"Sharpening" Nightmare

luckily the guy did not take a coarse grinder to that poor knive. All the damage there is can be repaired.

I would also imagine that these guys do not sharpen for cosmetically perfect results but just to bring user knives back to a level where they actually cut.
 
All Farmers Market sharpeners are not created equal for sure. But thats not to say there are no good ones out there. If the only thing you see is a Tormek, belt sander or some other powered device that should turn a light bulb on saying maybe I don't really want to have this fella do this. 99.9 percent of what you see at markets is junk knives. 99.9 percent of the customers don't care about the method used to sharpen. Thats how many market sharpeners get away with a single method of sharpening. I sharpen at Farmers Markets more for the exposure than the money. I may have allot more background than many. Plus I have pretty much everything on hand to take care of most customers needs. Belt grinder, Tormek, paper wheels, silicon carbide stones, Arkansas, water stones up to 8K plus strops I use only for knives. If I have a savvy customer they want to see a piece that I've sharpened before. If they are really savvy they watch me work. If they are really really savvy we talk sharpening since they do their own work. Sorry to hear of your plight but you shouldn't put all market sharpeners in one category.
 
Man that sucks I have only once had someone supposedly professional sharpen a blade for me never again find a system that works for you and learn how to do it yourself or you always have Richard J if you must.
 
you have to watch brick and mortar shops or anyplace similar and their so called professional sharpeners. i have seen plenty of knives like yours that were sent to me for repair that were taken to a store. if a person does their research first, they can avoid problems like that. i have sharpened custom knives worth several thousand dollars before with no problems that the maker was scared to sharpen.

your knife should have only taken him 2 minutes max to sharpen up if he knew what he was doing.

i had a member come over last year to have me fix his khukri that a store on columbus messed up. i had to completely reprofile the edge since they had it looking like a cold chisel.
 
By the way, the above is the guy I would suggest to have fix this. I've not had anything sharpened by him (yet), but have heard and seen nothing but outstanding results.
 
Sorry to hear about your situation. A true professional (as is the original maker) can probably get you squared away without much trouble. The damage does not look that bad.

I can sharpen my own knives, but I'm not the best at it yet. I wanted to see what our local "Farmer's Market" sharpener could do. He has a pretty good reputation. Not wanting to risk a more expensive knife, I gave him a Svord Farmer's Knife asking that he take the edge angle down a few degrees to make the knife a bit more "slicey". While it wasn't damaged at all, it was not any sharper and the edge bevel looked like it had been barely touched. My little test left me hesitant to go back to him.

Richard J., mentioned above, has done excellent work on a couple of my knives. Mike
 
You have to tell us which farmers market. I seen a few around the state with that service, and only a couple that seemed like they knew more than scissors and kitchen knives.
 
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