That’s a convoluted answer for me. I hand sharpen knives and straight razors as a hobby. Been doing it for like 30 years and have several hundreds of dollars in diamond and wetstones. I doubt there’s 500 people in the country (US) that are better than I am at hand sharpening.
The convoluted part is that I could charge people to sharpen knives. I just don’t want to.
That’s a convoluted answer for me. I hand sharpen knives and straight razors as a hobby. Been doing it for like 30 years and have several hundreds of dollars in diamond and wetstones. I doubt there’s 500 people in the country (US) that are better than I am at hand sharpening.
The convoluted part is that I could charge people to sharpen knives. I just don’t want to.
Wise person. I got good at sharpening, and I ended up monetising it as a hobby, which I inevitably regretted
I got good at sharpening because I had a bunch of weirdly shaped knives, like this saddler’s round knife
Nice. This is my great uncles straight razor. He came from Germany and had a barbershop in the 1940’s around Kansas City, so it’s around 80 years old.
If you’re good at something you shouldn’t feel bad about charging for it. A lot of the economy is based on trading money for skilled labor.
I’d rather not ruin a hobby by making it a job.