Will someone sharpen a knife for me?

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Hi, I have a Benchmade that I would like to have sharpened. I would really like to have someone put a nice scary sharp edge on it with an Edge Pro. I'm open to other sharpeners also but I have already tried to put an edge on it and it's just halfway decent but I would really like to have a crazy sharp edge on it. Plus I like how the Edge Pro makes the edge look mirror polished. I don't want to send it back to BM because it will take a month or more (that's what they said), plus I know there are people here who can sharpen a knife better than the factory. I am willing to pay if needed.

Anyone interested please email me through the forum.
 
You can send it in to the Edge Pro people, and you will get it back quickly and scarey sharp for just the shipping. They advertise this on their site as a kind of "show and tell" about their product.
 
Thanks bigbcustom. I did not know that. I will do that. Heck I might even buy an Edge Pro if I like how it turns out.
 
I have an Edge Pro Deluxe system, an EZE-Sharp, sharpmaker, 7 water stones, several Arkansas stones, the spyderco ceramic bench stones, several diamond bench plates, several diamond paddle type sharpeners, several strops with nearly every conceivable grit for them, a belt grinder (1x42), an 8" bench grinder, float glass with sand paper, mousepad affixed to a peice of wood, and a 15X loupe (hope to get a dissecting microscope sometime soon). As you may have guessed by now, I am a little bit OCD about sharpening. I get good results from all these items, but I would say that the Edge Pro is one of the easiest for a beginner to get excellent results with. I think that I get my best edges the fastest from the water stones followed by stropping on cro2. For really large kitchen type knives, I like the EZE-Sharp with the Spyderco bench stones mounted in their holders followed by stropping. For quick touch ups, I will either use the sharpmaker or the spyderco bench stones depending on how I have sharpened the knife previously. The Mouse pad on wood covered with various grits of sandpaper is an excellent method for convexed knives which is easy to master as well. I could have stopped at any point in my sharpening adventure, but curiosity has driven me on. Another thing that is fun to play with is sharpening a blade to a kind of rough utility edge (with a good micro seration pattern) then hitting it on a strop loaded with cro2 for a good bit of time. What you get is polished micro serations that slice like a light saber. Anyway, I will quit my rambling now and.....oh I don't know...maybe go play in the shop or something.
 
Tom,

What is your preferred method of sharpening? Why? You seem to be recognized on the forums here as an authority on edge angles, sharpening, and knives in general, and in looking at your site (and the knives on it), it is obvious to me that you do good work. I would very much like to read your take (musings) on sharpening, and what constitutes a sharp edge to you. I can get some pretty darn sharp edges on my knives, but I doubt I am in the league with yourself or Dr. Sharpening whoever he is.
 
Tom gets them to tree top hairs real nice with excellent slicing aggression, definately another great sharpener amonst us.
 
Tom,

Thank you for your offer. I called the people at Edgepro on Friday but didn't get an answer. I sent an email also so I'll wait a few days and see. I would think they would get back to me. If not, I wouldn't expect you to do it for free. I'll be in touch.
 
Benchmade has a lifetime sharpening policy don't they? I think you can your knife to Benchmade and they will fix it right up for you. It is good to do if you are also missing a clip screw or something because they might just fix that for you as well.
 
kgriggs8 said:
Benchmade has a lifetime sharpening policy don't they? I think you can your knife to Benchmade and they will fix it right up for you.
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When I sent in my Benchmade Ares to have the broken Omega spring and bent pocket clip replaced, they also "sharpened" it for me. Meaning, they ground off my highly polished thin convex scary sharp edge, and returned it with an edge ground on with a coarse belt at about 25 degrees per side. I was not amused with their complimentary "lifetime dulling service".
 
As good as their knives are they need a good lesson on sharpening. Benchmades either come with an obtuse coarse edge, or they come with a thin acute somewhat polished edge that will fold right over at the sight of anything harder than cardboard. The best way to go is sending it to Ben for an edge pro sharpening.
 
I have never sent one it to BM to be sharpened but I have never had a real complaint about my new knife edges. In fact, they all seem to come VERY sharp. I also think BM does S30-v better than Spyderco somehow. I think Spyderco's VG-10 is as good as it gets. Maybe only Al Mar beats Spyderco's VG-10. I am not as impressed with the S30-V from Spyderco as from BM. I would rather have the VG-10 from Spyderco and the S30-V from BM.
 
the edge-pro method for micro serrrations is...bring the edge up to the 320
grit, then finish on the ceramic. i'm told it holds its edge and you can touch
-up with the ceramic 10 to 15X ,before you have to put it back on the machine. a big help for constant use knives...eg. butchers, fish canneries.
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I think you are making a mistake. Anybody who is serious about knives, and apparently you are, should be able to sharpen effectively. It is a skill but it is a skill anybody can learn. The Edgepro product is pretty fool proof. So is the Lansky. If you use them correctly, you can put an edge on a blade that is as good as it can be.

I did one of my kitchen knives on the Edgepro last week. I had to go back and rough it up a little because it was sticking to the cutting board and slowing me down. Scary enough?

The only decision that needs to be made in blade sharpening is the angle. Everything else is just a process. The process is the same regardless of the tools used to do the sharpening or the blade. Sharpening holds some sort of mystery to non sharpeners that I could never quite understand. It is a simple, straightforward process. Anybody can do it with a little practice.
 
"Knife outlet" is dead right on this one. Learning to sharpen a knife is part of using one properly. With that said though, having a benchmark edge such as one put on by any of our resident edge nuts or by ben at edgepro isnt a bad idea. It lets you know how sharp a knife could be. None of my knives would ever go back to the manufacturer for sharpening, they are all much sharper now than they were when new as well as having more effective angles. Take all that money you would spend in a year shipping knives too and fro (and the downtime while being sharpened) and you would have been able to buy an edgepro, a portable hone, and maybe a new knife.

Personal example: A few years back when i bought a shun kitchen knife, I didnt own anything over 600 grit to sharpen it with. With the $110 knife i ordered an $80 norton 4k/8k stone. Every day since then i have been able to use a knife that splits hair lengthwise and sails through everything in the kitchen. Why own an expensive dull knife? Do you drop your blue jeans off at the cleaners because you dont know how to use a washing machine?

Lots of great information on the forum to get those knives any way you want them.

Here is the edge i put on my buck akonua using an ezesharp and the norton 4k/8k.
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Knife Outlet said:
I think you are making a mistake. Anybody who is serious about knives, and apparently you are, should be able to sharpen effectively. It is a skill but it is a skill anybody can learn. The Edgepro product is pretty fool proof. So is the Lansky. If you use them correctly, you can put an edge on a blade that is as good as it can be.
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Ok, ok, I'm convinced. I have to buy an EdgePro. I'm a total newbie to sharpening. Can anyone save me the hassle of searching for which model to buy and where is the least expensive place to buy it (and post here what the price is)? Thanks!
 
perpster said:
Ok, ok, I'm convinced. I have to buy an EdgePro. I'm a total newbie to sharpening. Can anyone save me the hassle of searching for which model to buy and where is the least expensive place to buy it (and post here what the price is)? Thanks!
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I believe you can only purchase it from the edgepro website.
 
I googled it and there are several places selling them, but there are several model choices. Is the Apex (least expensive choice) good enough for all my knife sharpening needs?
 
Actually, looking at Edge Pro's own website it appears that the Pro and Pro Scissors Attachment can only be bought direct from Edge Pro. The Apex is widely available at "resellers." In fact, there are so many Apex "packages" at so many resellers, it's a bit mind-boggling trying to figure out which to get.
 
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