Tool sharpening — chisels, garden shears & more
The same slow, water-cooled wheel that sharpens our customers' knives puts working edges back on workshop and garden tools. A chisel that pares instead of tears, shears that cut instead of chew — posted to us from anywhere in Australia, or collected around Lake Macquarie.
What we sharpen
🪵 Wood chisels & plane blades
Flat-backed and honed to a consistent bevel on the jig — the difference between paring end grain cleanly and bruising it. Mushroomed or nicked edges reshaped where the steel allows.
🌿 Garden shears, secateurs & loppers
A clean bypass edge cuts stems instead of crushing them — better for your hands and for the plant. We sharpen the bevel, ease the burr, and check the pivot action.
🪓 Axes, hatchets & machetes
Splitting and felling edges profiled for the job — keen enough to bite, robust enough not to chip on the next knot.
✂️ Kitchen scissors & cleavers
Kitchen scissors get both blades trued and set; heavy meat cleavers get a durable working edge that stands up to the block.
Not sure your tool fits one of these? Ask first — if we can't do it properly, we'll say so rather than do a half-job.
Why the water-cooled wheel matters for tools
Chisels and garden tools usually get sharpened on fast dry grinders — which is exactly how their edges get ruined. A dry wheel builds heat in seconds; the steel discolours, loses its temper, and the edge folds the first time it hits hardwood or a woody stem. Our wheel turns slowly through a water bath, so the steel stays cool and keeps the hardness the maker put into it, and the consistent-angle jig grinds one flat, even bevel instead of a hand-held guess.
Every edge is finished by hand on a leather honing wheel and covered by the same no-fix-no-fee guarantee as our knives: if it isn't right, we redo it free — still not right, that edge is refunded.
What it costs
Chisels, garden shears, secateurs, loppers, axes, machetes and cleavers are $20 per edge — book them as heavy on the order form. Kitchen scissors from $15. Postage is one flat satchel fee both ways, or a flat pickup fee locally. Full pricing →
How to get tools to us
- Mail-in, Australia wide — we post you a prepaid, pre-addressed satchel; wrap each edge, seal, and drop it at any AusPost. Every leg is tracked. How mail-in works → (Long-handled tools like loppers and axes: heads and blades that detach travel well — check with us about anything that won't fit a satchel.)
- Local pickup — around Lake Macquarie (postcodes 2280, 2281, 2282, 2283, 2284, 2285) we collect and return, 5-item minimum.
While they're in the satchel…
Most people send their kitchen knives in the same order — the satchel's already paid for, and knives are $15 each (fishing, hunting and pocket knives too, with premium care for Japanese single-bevel and specialty steels). There's also knife-care gear that ships free with any order, and gift cards if you know someone whose shed is full of blunt tools.
Put a working edge back on them
Book tools as heavy on the order form — the quote updates live before you pay.
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