sharpening service costs for used tools

SLG · 2005-05-12T21:50:50+00:00

Was at my local sharpening service this morning to see if they had jointerknives for my 6 inch jointer for sale. Turns out they did, but when he toldme $35 bucks for a used sharpened set, I almost fell over. I can buy a newfreud set for 20 something, I say. He tells me that this is old steel, muchbetter than the new steel they use today. Professional grade, rather than"home depot" grade, as he put it. As he was a rather ornery old Italianfrom the old country, and was in the possesion of many sharpenedinstruments, I wasnt going to argue with him, plus I kinda liked the oldguy. I think I went up a notch in his book when I told him I have a forrestsaw blade, as he is a distributor. However, I left without a used $35 setof 6 inch knives. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone knew if he was feedingme a line about the 'old' vs. 'new' steel? Sounded like BS to me, but whoam I to argue...I bet his wife made some mean pasta, though...Drew

May 12, 2005 22 Replies

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Mike Marlow 21 years ago

I'm kinda fond of my (nearing) 50 y/o woman - in excellent condition and still meets factory spec. Problem is she believes old tools should be kept around as curios and not really used very much.

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Lee DeRaud 21 years ago

You just have to find a place that will give you a decent trade-in allowance on your old tool.

Lee

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Prometheus 21 years ago

Might be a couple of weeks, I but I will certainly try- actually, if they're as good as he was claiming, it'll probably be on here as a gloat at those prices!

Aut inveniam viam aut faciam

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