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

By Gareth Heaton

"Buy this book and get some stones." - Josh Donald, author of Sharp & founder of Bernal Cutlery

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 is 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 knivesSharpen scissors, secateurs, spades and moreUse a whetstone and ditch ineffective home sharpenersTreat wooden chopping boards and season cast-iron pansIt'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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 191416864X
• ISBN13: 9781914168642
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Do Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.6" x 7.0"