On Wednesday, September 14, 2011 10:20:47 PM UTC-4, willshak wrote:
HeyBub wrote the following:

30-second video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=Vi2gzCrS-fE



That's good to know. I'll have to remember that if I lose my knife

sharpening steel that came with the kitchen knife set.

At least til then, I won't have to dump the coffee from the cup to

sharpen the blade. :-)



BTW, when I lived in the Bronx, NY in the 1940s, a guy used to come

around regularly on a horse drawn cart with a foot operated grinding

wheel and hawked his knife sharpening business. People would come out of

their apartments with handfuls of knives for sharpening.

There was another guy with a horse drawn cart that came around yelling

out "I Cash Clothes" who would pay cash for used clothing.

I wonder if they ever came around at the same time where you could sell

old clothing to the one guy and take the money and get your knives

sharpened by the other guy.







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Bill

In Hamptonburgh, NY

In the original Orange County. Est. 1683

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Our local fine wine shoppe started advertising recently that a sharpener would be at the store every Thursday evening to sharpen whatever you needed sharpened; knives, chisels, etc.

When I was a kid in the early 1950's there was a guy who came through my grandmother's neighborhood buying scrap material for resale, crying "Paper! Rags!" He was known as the pepper-X man from his accented call. My grandfather used to save newspapers and tinfoil from his cigarette packs to sell to him.

Paul