Recommendation? U.S. High-end Sharpening Service

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Taint Choil

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I'd really like to have Knife Grinders do it, but I'm in the U.S. and they're in Australia.

Is there anybody stateside that operates in a similar fashion? Specifically, sub-50 BESS scores, certified BESS testing, 13° angles, and mirror polish at reasonable prices?

Please and thanks!
 
That's an interesting sharpening service! I never had success with consistency on my BESS tester when I was testing the prototype so I got rid of it. Hope you find someone!
 
Taint Choil said:
I'd really like to have Knife Grinders do it, but I'm in the U.S. and they're in Australia.

Is there anybody stateside that operates in a similar fashion? Specifically, sub-50 BESS scores, certified BESS testing, 13° angles, and mirror polish at reasonable prices?

Please and thanks!
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I wouldn't worry about a BESS score...

Send it to Josh, and I'll bet you'd be more than happy with the result.

Take a look at his work HERE.
 
cbwx34 said:
I wouldn't worry about a BESS score...

Send it to Josh, and I'll bet you'd be more than happy with the result.

Take a look at his work HERE.
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Thank you for the props brother, but I just closed books on mirrored edges... Too much other stuff in the works lol
 
razor-edge-knives said:
That's an interesting sharpening service! I never had success with consistency on my BESS tester when I was testing the prototype so I got rid of it. Hope you find someone!
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Thanks. It's wootzblade, you know. He of the pinned sharpness scale at the top of the sub-forum.

Even with the current production models of the BESS tester, my understanding is that it can be very finicky about how everything is position, aligned, etc. It's far from an ideal instrument, but it gives an objective number, which counts for something. It's not the be-all/end-all, obviously, but I'm of the mindset that it's easier to improve things that you can measure objectively.
 
cbwx34 said:
I wouldn't worry about a BESS score...

Send it to Josh, and I'll bet you'd be more than happy with the result.

Take a look at his work HERE.
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Thanks for replying. I was already familiar Josh's site, and it does showcase some beautiful work for a fact.

I use a rod-controlled guided sharpener myself and can get a mirror polish that I'm (almost) satisfied with... when you get them in bright light or under a loupe, you always want them one-step better. The problem I have found, at least with KME and Lansky, is that they frequently don't let me get as shallow of an angle as I'd like. I'm thinking of getting a Hapstone M2, as that purports to go down to 8°, but I've got so much loot sunk in KME, that I'm really hesitant to start down another road.

I can also get my knives pretty sharp, but I'd like to have one mirror-polished, bragging edge that just falls through a rolling paper the short way like a DE razor blade does... and I've never been able to get one that sharp yet. Every once in a while I get one to split a hanging hair, but I'm not even getting that consistently. [cue sad violin music]
 
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