Efficient
Tools should accomplish the job quickly and cleanly. With a newly sharpened knife, for example, you’ll be amazed that things you previously thought were difficult are now achieved swiftly and with less effort.
Safe
Less effort means less force put into the stroke of the tool. Less force means less potential of a dangerous slip leading to a bad accident. It becomes easier to use the tool with proper, safer form.
Easy and Fun
Put it together – and you have tools performing well so that your jobs are made easier and safer, which can elevate your job from frustration and drudgery into the joy of cooking, creating, learning a new craft, or perfecting a lifelong hobby.
Why Sharpen a Tool?
Hand tools are very efficient and easy to use only when they are maintained in good condition. Working with a dull or damaged tool usually ends in frustration … after you have expended much more sweat and tears than should ever be
necessary to accomplish the task. If you want easy and efficient, you want quality sharpening.
How I Sharpen
Skills, experience, and quality equipment yield top-notch results. I use cutting edge equipment from industry leading companies in Europe, the United States, and Japan, as well as time-tested natural stones and abrasives that have
been prized by sharpeners for 3000 years.
Each Tool is Unique
Your tool will be sharpened with the best practices according to its individual material, design, condition, and intended use. Moderate damage can be repaired, and even a roughly used tool can, in many cases, be restored to full
function.
Always Done by Hand
Sharpening is always done with high quality abrasives and industry leading equipment, such as water cooled Tormek grinders, and various artificial and natural bench stones. Whether setting a new bevel on an old chef’s knife, repairing
damage to a trusty chisel, grinding the chips out of a favorite axe, or just honing that favorite pocket knife back to a razor edge, you can trust that all your tools will receive my fullest personal attention to their individual
needs.
Location
515 N Commerce Avenue
Front Royal, VA 22630
(Enter through Happy Creek Antiques)
Hours
Fridays and Saturdays
9am to 5pm
Phone
(540) 671-3023