Thread: And you think you've got the ultimate hone...........

Some of us need to step up to this level.
Pretty cool honing service,

I want one!

Wonder if he follows the honing pyramid!

Very cool.

Roger

And that's how he rolls!

Ye oldi honing service, which one for the kitchen knives and which one for the razors....

I'm old enough to remember the peddlers coming up the block with various services. There was the fruit and vegetable guy with a horse drawn cart and kids on tricycles selling ice Cream and guys with a whole sharpening setups in the back of a truck.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

I'm old enough to remember the peddlers coming up the block with various services. There was the fruit and vegetable guy with a horse drawn cart and kids on tricycles selling ice Cream and guys with a whole sharpening setups in the back of a truck.

We so desperately need that kind of service(s) again .

Originally Posted by Nightblade

We so desperately need that kind of service(s) again .

Agreed! However, since the stainless knives are so cheap folks don't respect steel and they just buy new. I checked out the possibilities when i retired, thought about it a lot earlier, but could not afford gas on what anyone might pay. I were a butcher and sous chef before I went into service in '59.and we had good steel Dexter, Henckles, etc. Honed our using knives ourselves but occasionally a truck came by the butcher shop and would hone a batch for our customers who would leave them with us for the scheduled arrival of the grinder. He did a nice job...for household and kitchen knives. At fifty cents to a buck apiece, as i remember and a new Dexter was about $3-5 and new Henckles about $10-30.
Thanks for the memories!
~Richard

Used to have a guy cruising the neighborhood when I was a kid in the late 50's. Had a bell that would ring as he rolled his cart and my Mom would hear him coming and gather up all her knives and scissors to have them sharpened. Had a foot pumped stone so it turned nice and slow and put one hell of an edge on the knives. Never failed a couple of days later my Mom would forget she had her knives sharpened and would cut herself while cooking!