Product Review

Nobody cares as much as you do about sharpening your knives. If you send them off to be sharpened it is likely that a lot more material will be removed than is necessary. This decreases the life span of your knives.

Health & Safety in the work place. Knives which are continually used on commercial premises must always be kept sharp - a blunt or dull knife is dangerous because it requires more pressure and is more likely to slip and cause an injury. This is the single most important reason to keep all knives sharp.

It's said because it's true. A dull knife can easily slip off of an object rather than cut through it, but is still sharp enough to cut you. The same can be said of any tool that can't perform the way it's designed to.

Storing in a cluttered drawer can chip the blade and handle, and most definitely will make the knife dull. In order to keep your knives sharp, store them in a way that stabilizes and separates them. The two best ways to do this are knife blocks and magnet strips.

A sharp knife will cut cleanly when using a slicing motion to cut through paper. A razor sharp knife can cut the paper cleanly by just pressing down on the edge of paper without any slicing at all.

Another test is to shave the hair on your arms. While we recommend caution using this method, it can be very useful.