True owner operated, mom n pop business for sharpening cutlery of all kinds, for home use and commercial use, in the handy format of a mobile sharpening truck. The abbreviated review is to say if you're looking for top notch sharpening at super reasonable rates you'll want to find this business. So to start I will link the page on their site that has their scheduled locations. https://tvmsharpening.com/schedule/
Right now they seem to have the truck parked in parking lots of small community grocers. Works for us! They'll also do house calls, if you have the amount of work to justify it. I'm thinking an annual or bi-annual community event in my neighborhood for the truck to park and neighbors to get their knives sharpened would be a great idea.
The sharpening tradesman, Robert Barkley, has a sharpening shop set up in the back of the truck and a very nice woman, maybe the missus, is in the front taking in the items to be sharpened, writing out the invoices, providing time estimates for the items to be completed. (Plan on a couple of hours, plus or minus, depending on how many jobs are ahead of you and how many items you have to drop off. They will text you when job is done.)
Both delightful people and I knew this would be so when on our first encounter Robert mentioned getting a pair of shears someone had brought in ahead of us as being a "bearcat" to reassemble for the unusual spring mechanism . That is the phrase used by my dad's relatives from the mid-west in the day and it was music to my ears. And to give you an idea of the fun sense of humor of this owner, when I unwrapped the knives at home I found his business card tucked in with a band aid stapled to the back. Sharp knives...band aid.. Clever! ;-)
The first tranche of kitchen knives we brought in left the truck the sharpest they've been in a long time! Perfect edges. As a...umm...well seasoned home cook who has been passionate about local food sourcing and cooking for umpteen decades, cooking keeps me sane, this was a great start on the short list of 5 items I gave my husband of umpteen decades "minus" in preparation for a "Big Zero" birthday I have coming up. At the top was, "Get my knives professionally sharpened." Now he can check that one off and move on to the next item on the list. An equally practical entry, "Get my watch band resized." (Lucky for him have always been a cheap date. ;-)) read more