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@ladymatmac Yea I've dabbled on that one. What I like about the Home Service Expert and Sweaty Startup is that it focuses on home service businesses. I really never wanna touch online businesses or like all the silicon valley startups and there arent too many podcasts that focus on the sweaty...

@z03yr04ch I start with 120 or 200 depending on the damage and go up to 12k and a leather strop!

@aseyesee Haha that means a lot! Thanks!

@marcbroussard lol literally just normal knives. Mostly Wusthof, Cutco, Shun and some random cheap ones. Also do scissors, pocket knives, garden tools, and machetes and axes here and there.

@ketzerei Thanks!

@heinrichling Yea thats the plan. Actually was planning on building my mobile set up today. Just bought a generator which was the reason I couldnt before.

@jeltja Funny you mention that. I started when I was 15 or 16 and didnt have a car then and would bicycle. It's just too slow and kinda risky bicycling with a backpack full of knives.

@pentecostal1ness I think that's a tad risky because then you have the problem of dealing with a third party. For the most part everyone that lives outside of my delivery range is very happy to drop them off at my shop.

@thelogicalatheist Sure!

@mylastduchess I've helped about 15 guys around the country essentially copy-and-paste this exact same idea so basically yea.

@maddielovesbaseball I'm still figuring out the price structure. I don't want it to get too complicated so I havent even used my pricing structure for small orders that I have on my website. Average orders are usually 4-10 items so like $24-$60.

@jdean Lol can't stop hustling now. It's basically an addiction at this point

@warrina Haha thanks. All those things are so incredibly important in building trust with the customer!

@sittingathisfeet Oh shit whaddup thanks I’ll definitely make sure to stay VERY far from that website

@mb_c I literally just taught myself and learned more through trial and error (and I've never actually ruined a knife). Literally so easy to learn if you have a good system that takes the human error out of the equation.

@johnlxyz Yea the blade grinder is the best investment I made recently. The original version has a few problems like scratching the side of the blade and that the belt goes in opposite directions on each side of the blade. You just have so much more control with the blade grinder.

@thecabinetbarn the guy in the pic is Nick Huber who started Sweaty Startup, the website, the podcast, and this subreddit. He kinda runs the place so its basically his sub.

@alchemist_jay Yea I wear glasses, a mask, and noise-canceling headphones (to listen to books). Overall very little danger though compared to actual metal working

@skyrover Yea that's true. I 100% know that there a lot of businesses out there that do what I do. The thing is that a lot of those are strictly for restaurants. Residential folks don't really have any options for quick turnaround services. Plus knives are as common as toothbrushes. Every single...

@kayla0612 Thanks. I know exactly thats where I need to go. All the books I read talk about Standard Operating Procedures constatnly. The key is just actually getting around to doing it lol. I hadn't thought about the franchising like that. That's really smart