Sharpening Services

This service includes tailored sharpening using my custom-built setup of low-speed water belts and rotary whestones. All knives are hand-finished on whetstones and leather strops.

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

Sharpening for everyday carry/pocket knives. Fixed, folding, etc.

I don’t sharpen ceramic knives at this time!

Removal of material along the entire edge. If the chip is small I’ll repair it free of charge.

If a chip removal is quite large, thinning may be necessary to ensure the knife is not too thick behind the edge.

Removing material from the spine towards the edge and creating a new tip. I’ll often repair broken tips for free if they’re relatively small.

Rust removal and tsubaki oil treatment