Sharpening Made Easy

Knife Sharpening Information and Equipment

"always keep an edge on yr knife, son, always keep an edge on yr knife"
From "Always keep an edge on yr knife" by Corb Lund 
Web Sharpening Made Easy
Sharpening Made Easy

Good cooks deserve sharp knives

This 5 chapter tutorial will teach you how to select equipment and sharpen any knife or edge tool to a shaving sharp edge. Table of contents is below.

 If you like this web site, you'll love our best selling book. The book has more material and better illustrations than the web site. The price is less than printing out the entire website. Click the photo for more information. Sharpening Made Easy has been called the best knife sharpening book by Knife World magazine. A webpage with current sharpener reviews and other new material is available for book buyers.

 Consulting and teaching: We have provided sharpening expertise to the food processing, vegetable harvesting, rubber and leather industries as well as training to over 150 sharpening businesses. How can we help you? Contact Steve at bottorff dot com

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Sharpening Made Easy- Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1 - INTRODUCTION, SHARPNESS TESTING, KNIFE SHARPENING EQUIPMENT

  • Chapter 2 - KNIFE SHARPENING EQUIPMENT continued

  • Chapter 3 - THE KNIFE SHARPENING PROCESS, HOW TO SHARPEN A KNIFE

  • Chapter 4 - ADVANCED STUFF - Knife Steels, Sharpening Abrasives, Theory,Stropping, Electric Machines

  • Chapter 5 - MISCELLANEOUS STUFF - Sharpening Methods, Professional Knife Sharpening machines

     Chapters 1, 2 and 3 were printed in the June and July 1999 issues of Knife World as A PRIMER ON KNIFE SHARPENING.

     More Sharpening Information, click here.

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 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 November 13, 2011

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