Hi Everyone,
I just came back from getting two SOG fixed blades sharpened at a local knife sharpener. It took them a week because they were closed a couple of days over the recent July 4th holiday. When I was given the two knives back, I was presented with a bill of $10 for each knife plus tax. I pointed out to the person at the counter that the price chart said it was $1 per inch and therefore the charge should have been $6 per blade, not $10. The response I received was that the chart was for kitchen/chef knives. Hunting knives cost more. I would have thought that the difficulty in sharpening a knife was dependant more on the blade steel and its heat treatment perhaps rather than on the arbitrary (?) utility someone assigns to the blade. I told the person at the counter that if they had a different price for different utilities, they should post those charges, otherwise, I'll pay based on their posted price chart. I put down my money based on my calculation as opposed to their bill and they said I would have to come back when there was someone there for me to speak to. I said I was not making an extra trip for something that was their fault. Now, the extra $8 wouldn't kill me either way, but there was just something about the situation that really bothered me. kind of like when I get hassled to check my shoulder bag into a retail store as women are being let in with bags twice the size of mine but they walk right past the bag check area without a word from the store security personnel. Sometimes I create "situations" for the sake of fairness or just pointing out the stupidity of someone's ridiculous rules. Now, am I missing something here, as in, is a outdoor/tactical/hunting/etc... knife that has a fairly straight edge with no recurve more costly/time consuming to sharpen than a chef's knife of the same length? If so, I will have to go back and apologize to them and pay up the difference between their bill and what I dropped on the counter. As I walked out, they were calling the police on me. I didn't care to stick around because for some reason, my mere presence sometimes tends to rub law enforcement officers the wrong way.
Thanks for your input,
DougL
I just came back from getting two SOG fixed blades sharpened at a local knife sharpener. It took them a week because they were closed a couple of days over the recent July 4th holiday. When I was given the two knives back, I was presented with a bill of $10 for each knife plus tax. I pointed out to the person at the counter that the price chart said it was $1 per inch and therefore the charge should have been $6 per blade, not $10. The response I received was that the chart was for kitchen/chef knives. Hunting knives cost more. I would have thought that the difficulty in sharpening a knife was dependant more on the blade steel and its heat treatment perhaps rather than on the arbitrary (?) utility someone assigns to the blade. I told the person at the counter that if they had a different price for different utilities, they should post those charges, otherwise, I'll pay based on their posted price chart. I put down my money based on my calculation as opposed to their bill and they said I would have to come back when there was someone there for me to speak to. I said I was not making an extra trip for something that was their fault. Now, the extra $8 wouldn't kill me either way, but there was just something about the situation that really bothered me. kind of like when I get hassled to check my shoulder bag into a retail store as women are being let in with bags twice the size of mine but they walk right past the bag check area without a word from the store security personnel. Sometimes I create "situations" for the sake of fairness or just pointing out the stupidity of someone's ridiculous rules. Now, am I missing something here, as in, is a outdoor/tactical/hunting/etc... knife that has a fairly straight edge with no recurve more costly/time consuming to sharpen than a chef's knife of the same length? If so, I will have to go back and apologize to them and pay up the difference between their bill and what I dropped on the counter. As I walked out, they were calling the police on me. I didn't care to stick around because for some reason, my mere presence sometimes tends to rub law enforcement officers the wrong way.
Thanks for your input,
DougL
