High Praise for richard j, The Sharpening Guru

jvthor

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I recently purchased a cheap S&W fixed blade to take hunting with me (I was in a pinch and was headed to Boar Country). Right out of the box, it was EXTREMELY dull, the scales were a poor fit, and just all around shoddy workmanship. I sent it to our friend Richard J to see what he could do with it, if anything at all.
I got it back from him today and, MY GODS! that thing is sharp. I never knew that you could get 440 stainless to shave an arm! I paid him $6.00 (a dollar per inch) and he must have spent hours fine-tuning the edge. He called me one afternoon and said he was working on it so long that fatigue was setting in, but would continue working on it the next day.
This Man is a Wizard with his magic Paper Wheel, and I would HIGHLY recommend his services. Below is a link to his website:

http://sites.google.com/site/richardjsknives/Home

I'll be posting before and after pictures to show comparison.

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HOURS???? talkin bout HOURS??? I always heard wheels took "seconds" to scary sharp a knife, not HOURS.......now I'm really confused:barf::yawn::rolleyes::grumpy:
 
my guess is that some lesser steels are harder to sharpen to the desire sharpness. Especially some soft chinese / pakistani steels, those are sometimes impossible to get sharp.
 
rayban said:
HOURS???? talkin bout HOURS??? I always heard wheels took "seconds" to scary sharp a knife, not HOURS.......now I'm really confused:barf::yawn::rolleyes::grumpy:
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I can tell you with complete certainty Richard did NOT spend hours on this knife....minutes is more like it.
 
rayban said:
....so fatigue was setting in after minutes??? Must have been a BIG knife.:rolleyes:
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Having talked to Richard many times he was probably being a little sarcastic.....and...he has some physical ailments that sometimes impact his ability to work for very long.

Is this where I put the "rolleyes" thingy? :rolleyes:
 
I think I recall Richard J. posting that he suffers from fibromyalgia. If that is so, then minutes can feel like hours.
 
I wish that I could say you guys were right, but Richard put a new, more utility edge on it. It came with a 45 to 50 degree edge out of the box, and it was thinned out to more of a 25 to 30 degree one (that's a lot of steel to remove). I basically sent him a 1/4 inch billet of steel, and Richard made me a knife from it.
 
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