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That $8 chef's knife I bought at a flea market turned out to be my best tool
Picked up a beat up old knife at a flea market in Phoenix for 8 bucks last summer. Figured it would be trash but the blade had good weight. Sharpened it up and now it holds an edge better than the 120 dollar one I got from the restaurant supply store. Has anyone else found a hidden gem from a random spot like that?
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lewis.brian10d ago
And that's exactly the thing with old flea market knives, the steel quality was just different back then. @shanec61 is right, a good edge retention is something you can't fake with fancy branding. Once you get the hang of properly sharpening a vintage blade it'll outwork most of the new stuff on the market.
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alicer5310d ago
@shanec61 got it right about those cheap finds being hidden gems. My best score was a rusty bread knife at a garage sale for 3 bucks that now slices tomatoes like butter after I cleaned it up. Sometimes the random beat up tools just have that secret quality you can't find in the shiny new stuff.
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Keep at it and you'll probably find that same flea market knife stays sharp way longer than most expensive ones. My best find was a 5 dollar cleaver that cuts through chicken bones like butter.
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