Me and my lovely lady at the market.

Our best-selling book Sharpening Made Easy How to Start Your Own Knife Sharpening Business booklet. Sharpening Service Updated LINKS to other WWW sites on knives and knife sharpening Link of the month -http://www.vieltools.com Web Sharpening Made Easy Good cooks deserve sharp knives.

Recommended Equipment Tormek Wet Grinder Paper Wheels F. Dick Commercial Knife Sharpeners   Belt Knife Sharpeners Twice As Sharp Scissor Sharpener Knives

• INTRODUCTION

• STONES
• • Table comparing grits of stones, grinding wheels and abrasives 
  • Chart of Abrasive cutting speed vs. sharpness 
  • USING OIL AND WATER ON STONES
  
  
• GUIDES
• • ROD-GUIDED SYSTEMS
  • EdgePal
    
  • Warthog Hunter, Elite, Prestige and Diamond
  • EdgePro
    
  • SKARB
  
  
• CROCK STICKS

• SLOT GADGETS
• • Warthog V-Sharp
  • Henckels Twinsharp 
  • FireStone 1302 Knife Sharpener
  • Chef'sChoice Model 450
  • Global Shinkansen Sharpener
  • Meyerco Sharpen-It
  • Furi Tech Edge Pro
  • NEW - Edgemaker 4-step Sharpening System
    

• MINI SHARPENERS

• ELECTRIC SHARPENING MACHINES

• • FireStone / Diamond Stone
    
  • Chef'sChoice
  • Wet Wheels
  • Tormek
    
  • Paper Wheels
  • How to use paper wheels
  • Belt Sanders
    
  • Professional
  
  
• USING STEELS

• CONVEX EDGES

• SHARPENING SERRATED KNIVES

• SHARPENING AN AX
  

• SHARPENING SYSTEMS WE HAVE USED

• RECOMMENDATIONS 
  

• SHARPENING AS A BUSINESS
• • Prices
    
  • Sharpening at Farmer's Markets
    
  • Produce harvesting in California 
    
  • The portable sharpener

• PHOTOS - a page of misc sharpening photos
  

• LINKS and TABLES

• HISTORICAL SHARPENERS
• • Blankner's Knife Sharpener - Cleveland, OH 1930s
  • Loray sharpener instructions for manual models 2B2 and 2B3
  • Loray sharpener instructions for M190 motorized belt sharpener

• ARTICLES BY OTHER AUTHORS

• • Cliff Stamp's Excellent website
  • Cliff's "World's Greatest Sharpener" contest
    
  • Sharpening Knives on the Tormek by Curtis Womack
  • The original Sharpening Secrets of a Pro article by John Juranitch
  • TORMEK: Why a blade needs to be re-ground to maintain the proper angle*
  • Chad Ward's eGullet Tutorial
    
  • Wayne Goddard's Edge Holding Tests.
  • Steels used by Knifemakers by Bob Engnanth
  • Here is a calculator that helps people find the right height for the knife spine when sharpening - it uses US coins:
    http://knives.mylamb.com/calc.htm
  • Build your own low-speed belt sander/sharpener http://www.backhomemagazine.com/Images/62_article3.pdf
  • Dave Martell's excellent article on sharpening serrated knives http://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/760830/
  
  
• Publicity
• • http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2007/sep/02/on-the-cutting-edge-of-sharpening/
  • http://users.ameritech.net/knives/sunpress.htm 
  • http://users.ameritech.net/knives/CleveMag.JPG

• • If your sharpening interests include beauty shears and clippers, consider subscribing to On The Edge newsletter by Jim O'Donnell  http://www.ontheedgenews.com/  If your interest also includes saws, router blades, etc. try the Sharpeners Report from Patti Anderson <sharpenersreport@chibardun.net>  Both newsletters advertise new and used equipment.

  • There are several interesting discussion groups about sharpening on Yahoo Groups
  • • http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharpnet/ - a group of professional sharpeners, very active, largely about beauty shears and clipper blades
      
    • http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tormekusers/ - like it says, Tormek users.  Moderately active
      
    • http://groups.yahoo.com/group/howtosharpen/ - a group for people with general sharpening questions.  Low activity
      
    • http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharpeningmadeeasy/ - a group to discuss sharpening with the author and readers of Sharpening Made Easy. Low activity
      
    • http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharpening/ - a general sharpening group, low activity
      
  • My publisher is offering a free three month subscription to Knife World,- go to
    http://tinyurl.com/267m8 then click the free trial button on the left.

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