The minimum I can do....

When someone sends in their expensive knife for sharpening the first time I'm pretty sure that they're nervous about what could happen. I get it - I'd feel the same way if the roles were reversed.

Here's a typical sharpening job that I did this afternoon, nothing special, just a clean up and sharpen - the minimum that I know how to do.

I hope this helps a potential customer to ease their mind of worries.

 

Good job Dave

 

Woo looks sharp!

 

Wow thats amazing,... The minimum I do is stay in bed till 3 in the afternoon, and go straight to the couch. I wish I had you talent

 

The minimum? I have to scrape the gunk off some of the knives I get in. Then I clean them up and put and edge on them. That's minimum. I've done 4 single bevels in the last year. They didn't look like that. What you did is pretty amazing Dave.

 

Beautiful as always Dave! Do you take Yanagiba's to a different grit than gyuto's?

 

Yes sir, I go full stupid on yanagibas. I'm trying to get the perfect edge for the task as well as surface texture on the bevel for release.

 

Thanks for all the kind words guys.

 

Yeah I remember an article you written Dave about applying the most polished edges on slicers? Anyone remembers that?

I would however turn the question around. Where do the regular service ends. I mean, you get something inferior to Hayate, lets say a cheap masamoto, or something similar bent or warped. Would you attempt fixing that for the same pricetag?
Im asking cause Im curious and also because I noticed its very easy to get carried away and spend hours and hours for no money. How do you balance that?

cheers

 

That's always an issue. I go by the "you win some - you lose some" principle and figure that it usually evens out in the end but there are many many many times that cheaper knives come in where I have to charge more. In those cases the customer usually bails out about 50% of the time and that's understandable since the cost of sharpening/repair often exceeds the value of the knife quite a bit.