Sharpening Services

This service includes tailored sharpening using my custom-built setup of low-speed, water-cooled ceramic belts and rotary whestones. Knives are finished on 1000-3000 grit stones and stropped on leather.

This service includes hand-sharpening on a progression of traditional whetstones. Available upon request for any knife, and done by default for traditional Japanese knives.

Traditional Japanese knives are particularly nuanced - for this reason, extra skill and care is required for their sharpening and treatment.

Japanese knives are sharpened based on their type and condition, and are treated in an Extra Analogue fashion - by this I mean less time on the belts and rotary stones and more time on whetstones, with sharpening done exclusively by hand on whetstones whenever possible (when there are no repairs needed).

Factors that I take into account are: the knife’s unique purpose and style, angles, condition of the blade, age, type of steel, origin, and state of the steel (rust removal and/or preservation of patina).

Hand-sharpening on whetstones for wide bevel Japanese knives where the large primary bevels are sharpened (vs secondary or micro bevel)

$20 minimum

Serrated sharpening ranges from free to $12. If the serrations are worn down (or if the knife has micro serrations), I will do a free touch up. If the serrations are intact I will do a full sharpen.

I don’t sharpen ceramic knives at this time!

I don’t sharpen pocket knives at this time! My whetstone setup & process is tailored to culinary knives.