guide set right, it gives me a perfect, repeatable edge every single time. Sometimes the gadget is just more reliable than a person having a bad day.
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miab1621d ago
Forty bucks and a week wait for my "professional" to turn my Wusthof into a butter knife. Guy took off a solid quarter inch of steel. Now it's a rocking knife for garlic. Guess he was having a bad decade. My cheapo fixed angle rig never pulls that stunt. At least with a gadget I know the only screw-up is my own fault.
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