Global kitchen knife refurb

[rubberdog]

So.. since I got my Edge Faux (and the real stones.. thank you Mr Dale) the word has gotten out that I can sharpen kitchen knives. I have sharpened a lot of pot steel but recently I was pleasantly surprised to have a 'customer' drop off some Globals for a spa treatment.

Now my girlfriend has Globals so I know the brand but these two were the GF series, fully forged, thicker spined. The one guy, a GF33 was missing its tip:



I filed it down by hand and a while later this was the result:



What was originally a 23 cm chefs knife was now around a 20cm chefs knife:



And a group shot:



All in all it was a very satisfying project. Needless to say the owner was very pleased and somewhat amazed to have her knives restored. Made me realise that us knuts are pretty lucky to have a skill that's so useful.

 

[samuraistuart]

Good job, Rubberdog! Looks great!

 

[bgentry]

I was all set to tell you how you were wasting your time trying to remove so much metal with an edge pro, but then.... you used a file! Good idea. ...and your results are very, very nice looking. Almost no one would be able to tell you altered the blade shape. Excellent work!

Brian.

 

[rubberdog]

Thanks for the compliments guys.

I would never have attempted to re profile the tip with the EP alone, as it was the metal file took me quite a while. I'm quite precious over my EP stones, so much so that when I sharpen a really blunt knife I will start off by thinning out the edge freehand on wet/ dry sandpaper stuck to a kitchen tile and then move onto the Edge Faux using the cheap coarse stone it came with before finally moving to the real EP stones.