I was wondering if you could help out Soo Oh. Does anyone know where she can get her knives sharpened professionally? I just do it myself, so I don't know how to help her. Does anyone know?
Thanks,
Dan
PS. here is her message.
Hello!
I really enjoy reading your blog, and I was hoping you could help answer a question for me that I can't seem to get answered by anyone I know personally (or if you could open it up to the floor, that would be awesome, too). Where does one get knives professionally sharpened in Seoul? Any recommendations? I hear that the shoe shiners/cobblers can do them, but I don't know if they all do it or if I have to see them with the spinning whetstone or what. The only other info I've found on the Internet is hereabouts, http://tinyurl.com/5r67rn, but I'm pretty uncomfortable with just walking into a restaurant and asking the owners if they could sharpen my santoku. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Soo Oh
Thanks,
Dan
PS. here is her message.
Hello!
I really enjoy reading your blog, and I was hoping you could help answer a question for me that I can't seem to get answered by anyone I know personally (or if you could open it up to the floor, that would be awesome, too). Where does one get knives professionally sharpened in Seoul? Any recommendations? I hear that the shoe shiners/cobblers can do them, but I don't know if they all do it or if I have to see them with the spinning whetstone or what. The only other info I've found on the Internet is hereabouts, http://tinyurl.com/5r67rn, but I'm pretty uncomfortable with just walking into a restaurant and asking the owners if they could sharpen my santoku. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Soo Oh
Didn't you have a post like this a couple of months ago Dan?
ReplyDeleteIf my memory serves me, there was a discussion about knife sharpening before? (Freaky, but I don't know why I seem to remember this.)
I haven't tried but when I lived in Seoul about 2 years ago I was told to go to the big fish wholesale market south of the river. Can't remember the name of the market but everyone in Seoul seems to know it. Apparently there's a person who sharpens knives for the traders there. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteI would think the guys who make the gumdo swords would know a thing or two thats who I was recommended to go to
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