Within weeks of publishing Start a Knife Sharpening Service, I shut down my sharpening business in Santa Fe and moved across the country to Brooklyn, NY. It was a move I had been wanting to make my whole life. Because of the pandemic, many people moved out of New York which opened up apartments, brought rent prices down, and made a ton of jobs a...

The answer to this question depends on many factors. Some people take hours to sharpen a single knife on a Wicked Edge, while others sharpen knives in just a few minutes each. These are the key factors:  Do you plan to reprofile the edge (change the angle)? Or do you plan to measure the current edge angle and then simply sharpen using that angl...

Starting a sharpening service isn't hard. There are two primary tasks you'll need to accomplish to get started: Set up your business so customers can find you and you can accept their sharpening orders, and then learn how to sharpen knives.  It took me two days to set up my sharpening service. This included building my website, setting up busine...

Many people get so used to using dull knives that they actually develop the wrong muscle memory for how to use their knives. When using a dull knife, more pressure is required to force the knife through object being cut. When using a sharp knife, significantly less pressure is required to get the job done.  "A sharp knife is a safe knife and a d...

When you find a customer who knows the value in using sharp knives, and you have convinced them to hire you to sharpen their knives, it's important to maximize the amount of revenue you earn. When you sharpen two or three knives for a customer, you will make money, but you will have to attract more customers to find success with your business. M...

When thinking about sharpening knives, the most common goal people associate with the task is to make the knife sharp. Of course, that's definitely a large component of the job - to create a refined edge so it effortlessly separates the object being cut. The other aspect, which is less commonly considered, is the material removal from the edge. ...