Daily Routine

Hi folks,

If this is your visit, thanks for finding my Blog, and if this is not your visit, you already know how grateful I am that you are here.

In case anyone wonders how many knives I sharpen a day, I will tell you.

Todays Haul

This is a little more than a daily average of knives and I won't get through all of them in one day. I don't know what is in store for me when I open the packages, each package has anywhere from one to eight knives. I will spread this bunch over 3 days, in the meantime more knives will arrive.

I think it is pretty cool that folks get their knives sharpened and I never take it for granted that they trust me with them.

I've only every had once unfortunate incident where an individual accused me of doing something to his knife. Fortunately I had plenty of photos to back me up and the sad thing is, that individual has lost access to a pretty good knife sharpener.  I always take a photo the knives when I get them and before I start work just to be safe, but I never need them.

Each knife takes me about 15 minutes to do, of course there will be some that take much longer but on the average it is 15 minutes.


I go through a coarse stone, 400-500 grit in about 3 months.

500 Shapton Glass that I can see through.

Just sharing some info here, now I have to get to work on these knives.





You're wondering what this picture has to do with knife sharpening......wait for it.


I just think it is cool, these toys are 23 years old and belong to my son, his son now plays with them. The X-Wing fighter in the background still make sounds after all these years.


So why am I putting this picture here.......my grandson (grasshopper) is the one that will take over my business someday when I am too old to sharpen. When they pry those water stones out of cold dead hands.....20 years from now if I am lucky..