Sharpener Training Program 101 Build the skills, confidence, and understanding to sharpen with purpose. Whether you're sharpening for your home, your trade, or looking to start a sharpening business, this comprehensive training program provides a clear, step-by-step path to producing consistently razor-sharp edges—safely, efficiently, and confidently. Unlike many courses that overwhelm students with unnecessary complexity, our approach focuses on mastering the fundamentals. When you understand why sharpening works, the techniques become easier to learn, more consistent, and far more repeatable. Built from years of professional sharpening, product development, and teaching thousands of students, this course combines proven techniques with real-world experience to help you sharpen almost any knife with confidence. What You'll Learn ✔ Sharpening fundamentals and essential safety practices ✔ Edge geometry, burr formation, pressure, and abrasive progression ✔ Tool-specific techniques for common knives and cutting tools ✔ Professional methods to improve consistency, efficiency, and edge quality ✔ Business fundamentals for those interested in offering sharpening professionally Whether your goal is maintaining your own knives or building a successful sharpening business, this program provides the foundation to help you produce professional-quality results. Our Teaching Philosophy At Curry Custom Cutlery, we believe sharpening doesn't have to be complicated. Too often it's presented as something overly technical or mysterious, leaving people frustrated before they ever experience success. Our goal isn't to make sharpening look difficult. Our goal is to make it understandable. By mastering the fundamentals—edge geometry, burr formation, pressure, angle control, and abrasive progression—you'll develop the confidence to sharpen almost any knife with consistent results. We don't believe our method is the only way to sharpen. There are many excellent sharpeners using different techniques who produce outstanding edges. We simply teach the methods that have consistently worked for us through years of sharpening, testing, product development, and helping thousands of students succeed. Our mission is simple: Teach the principles. Build confidence. Help you sharpen with purpose.