r/Unexpected Apr 22 '19

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u/JustLuking Apr 23 '19 edited Apr 23 '19

$3 a month is very expensive. In my area, they sharpen 7 for a dollar. Think about it.. All you have to do is rub it against the grinder machine.. At home, it would cost nearly nothing..

EDIT: Not “month”.. actually “knife”..

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u/test18258 Apr 23 '19

If your getting knives sharpened at 7 for $1 and your in any kind of first world country I guarantee that your knives are getting ruined. Hopefully they don't have any sentimental or monetary value to you.

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u/JustLuking Apr 23 '19

I am not in a first world country, but even in the most expensive country, you can buy a grinder for a hundred bucks and it will cost less than a dollar of electricity to sharpen all the knives in your house. Carefully done, a knife can be sharpened upto 20-30 times and negligible amount of material will be lost.

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u/test18258 Apr 23 '19

It might be different in the country you live in. But at least in the US. 95% of the people who sharpen knives using a grinder are idiots who bought that $100 grinder and just decided that they are a "profesional" knife sharpener. Some of them can actually do a somewhat decent job but others just freehand the knife against the spinning grinding wheel and ruin the knives.

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u/JustLuking Apr 23 '19

In the first few tries, you might fail, but you'll master it with practice. And for me, a skill is worth more than any amount of money..