Subject: Re: sharpening knives
Largely irrelevant reply:

My haircut lady (actually my wife’s hair dresser who also cuts my hair) has a pair of shears she bought in Japan … for over $500. For a single pair of scissors. Holy Chihuahua!

She says there’s nothing like it, and if she lost them she’d happily buy another. When it’s time to be sharpened, she mails it back to Japan and they do it there, because …. ???

I don’t know how often that happens; rarely I presume, but I didn’t think to ask, I was so gobsmacked at her paying up for a simple pair of scissors. Personally I’d just get something at Costco and be done with it.

The discussion here about knives has been educational. Thanks all for that.