New side gig, wouldn't mind it being steady. Couple weeks ago leaving the beer store I spotted a folding knife on the ground. It came home with me. Cheap Chinese folder with a nickel stuck in the pocket clasp.
Somebody a lot poorer than me had it for a daily and it was of no use to me as I got way better.
So I kept the nickel and put a true edge on the blade. Next day I took the knife back to the beer store and told the clerk to but it by the counter so that the owner could reclaim it. I told her I kept the nickel for putting a fresh edge on the blade. The clerk gets all revved up, wants to know if I will sharpen her knifes?
Does a bear sh!t in the woods and wipe it;s a$$ with a fuzzy bunny rabbit?
So two weeks in a row, I have given an afternoon to truing bevels and edges. First batch of six, had a French knife that may have struck a steel fence post. Used a brass hammer to flatten and true the kinked edge. Same for the tip of a six inch utility knife.
This week she cleaned out her kitchen. Biggest PITA was a three pound cleaver. The unground surfaces had hot roll scale! Freakin ugly
The back was file soft and the edge glass hard . Sharp enough now to shave my hairy back side if I was inclined to do so.
Tom
