Your idea is valid. Your grammar, punctuation, spelling and syntax are atrocious.
If you want to provide high-end services to professionals who both want it, and can afford it, they will expect you to communicate at higher than a 4th-grade level.
I have been around here long enough to remember when you had a small sense of humility.
Reading that post, you obviously jumped that gate. You should find Mike and kick his ass for expressing himself in the way he feels comfortable. Bring that man up to your standards, buddy.
Quote Originally Posted by Samael 10/18/2011 at 7:21 pm:
However, being ignorant and bringing a "Mr. Know-It-All" attitude to the party will get your balls busted faster than anything around here.
Remember that? Probably not. But
you responded on 10/18/2011 at 7:47 pm:
Quoted because I learned it the hard way. With a continuing diet of humble pie and an occasional cup of STFU, I am slowly wiring my virtual jaw shut and ratcheting open my think-hole. Learn from my mistakes
Where did that guy go? The one that used to tell the folks here how helpful they were, and how thankful he was for their help...
Hard to believe that was just a few months ago.
Don't take my word for it. Name of the thread?
"Thread: Go South till ya smell it. Take a left when you step in it. Warning Dumbasses Inside."
That sentiment may be appropriate here, too.
I hope in you continue to let the rest of us post on the forum with you, Terrio. Or at the least see if the
old James is around and interested in coming back.
Don't worry, Mike. Not all are as learned and erudite as others. We continue to express ourselves using language and speech patterns that are familiar to us, doing the best we can.
I have met two different individuals with a knife and scissor sharpening business, but their level of education and fluency of correct, written expression was not made available to me. They seemed happy, but I may not be intelligent enough to discern the linguistic nuances that would belie intentional or unintentional deception concerning their overall state of being.
Both ran their businesses out of a converted mail truck. One had a
large shop built sanding belt rig that he built himself. He sharpened large knives and machetes o this rig using different belts, grits and polishes. He put a convex edge on the larger knives by using he slack area of the rig, and a more traditional "V" bevel edge using the platen. He had a smaller 1" X 42" sander for smaller knives and scissors. He had a few hones, and some extra fine emory cloth, but not much more. He catered to restaurants, and he sharpened from his truck because he told me that the chefs that had really expensive knives didn't want them out of their sight. He told me he had enough work to make a fair living, but not get rich. He also told me it was steady, which was great.
The other guy I met was someone that was sharpening scissors at the place I get my hair cut. Different sharpening system, but he was a whiz at sharpening scissors. He did
some knives, but told me he made more money with scissors, so that was his bread and butter. While he didn't tell me this personally, he told the guy that cuts my hair he did very well. I guess so; when the guy took out the box of scissors to be sharpened, it had about 25 pairs of scissors in it. Depending on the size, he told me he charged anywhere from $3.50 to $5.00 for scissors/shears. He told me that it would take him a little over an hour to disassemble, clean, sharpen and reassemble all of them. Not bad earnings for an hour.
Both told me the same thing. You need to be patient to build the business, and always put a perfect edge on the knife/shears. If you do something bad to a knife, be prepared to buy it, and likewise with the shears. As with all businesses, this particular one is built on speed and accuracy. If it takes you 30 minutes (or more) to get a knife up to par on your current set up, you will starve at a .75 or $1.00 an inch. Additionally, I don't know that you will have a good shot at success when starting out if you don't advertise yourself as a
sharpening service.
Although both of the sharpening guys I met had their preferences, they would (and could) sharpen
anything.
Robert
