13th October - Knife Sharpening with Community Cutlery

About the day:

• 10am: Arrival and welcome chat

• 10:15am: Tea/Coffee

• 10:20am: Introduction

• 1pm: Break for lunch

• 2pm: Continue workshop

• 4pm: Finish

The day includes lunch and snacks, and unlimited tea and coffee.

This workshop is not suitable for children.

About the workshop, as told by Gaz:

Are you harbouring a desire to be able to sharpen your own knives? Does it feel within your reach but still somehow completely unfathomable?

As a professional knife sharpening service we speak with our customers about this topic a lot, so much so we've lost count of how many times we've heard...

"I'd really like to be able to sharpen my own knives but I'm worried about ruining them."

"I've had a whetstone for years but I've never got around to learning how to use it."

"I'm not really sure about the angles."

These are absolutely valid reasons for being wary of getting started, properly sharpening a knife using traditional methods can be tricky, but by breaking down the process and giving you a little guidance along the way, we're confident you'll leave the workshop with the skills you need become a competent and confident home sharpener.

We’ll start the workshop with a lesson in the all important sharpening theory, then we’ll give a comprehensive demonstration of the techniques you’ll need to know before moving on to a big chunk of time for you to sharpen your own knives under our guidance.

The bulk of the workshop will be focussed on standard kitchen knives, so we recommend that you bring around 4 of your own to work on, we’ll also save some time at the end of the session to talk you through how to sharpen serrated knives and scissors, so feel free to bring these along as well, in addition to any sharpening equipment you might already own and want to ask questions about, although don’t worry if you don’t own any as everything will be provided on the day (except the knives!).