Knife sharpening
February 25, 2008 2:59 PM   Subscribe

Where can I get knives sharpened in the Hollywood (CA) area?
posted by TigerCrane to Food & Drink (9 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
This may be further than you're willing to trek, but there always seems to be a knife sharpening guy at the Mar Vista Farmers' Market, which is held every Sunday on Venice and Grand View.
posted by kitty teeth at 3:06 PM on February 25, 2008


Best answer: Ross Cutlery at 310 S Broadway in Los Angeles does an insane sharpening job. They do ceramic knives and are one of the certified sharpeners for some ceramic knives under warranty. The only reason this didn't happen to me is because I read that post, and I still cut through 2 layers of the dish towel and came this close to drawing blood. The also do inexpensive overnight turnaround for knives you mail them.
posted by hindmost at 3:29 PM on February 25, 2008


If you would like to be able to sharpen your own knives, this is easy to use and does a fine job. My wife loves it.
posted by Daddy-O at 3:36 PM on February 25, 2008


Is it worth hauling my Henckel kitchen knife block down to Ross Cutlery and having them sharpen up my bog standard home kitchen knives?
posted by Justinian at 4:26 PM on February 25, 2008


My bog standard Henckel is the knife that almost removed my fingertips, so you should be able to get a good edge out of them, but in my opinion it's not worth the nightmare of finding parking and whatnot in that area and it's a cheaper sanity cost to spend the couple of bucks to mail it to them and get it back in 2 days.
posted by hindmost at 4:43 PM on February 25, 2008


Justinian: The whole block? Do you use them all? No point taking your whole block of 18 knives down to the cutlery if you've only used 2 of them ever.

Also, do you have or regularly use the steel on your knives? If you don't use them a lot, chances are your knives are still very usable with a few swipes across the sharpening steel. Take a large cook's knife and a small paring knife down to the cutlery store, ask them to show you how to properly use a steel, buy one, and use it. When you start noticing that the steel isn't giving you the desired sharpness, then take it in for a professional sharpening.
posted by junesix at 5:12 PM on February 25, 2008


The guy at the Mar Vista farmer's market is also at International Silks and Fabrics parking lot on Fridays. It's a lot closer than Mar Vista. It's located on Beverly Blvd about 3 blocks east of La Cienega on the north side of the street. His name is Gary and he is there from 10:00-2:00 (actually I don't know when he gets there but I know he leaves at 2:00) He does good work (he's got some of my knives right now), is reasonable with his prices and is a man with a good heart. Let him know the "Milkman" sent you.
posted by goalyeehah at 5:22 PM on February 25, 2008


There may be a knife sharpener at the big Hollywood farmer's market. Sunday mornings at Ivar & Sunset.
posted by conrad53 at 8:31 AM on February 26, 2008


Seconding Ross Cutlery. They did a great job on my stainless Wustof santoku knife.
posted by HotPatatta at 6:39 PM on February 26, 2008


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