Do Maintain: How to Sharpen Knives, Scissors and Garden Tools

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The practical guide to knife sharpening you never knew you needed.Blunt kitchen knives, scissors and garden tools. Dry wooden boards. We all have them. But maintaining your stuff i s easy – when you know how.Professional knife sharpener Gareth Heaton draws on years of experience – both at his kitchenware business and running workshops – to provide step-by-step instructions on how to correctly sharpen your tools. Using whetstones and other abrasives, you'll make them more effective and safer to use – and discover the hidden joy and satisfaction of maintenance.In Do Maintain, you will learn how to: Properly sharpen all types of kitchen knives Sharpen scissors, secateurs, spades and more Use a whetstone and ditch ineffective home sharpeners Treat wooden chopping boards and season cast-iron pans It's time to start looking after your everyday tools and utensils, break the cycle of buy and replace, and learn the lost skill of knife sharpening. DetailsPaperback / 144 pagesPublished 24 October 2025 Show more