True Grit Sharpening Services
I specialize in professional sharpening and restoration services for kitchen knives, salon shears, garden tools, and other edged tools.
Professional Knife, Shear, and Tool Sharpening in Kent, WA
At True Grit Sharpening Services, I treat every tool with expert and professional care and attention. Whether I’m restoring a worn kitchen knife, servicing professional salon shears, or bringing a damaged garden tool back into working shape, my focus is always on precision, edge quality, and preserving the life of the tool. Sharpening should improve performance without unnecessary material removal or shortcuts, and I take pride in providing careful, dependable workmanship for both professionals and everyday users
I regularly work with chefs, restaurant owners, hair salons, barbershops, landscapers, and tradespeople. I take the trust people put in me to care for the tools of their trade very seriously. If you’re a home cook, gardener, or hobbyist, I’ll treat your knives, shears, and tools with the same care, craftsmanship and attention to detail I show to the professionals.
I serve South King County and the Seattle Metro Area, regularly servicing accounts in Kent, Renton, Auburn, Covington, Maple Valley, Federal Way, and the Seattle Area.
Services
$2.00 per inch of blade, rounded down. This includes polishing and any needed minor repairs to the edge and tip. No extra charge for serrated blades.
High end shears present a uniques challenge as they often have convex bevels and hollow ground blades, and they need to have exquisitely sharp edges. I dissasemble each pair, use an ultrasonic cleaner to clean all parts, sharpen on the Hira To Flat Hone system, touch up the ride line on a 6000 grit whetstone, then lubricate and reassemble your shears leaving them as sharp as they came out of the box…sometimes sharper. $25 per pair.
I sharpen lawn mower blades, loppers, trimmers, powered hedge trimmers, axes, and hoes. For anything else, send me a photo and I’ll get you a quote. $10 - $20.
Regular scissors and shears are $12-16 depending on size. Pinking shears are $14-18 depending on the size.
Anything from the repair of badly damaged blades to restoration of vintage pieces. Please contact me for a quote.
While you see videos online on how to sharpen clipper blades yourself, to do so properly you need a slightly convex hone to achieve a hollow grind, otherwise your sharpened blades will rapidly become dull. I disassemble clipper blades, clean all components in an ultrasonic cleaner, sharpen the edge with a Nebraska CS-101 sharpening machine, demagnetize the blade, reassemble, then check and adjust the spring tension. Blades will be returned to you within factory spec and sharpness, and my clients often tell me the blades are sharper then when they came out of the box. A5 and similar blades $7. Adjustable or 5-in-1 blades $13. Wide blades $9. Large animal blades $13.