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Now you can treat you knives to professional knife sharpening in Shrewsbury, and it’s available by post too, right through the UK.
There’s no point in a blunt knife; sharpness is the reason for the blade’s very being. Professional knife sharpeners, Certified Sharpeners, have the know-how to produce that ultra edge and replicate it with extreme accuracy on almost any blade, producing a product that usually outperforms the ex-factory product.
A good knife is a good tool; a good knife that’s sharp is an excellent tool, producing paramount results with minimal effort.
King of the professional chef’s tools is the knife. Costing considerable amounts of money and very much cared for by their owners, they need to be sharpened by equally dedicated and qualified professional sharpeners.
We are often asked which knives we recommend, and it’s products not from overseas as you might have assumed but from a very long-established British maker from Sheffield, the place stainless steel was invented, and they’re called Samuel Staniforth. They’ve been in business for 160 years, so we can be sure they really know what they’re doing with knives and steel.
Domestic users may not use the quality of knives the chef uses, but many keen cooks do. However, that does not mean they have to accept second-best; the mundane knife of no repute deserves to be good and sharp. We use exactly the same processes to get the keenest practical edge.
Knives, of course, come in many shapes, sizes, and varieties of duties. That doesn’t really matter too much as most follow the came principle. Some are flexible, some stout, some pointy, some straight. It matters not; the same principles apply, and the outcome is a sharpened blade, and we can sharpen those herb knives (Mezzaluna) that need a keen edge to be effective.
The first thing we do is inspect the blade; it’s rare for them to be perfect. All we see are, of course, blunt, but they may be nicked, torn, or be damaged in some other way, a broken tip or bellied blade. We pre-grind almost every knife in a machine that gets the blade smooth, with no nicks and is equally bevelled to an angle of around 15°. This is done dry but using a special abrasive, CBN or Cubic Boron Nitride; this has the unusual characteristic of producing very little heat in the process of material removal, so the hardening of the knife is undamaged.
We use a dedicated machine from Sweden called the Tormek T8 to finish grind knives. This has a water-immersed grinding wheel with various grade grits. When we grind on this, the waste metal is washed away with the water and collected by magnets, and the blade is kept literally stone cold by the water.
Implementing some trigonometry is key: known is the grinding wheel diameter, which we are about to use (250mm is the norm).
In the dedicated jig, we set the distance to the blade edge to a known amount (say 140mm). If the edge angle we need is, say, 15°, then it’s possible to calculate the distance from the wheel to the jig rest, setting the height of the jig rest. This way, we arrive at the grind angle spot on each and every time, irrespective of the variable blade widths we are grinding.
Water Cooled, Debris Flushed Away
Precision Angle Set Up By Trigonometry
Exceptional Finish On The Blade Edge
Our Tormek T8 grinds a new edge while underwater; zero heat is generated and passed to the blade, no loss of temper, so no damage and minimal material removed, with all the cut metal flushed away and captured by magnets.
We use several honing techniques; the methods and materials used are dependent on the products we are working on. Here is a polishing mop with white-grade polishing media designed for stainless steel.
One final polish on the mop with nothing added to make for a good finish.
Will the new, sharpened edge perform? This one certainly does - all are tested like this.
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