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Originally Posted by svandamme
Well yeah, but you said it's your hobby to sharpen knives, so clearly you're not assigning that much value to your free time.. cause let's face it.. it's recreational sharpening knives , it's not your job  |
my free time is valuable because my job takes up most of it. And I dont sit around sharpening knives, but collecting them and maintaining them is a hobby. Not one of my primary hobbies, but unlike most people who maybe carry around a made in China folding knife from walmart, I buy expensive knives because I like them, and I dont want the edges anything less than perfect. Maybe Im a weirdo
Your build-it-yourself idea reminds me of my real passion which is collecting vinyl records. A lot of new records come warped. I dont like warped records. So, I paid the money and bought a tool (not accurate to call it a machine- I guess its more of a contraption) which consists of 2 very heavy steel plates, two round pieces of felt and a bag that has a heating element in it. You put the record between the two plates and felt, clamp it together and then place that in the heating bag. The bag heats to 120 degrees and you leave it plugged in for 3 hours etc....and then check to see if your record is now flat.
Many people would just say, make the metal plates or use heavy glass plates and stick the thing in the oven
No thanks. The $250 or whatever I spent on it has paid for itself many times over and im happy I spent the money because the contraption does the job properly