It's more of the fact that it's a pain to grind them because of the size
and scale of the work. If you need to grind a nick out of the bevel it's
a tremendous amount of steel to remove. Really the only way to do it is
with a horizontal grinder, something like what folks use to sharpen
power planer and jointer blades. If you have something like the Makita
horizontal wet grinder it makes grinding and honing these big blades a
cinch. Josh

On Oct 8, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Mark Lovett Wells wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 9:55 AM, WesG <wesg@g...> wrote:
>> Look for bad nicks in the blade, they charge extra to sharpen those.
>> Several people on this thread mentioned having Lion sharpen the
> blades. Usually you guys say, "Do it yourself!" Is there some reason
> the blades must be sharpened by Lion?

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