Local knife sharpening service just butchered 3 of my knives.

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:( Let me start off by saying I will never bring my edc pocket knives or fixed blades to another sharpening service ever again.:mad::mad::mad:
I was going to send my PM2, which wasn't bad at all, but wanted to get one of the sides tip to match the other, to Spyderco to have them sharpen it.
I tried myself but was getting frustrated. Same thing goes for my GEC #15 Soup Bone Barlow, but the Old Timer 34OT I just wanted to get sharpened with nothing wrong with the tip or shape. I decided to bring these 3 knives to a sharpening service 15 minutes away. I thought this guy knew what he was doing and told me he was going to sharpen on the grinding wheel and I told him just a sharpening and to fix the tip. Turns out he started off on what looked like a kitchen knife sharpening system that you drag the knife through. My biggest mistake was going next door to grab something to eat while he worked on the knives. All three knives now look like I have used them for 10 years at least. All three main blades have lost considerable steel and I guess I should blame nobody but myself for trusting Jose who spoke broken English if that. :mad::mad: My fellow knife friends the lesson here is never bring your knives to a knife sharpening service. If you need reprofiling, touch up, and you are patient, send it to the company you bought the knife from.
 
Oh, that poor Old Timer. When it comes to a grinding wheel on a knife, Dave Barry's classification of power tools seems appropriate here:

"Tools that nobody should ever use because the potential danger is far greater than the value of any project that could possibly result."

Sharpening came part and parcel with knife hording to me, and I found it to be both rewarding and relaxing. It's a real shame that happened to your knives but it may lead you down the path of honing happiness.
 
VictorKilo said:
Oh, that poor Old Timer. When it comes to a grinding wheel on a knife, Dave Barry's classification of power tools seems appropriate here:

"Tools that nobody should ever use because the potential danger is far greater than the value of any project that could possibly result."

Sharpening came part and parcel with knife hording to me, and I found it to be both rewarding and relaxing. It's a real shame that happened to your knives but it may lead you down the path of honing happiness.
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Yikes. That's really too bad, Ribeyeguy, but at least the soup bone Barlow is still a beautiful knife. You'd be surprised how many people would still consider it desirable (myself included).
 
Also, look in to jackknife's videos on youtube. Search for "instinctive knife sharpening." They helped me IMMENSELY!
 
But are they sharp??


On a serious note - it's always awful to see these threads...what did the guy say when you complained?
 
My condolences. Had someone done that to even one of my knives, I would be in jail and he would be in the morgue. But then, I would have grabbed my knives and run when he took the first step toward a power tool.
 
hhmoore said:
But are they sharp??


On a serious note - it's always awful to see these threads...what did the guy say when you complained?
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I told him that I didn't want any steel taken off, just a touch up and he looked at me like I had 3 heads.
 
yablanowitz said:
My condolences. Had someone done that to even one of my knives, I would be in jail and he would be in the morgue. But then, I would have grabbed my knives and run when he took the first step toward a power tool.
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That was my mistake. I should have stuck around and watched his every move instead of ducking next for a quick bite and coffee.
Well at least there's nice weather out today and I do have other knives to carry.
 
The soup bone and the Old Timer is what hurts the most. I'm just glad I left my 1 GEC Barlow sheepsfoot at home.
 
That sucks, but I hope you learned a lesson! I did the same thing, and it was the best thing that ever happened because it inspired me to learn to sharpen myself.
 
Ernie1980 said:
That sucks, but I hope you learned a lesson! I did the same thing, and it was the best thing that ever happened because it inspired me to learn to sharpen myself.
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I have a Sharpmaker that I've been using with good results and starting honing a little bit at a slow pace, but thought I needed a little help. Guess I got too much help. I was looking into the Diamond Stones and also watching alot of sharpening videos.
 
It hurts to look at those and I cringe whenever I hear someone mention knife sharpening service. Making a recurve out of a Charlow should be a crime punishable by hard labor (other than knife sharpening).

I feel for you about your bad experience but have to differ with you regarding the solution of returning knives to the company you bought them from for sharpening. I find that a great dea and perhaps majorityl of factory knives have poor to average edges out of the box and sending them back to the same place is not something I would consider doing. Some do this on purpose so that the user can put his own edge as they like while others just do it that way by practice. Learning how to properly sharpen, reprofile and repair edges was one of the best investments in time and equipment I have ever made in my life and it has made using my knives more enjoyable.
 
Brisket said:
It hurts to look at those and I cringe whenever I hear someone mention knife sharpening service. Making a recurve out of a Charlow should be a crime punishable by hard labor (other than knife sharpening).

I feel for you about your bad experience but have to differ with you regarding the solution of returning knives to the company you bought them from for sharpening. I find that a great dea and perhaps majorityl of factory knives have poor to average edges out of the box and sending them back to the same place is not something I would consider doing. Some do this on purpose so that the user can put his own edge as they like while others just do it that way by practice. Learning how to properly sharpen, reprofile and repair edges was one of the best investments in time and equipment I have ever made in my life and it has made using my knives more enjoyable.
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I was working the Barlow and PM2 alot and not getting a great result so that was the reason I thought I would send in to Spyderco. The Barlow I sent in to GEC to try and bring that nice sharp point back to the clip but when I got it back it looked like they didn't do anything. I continued to work with my own sharp maker and even using the rods they give you to hone on a flat surface. That's when I decided to bring them to a sharpening service. Never again.
 
Ouch! Man seeing the recurve put on that soup bone stings. The local locksmith here does sharpening and I thought about letting him sharpen one of my knives just for the heck of it but when I asked what he uses to sharpen with and he told me an old belt sander I was already nervous. Then we started talking blade steels and he didn't even know what S30v or 1095 was I took my knives back and walked out. I have a feeling if I left them I would be posting pictures much like this!

I have a sharpmaker which works great for keeping my kinves sharp but for actually setting the bevels and putting a nice initial edge on I use the Lansky setup which works good for everything but very small pen blades.
 
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