Muzzlebrake
Babbling Farker
- Joined
- Sep 22, 2006
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Thanks for the nudge over the edge. Upon examining the Amount of knives I have that need sharpening and after talking to a few of my cookoff buddies, they need someone to sharpen theirs also, so I pulled the trigger on the Wicked Edge pro pack 2. @$699 it seemed steep at first, but then got to thinking I could pay for it in a few months of just little side jobs. Really a neat system.
Wow they must charge a lot for sharpening by you! Here the going rate is around $1 per inch and they'll come pick them up and drop them off.
I have a slew of Henckels knives and I just use a regular Henckels ceramic pull through sharpener and a honing steel. I finally broke down and had the set we had given to us when we got engaged in 98 professionally sharpened last year. They were due and while I noticed a bit of a difference, it wasn't a big one but nobody has ever accused me of having dull knives.
I would recommend talking to whoever you have sharpen them for you, not all are created equally and around here there are plenty of places that advertise knife sharpening that bought a machine and don't have a clue. I've heard more than one horror story about a CIA student taking their pride and joy Japanese sushi knife to be "professionally" sharpened only to have it ruined.