Sharpening Made Easy
Knife Sharpening Information and Equipment
"always keep an edge on yr knife, son, always keep an edge on yr
knife" - Corb Lund
Good Cooks Deserve Sharp Knives
This 5 chapter tutorial will teach you how to select knife sharpening equipment and sharpen any knife or edged tool to a shaving sharp edge. Table of contents is below.
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Consulting and teaching: We have provided sharpening expertise
to the food processing, vegetable harvesting, rubber and leather
industries as well as training to over 200 sharpening businesses. How
can we help you? Contact steve at bottorff dot com
- Quality knife and scissor sharpening using the Tormek wet grinder, Twice As Sharp and other high quality sharpening machines. We specialize in Global, Kershaw Shun, Wusthof, Henckel and other high end knives.
- Zagara's Marketplace
Lee Road, Cleveland Heights
Usually the third Sat 1: - 4:00
Check their flyer or call for dates. - North Union Farmers Market - Shaker Square: First and Last
Saturdays Last Sat April to First Sat October
Click Here for calendar
- And at my shop by appointment March through November 216-382-1777
- Other Local Sharpeners
- Other sharpening services in the USA and Canada
Sharpening Made Easy- Website Contents
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Chapter 1 - INTRODUCTION, SHARPNESS TESTING, KNIFE SHARPENING EQUIPMENT
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Chapter 2 - KNIFE SHARPENING EQUIPMENT continued
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Chapter 3 - THE KNIFE SHARPENING PROCESS, HOW TO SHARPEN A KNIFE
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Chapter 4 - ADVANCED STUFF - Knife Steels, Sharpening Abrasives, Theory,Stropping, Electric Machines
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Chapter 5 - MISCELLANEOUS STUFF - Knife Sharpening Methods, Professional Knife Sharpening machines
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Quotes
about Sharpening Made Easy
"Sharpening
Made Easy by Steve Bottorff. Steve Bottorff has tried just about
every knife sharpening system available. This slim book is a good
starting point if you're just getting into knife sharpening. Give it
as a gift ... to the sharpening-challenged." Chad Ward, eGullet
"RAZOR EDGE BOOK OF SHARPENING" Why should we carry this title, when we already sell the world's greatest knife sharpening book "SHARPENING MADE EASY"? I wondered the same thing, so after a good many years, we are finally going to drop the old book. If you have other books on sharpening, or if you don't but have never been happy with your efforts, may we suggest Steve Bottorff's $9.95 masterpiece SHARPENING MADE EASY. It's a gem! Mark D. Zalesky, Editor, KNIFE WORLD
Updated May 22, 2012
There are several interesting discussions about sharpening on
Yahoo
- http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/sharpnet/
- professional sharpeners, very active, largely about beauty shears and clipper blades
- http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/tormekusers/
- like it says, Tormek users. Moderately active
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/howtosharpen/
- for people with general sharpening questions. Low activity
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharpeningmadeeasy/
- discuss sharpening with the author and readers of Sharpening Made Easy. (Low activity)
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharpening/
- general sharpening, low activity