The 'Sharp' Blog
The Science Behind a Perfectly Sharp Knife...
There's a moment every cook knows — that frustrating drag as a knife crushes a tomato instead of slicing cleanly through it. It's not just annoying as well messy. It's actually dangerous and It's not just wear and tear. It all comes down to science...
Stay in the Loop: Now on SMS & WhatsApp
We're always looking for better ways to keep you informed — and now we're making it even easier to stay connected with Knife Sharp. We're excited to announce that we're now using SMS and WhatsApp to keep our customers up to date...
Now Accepting Klarna & USDC Stablecoin
At Knife Sharp, we’re always looking for ways to make your experience with us smoother, faster, and more flexible. That’s why we’re excited to announce that we now accept both Klarna and USDC stablecoin as payment methods...
Now Offering Delivery via Royal Mail
At Knife Sharp, we’re always looking for ways to make life easier (and sharper!) for our customers, we are very proud to say that we now offer delivery via Royal Mail, using the tracked and insured, next day delivery service, Royal Mail Tracked 24®...
Identifying fake & counterfeit Global knives
Here at Knife Sharp, we sharpen hundreds of Global knives every week. We love them as they are high quality and hold a fantastic sharp edge. However more recently we have been seeing more and more fake Global knives come to us...
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New and Improved! Knife Sharp Chefs Knife
We have been selling our specially designed Knife Sharp chefs knives for a good while now, with great feedback from our customers, but for 2024 we've decided to give it a bit of a upgrade! Our new knife is still specially designed and made for us...
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Why Sharp Knives are Safe Knives!
Here at Knife Sharp we often come across people saying they don’t want their knives sharpening as they feel like they will cut their fingers more often when using them. This is the exact opposite to what will happen! A sharp knife is a much safer knife, here’s why…
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Bevel Profiles in Knife Sharpening
Here at Knife Sharp we live and breathe all things knife related. As such we obsess over the details that make the process of knife sharpening play a crucial role in maintaining the performance and longevity of knives. However, one aspect that...
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The Fascinating History Behind Knife Sharpening
Here at Knife Sharp we love sharpening knives, and Dan, our resident history buff and knife sharpener extraordinaire, really loves both sharp knives and the history of making them sharp. So much so we asked him to write a blog post...
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We are now available to chat on WhatsApp!
In this ever changing world we at Knife Sharp try our best to keep up with new ways of communicating, as such we are now available to chat on WhatsApp. We know its a pain some times to write an email or pick up the phone so you can contact...
Global Knife Sharpening Service
One of the most common questions we get asked here at Knife Sharp is ‘Do we sharpen Global Knives?’ The answer is most certainly yes! In fact, we see more Global Knives pass through our knife sharpening workshop than any other brand of knife...
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Scissors Sharpening? Yes we do!
Here at Knife Sharp as well as sharpening all manner of knives, we also sharpen scissors. All for the same price of a knife, so feel free to include your scissors when you send in your knives to us. We sharpen most types of scissors including general, kitchen, fabric...
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Need a knife to keep you going?
Are you sending all your knives to us to be sharpened and need something to use while they're gone? We are now offering our specially designed chefs knife to be included in your first shipping box so you have a knife to keep use while yours are away being sharpened...
Is it worth sharpening cheap knives?
You have a kitchen drawer full of cheap knives that are all blunt and chipped and rather than get them sharpened you are thinking of throwing them away and spending money on new ones. Well stop right there! We can make those cheap knives as sharp as most expensive knives…
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Team 'Knife Sharp' goes charity C90 racing!
Knife Sharp had a weekend away from the sharpening stones last weekend to go compete in a charity motorcycle endurance race called the Plop Enduro! This is an 8-hour endurance race organised by the S&D Armada Motorcycle Club...
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As Seen In Delicious Magazine...
We are extremely proud to be featured in this month’s Delicious magazine (March 2021), which is a bumper Easter special! Food editor Jen Bedlow tried out our knife sharpening and repair service and gave us a 5-star review...
Next Day Insured Shipping with DPD
To continue to offer the best possible service to our customers we are now offering the option of next day, fully insured up to £500 shipping from our new shipping partner DPD...
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UK BBQ Review: 5 Star Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
UK BBQ Review has just written a great unsolicited review of our knife sharpening & repair service and published it to their website (which by the way is full of fantastic BBQ'ing tips!) You can have a look here to see what they thought of it...
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January 2021 Covid-19 Update: We Are Fully Open
Here at Knife Sharp we continue to operate at full capacity throughout the coronavirus pandemic and will continue to operate at full capacity throughout the nationwide lockdown announced on 2nd January 2021...
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Check out our billboard!
If you are traveling along the M62 over the next few months see if you can spot our new billboard at the side of the motorway. It’s on the eastbound side of the M62 just after junction 27, close to Ikea. You can see it from both sides of the motorway but the best viewing is from the eastbound...
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All About Serrated Knives
When people say serrated knives, most of the time they are referring to a bread knife, or in some cases a tomato or steak knife, but there are a lot of different variations of serrated knives both in the kitchen, and on outdoor knives. Here at Knife Sharp we can sharpen the most common type of serrated knife but read on for the full lowdown...
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