To the point sharpening

provides knife sharpening services to business and residential customers in The Portland area. I use primarily Japanese waterstones, but also diamond abrasives, or whatever the job calls for. I charge a flat fee to sharpen any knife with repairs or modifications extra.
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General Sharpening PRicing
All blades, shears, and tools are charged at a flat rate by the piece. That covers sharpening and minor repairs. Major repairs carry extra charges in addition to the sharpening cost. There are also some add on services you can add to your sharpening to make it pop that much more.
Standard Sharpening service
This is the most popular service and takes good care of the majority of kitchen and pocket knives regardless of size or origin.  I have sharpened more than a 100,000 knives this way to many happy customers. I use a horizontal Japanese waterstone wheel to sharpen each blade to 1000 grit and then I polish it off with a leather wheel or strop.
All this is only $8 
Garden tools, pruners, loppers, and food processor blades are sharpened on a belt sander and are $10
Axes, hatchets, and lawnmower blades are sharpened for $15
Premium sharpening options are also available.
freehand stone sharpening
Many Japanese and other higher quality knives require a more delicate touch or maybe just a different type of finish.  Those knives I sharpen on Japanese water stones from Naniwa, Nano-hone, Imanishi, and Shapton up to 10,000 grit. I finish that off with a stropping on a leather or cork strop loaded with some diamond stropping compound. This is next level sharpness. This service is for high end knives or those who appreciate a super fine edge. This service is $20 for your standard double beveled knife and $30 and up for wide beveled and single beveled knives.
scissor and shear sharpening
    $10  gets you a very nice sharp pair of scissors!
I've sharpened tens of thousands of scissors and shears for kitchens, crafts, sewing, barber and industrial work. I have one customer who I sharpen at least 200 pair per week, so I stay in practice for sure.  I sharpen all those on my Twice as Sharp scissor sharpener which is used in scissor factories. I can sharpen most shears with a German style bevel just like your craft scissors but don't work on Japanese convexed bevels. 
Guided whetstone Sharpening
Knives that require a perfectly shaped bevel at an exact angle a human cannot produce on its own needs sharpening with a guided system. This service is $20 per blade for sharpening a satin or everyday working edge, $8 extra for highly polished or mirror edges for those showpieces and shelf queens, and $5 additional for tanto blades. ​These are mostly pocket knives for the discerning everyday carry enthusiast or collector. People who tell me that they need their knife to have that perfect 17 degree angle, or whatever their preference, need this service. Also knives made of powdered metals, "super steels", and other tough to sharpen steels are good candidates for this service since I need to use diamond or similar hard abrasives to properly do the job. I have quite the collection of those stones for my TSPROF KO3 Pro system and also my EdgePro knife sharpening system. 
repairs
,broken tips $5 and up

large chips $5 and up

reprofiling the edge $10 and up. If you can put your edge on a cutting board and see light from behind the knife where it should be touching the cutting board you need this service. 

removing a large portion of the bolster $5 and up. If the heel end of the edge directly in front of the bolster is high up off the cutting board you need this service.

thinning $40 and up

rust removal $5 and up if it's bad, but most rust spots which aren't very bad I fix for free.

cleaning your knife before handing it over is a must. If I need to remove fish scales, paint, glue and tape from all those packages you've been opening, or anything else nasty it's $5 and up.

Repairs are evaluated in person upon drop-off and will be assessed and priced according to difficulty and the time it takes to complete. 

How to get an appointment:

Please email me or click the button below to schedule services.
​Dropoff your knives at my Lake Oswego home for all services. Mobile services are no longer available. Turnaround time for sharpening is typically 24 hours from your dropoff on weekdays. Friday dropoffs are ready on Mondays. If you just have a knife or two that don’t require big repairs I can typically sharpen while you wait.

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