No dishwasher

[Shaughnessy]

This was posted over on the maker's area as well, but thought I would post here too since its kitchen tools.

I had given a couple blades and a scoop to some relatives and they put them thru the dishwasher. Needless to say the dishwasher was like a sandblaster and they looked horrible afterward and there were gaps between the scales and the tang on the bigger blade. The scoop was cocobolo but looked really bad after the dishwasher. It was like all the natural oils had been stripped out of the wood and it was bleached a lighter color.

Anyways, I am mailing them back now with new handles and a new scoop.

Red Mallee burl and Box Elder burl on the scoop.
Heres some pics.... Larry

No before pics of the blades but heres one of the old scoop. I just bought a new kit for the scoop thru rockler, since that was easier than trying to dismantle the thing any further. The other reason is the old one was brass and the now they have stainless, which seems a little nicer. Anyways you see can a pic below of the cocobolo scoop and how the collar came off. That was put on with long set epoxy, same with the handles on the blades.

BEFORE------->

AFTER ------------->

 

[bear1889]

Next time use marine epoxy ;-) Seriously, they must be really embarrassed about this. Most non-knife people run everything thru a dishwasher including wood cutting boards. The worse abusers I've seen are the ladies, men just throw the dirty knife back in the drawer.....

 

[Bhamster]

MY annoying sister in law and her annoying husband my brother damaged so many of my good kitchen knives in that way or other even more nefarious methods that I have banned them forever from my kitchen. Some people are simply not teachable. Yours is a good demonstration but even that would not sink into their thick skulls. Sorry for ranting but very nice work you did.

 

[Phillip Dobson]

Sad and scary.

My brother is getting a chef knife for his birthday at the end of the month. He's already briefed his roommates and friends on proper use and care. I'm sure it will be fine, but it's always a worry that someone who doesn't know any better will ruin countless hours of my hard work.

Here's the knife he's getting:

CPM M4 and stabilized amboyna

I bet (or at least hope) your relatives will be more careful this time.

 

[Shaughnessy]

I hear ya Phillip. Just added a couple more before pics I found of the scoop. Larry

 

[TLARbb]

Some people do not deserve to own really good kitchen knives, or even pretty good kitchen knives. Before I gave any relative a custom knife I had put many hours into, I would provide them with a pretty good manufactured knife and check in about 3 months to see how they have treated it. It makes me mad enough about decent manufactured knives, I can't imagine how aggravated it would make me if I had someone do to my hand crafted knives what has happened to those you gave your relatives.

Really good kitchen knives are a joy to use and I love gifting decent knives to relatives, but I have found I have to just not be concerned about how they will be treated because it is a 90% chance that they will be mis-used/abused.

Ed