I don't worry about it too much though, since I've got a Forschner Victorinox 12" chef's knife ($30) and a 12" mass-produced rolled carbon steel knife from the 60's ($12 on eBay). Both are great knives. My roommates also have an assortment of junky stainless steel utility and paring knives that are hardly worth sharpening since they seem to get dull after one or two uses.

Wow, talk about blogvertisements

By anon on Thu, 10/04/2012 - 4:49pm.

Is it just me, or were those incredibly obvious paid advertisements?

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I'm not so sure

By MattyC on Thu, 10/04/2012 - 7:06pm.

I've recently tried to source a sharpener. The last time I had all my knives professionally sharpened (here's to you, Bucci and sons) they ground more than 1/8" off of all of my Henckels knives. A motley collection, but basically all of my nice knives. This includes re-scalloping a serrated utility knife. They left the heel of my 10" chefs about 3/16 higher than the rest of the blade, so the fucking edge didn't even hit the board.

Not pleased overall.

Cut to last month, I see it's time to try again, and lo and behold there is almost nowhere accessible to public transit to get knives sharpened. On the Edge at the Davis Farmer's Market was the ticket for me, and I'll never use anyone other than Patti again.

What I'm saying is that the 4 sharpeners on that list may very well be the only 4 useful options in the area. They are almost certainly not paid "blogvertisements" if I am to use your ridiculous word.

Check local stores. There

By johnmcboston on Fri, 10/05/2012 - 10:48am.

Check local stores. There are places that have sharpeners in once a month or so that can take care of you.

These guys are in the south end market every Sunday http://www.bobbymactheknife.com/

These guys are at Formaggio today - not sure how often they are there http://www.southendformaggio.com/node/482

The lady at Formaggio (today)

By MattyC on Fri, 10/05/2012 - 11:16am.

The lady at Formaggio (today) is Patti, from On the Edge. She is great. I've seen Mac the Knife at the SoWa market, but have not had the chance to try them.

Hmm

By Matthew on Thu, 10/04/2012 - 11:22pm.

I kinda think Adam put this post up on purpose after the previous one.

I've used Stoddards before to

By Biggie_Robs on Thu, 10/04/2012 - 11:46pm.

I've used Stoddards before to sharpen some knives, and they did a fine job on my chef's knife. I also asked them to sharpen a pocket knife that has D2 steel blades, because that really requires a diamond stone, which I didn't have. Unfortunately, I was disappointed in that blade's sharpness--Stoddards just didn't get it very sharp.

So, I bought a Lansky diamond deluxe sharpening system on Amazon. Now I have knives that are as sharp as I would like them to be. It's not difficult to use, and it takes about as much time to sharpen knives as it would take to trek out to these locations.

Get your knives out

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