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Went to use my trusty DeWalt benchtop planer a while back and it was about as sharp as a marble.

Had a spare set of knives on the shelf so I went to swap them and...Dang. That's the other old set I took off and never got around to having sharpened. So, I sprung for a new set from Amazon.

Couple weeks ago I finally got around to dropping them off to be sharpened. Silly me, I didn't read the fine print on his website and when he (finally...) called and said they were ready the bill for sharpening 4 knives was $78.

The new set from Amazon was $35 to my door.

Uh...oops...




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Posts: 15180 | Location: Downeast Maine | Registered: March 10, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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That is a lot of money for sharpening. I use a guy in San Francisco who charges $10 per knife.

**EDIT: Wait, that's for pocket knives. He charges $1-3 per inch for regular knives.



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Yeah, this guy is $1.50 per inch. Somehow, I read that as $1.50 per knife.

Oh well, three sets of sharp knives will likely last me a lifetime no more than I use that planer.




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