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I bought a knife some months ago for just this purpose. Didn't get round to buying a steel though. Does anyone here know how to sharpen knives? Or how we find a suitable tutor for the Free Knife-In(tm)? I have been shown but I wouldn't be able to reproduce the technique - I definitely need hands-on lessons ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nigel Rantor" <wiggly@xxxxxx.xxx> To: <london.food@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 12:07 PM Subject: Re: [london.food] Knife Sharpening > James O'Brien wrote: >> We've moved onto our boat, hooray! And we've spent the last few weeks >> doing the usual stuff-amalgamation formalities with our kitchen utensils. >> We've got ourselves down to one set of very good Richardson Sheffield >> knives and one set of very crap cheap TK Maxx knives but they do hold a >> pair of scissors in the block and sometimes you don't want to use the >> good knives. > > [..snip..] > > I know this was discussed recently, and since there seemed to be quite a > bit of interest, how about someone who does know how to sharpen knives > give the rest of us a demo one night? > > I'm not sure a pub would be too happy with a bunch of knife-wielding > people dressed in black descending upon them, but maybe it would be a good > opportunity to visit Bermondsey[1] > > We could call it a Free Knife-In(tm), or perhaps something less > suggestive. > > I have been longing to go buy a new knife, so would be more than happy to > bring my current one (which really needs all the nicks taken out of it) > and possibly destroy it practising. > > n > > [1] Well, Kake suggested it when we went out for a meal. > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: > 269.6.6/795 - Release Date: 09/05/2007 15:07 > >There's stuff above here
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