My mom has a philosophy on kitchen tools and gadgets that reads something like "buy everything, take care of nothing." Since forcing her to relinquish her rights to well, anything in the kitchen, I discovered she has been stockpiling knives since I was born it appears. Instead of sharpening them or taking them to a professional, she just buys new ones. This begins the story of how the Sharp Shop became a part of my quest to save the kitchen.
Tucked into an unassuming strip mall that appears to be mostly vacant The Sharp Shop has been around for years providing services to the home chef and professionals. Besides providing knife sharpening services they sharpen other things like hair scissors and other things that need....sharpening.
I think it was the owner who helped me and he was very nice and only charged me $5/blade which I thought was a sweet deal particularly after attempting to sharpen those same knives myself with a sharpening stone. Have you ever tried it? Don't bother unless you have a lot of free time on your hands and enjoy working hard at something with minimal and/or disappointing results. I don't have the time or energy to figure out how to sharpen them myself and that's what places like the Sharp Shop are for. To make my life just a little less complicated.
I got my knives back in a few days and they were like brand new. Tomato: sliced! Carrot: chopped! Onion: minced! And the tears were from the onion and not from a dull knife.
The only drawback is that this place keeps government hours: Monday-Friday 9am-5:30pm. Not open weekends. Not convenient. But if I was in business for myself and could set those hours without losing business I'd do it too. So kudos to you Sharp Shop man!
All in all a great experience and I'll be taking care of most if not all of my cutlery needs here.