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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3 Comments

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.

wendyc532mo ago

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.

miab1621h 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.