| Knife Sharpening & Repair
Free Sharpening for the Life of your Warther Knife!
Sharpening Hours: Monday-Friday between
9:00AM and 4:00PM.
After 4:00PM, or on weekend, you may leave you knives and
pick them up later, or pay to ship the knives back to you.
($10.00 for UPS delivery)
Mail to:
E. Warther & Son, Inc.
Attn: Sharpening and/or Repairs
327 Karl Avenue
Dover, OH 44622
Cost of Sharpening
E. Warther & Son, Inc. offers FREE sharpening for the life of your Warther Knife!
For any other brand of knife the charge is $3.00 per knife.
Scissors can be sharpened for $4.00 per pair.
We do not sharpen "Pinking Shears."
Packaging your Warther Knives
We recommend packaging your knives by wrapping them in newspaper or a old kitchen towel, before placing in a box or certified USPS or UPS bag.
Self Sharpening
You may use:
* a Honing Stone
* a Diamond Knife Sharpener
* a Ceramic Crock Stick Sharpener
* any other Hand Sharpener
Do NOT use any Electric Sharpener where one pulls the knife through!
* this changes the type of beveled edge and removes too much steel on your knife
Your local hardware store, meat market, or grocery store may provide a sharpening
Sharpening a Serrated Knife
We cannot resharpen any serrated knives. If you feel your serrated knife is completely worn out, we can grind the serration off and the knife will become a smooth
edge knife.
How Often Should Warther Knives be Sharpened?
We recommend sharpeing your Warther Knives once a year.
Many people wait 2 to 3 years before sharpening their knives.
Factors to Consider:
* the Cutting Board
* if you cut on a wood cutting board, sharpen your knives once a year
* if you cut on plastic, sharpen your knives once every two to four weeks
* if you cut on Corian, ceramic or glass, sharpen your knives
several times a week
Hardwood cutting boards are recommended to extend the life and sharpness
of your knife.
Corian, ceramic, and glass cutting boards are very hard and will dull your knives quickly.
Some plastic cutting bards that are soft enough to cut lines on are good. However, a study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison indicates that plastic is more susceptible to bacteria growth than wood.
Repair (To send a knife back for repair, see mailing instructions above)
Broken Knife
Warther Knifes have a five-year warranty against breakage. Sometimes there is a flaw in the steel that we cannot detect until it breaks. Return both pieces of the knife to us and if we determine it was from a flaw, we will replace it. We can determine the age of the knife by looking at it, so we do not require a receipt.
Nick in the Knife Blade
We can repair a nick in the knife blade, if the nick is not too large. We can grind out the nick during sharpening.
Replacing the Knife Handle
We can replace the handle, especially if it was caught in the garbage disposal or continually washed in the dishwasher. A new handle varies in price from $8.00 for a Paring knife to $10.00 for the French knives.
Refinishing the Knife Handle
We have been using the same knife material since 1952, and it is extremely durable.
However, the knife handle may begin to deteriorate if it has been misused by:
* being caught in the garabage disposal
* being washed in the dishwasher
The chlorine in dishwaser detergent dissolves the resin in the handles,
returning the handle to natural wood. This will cause the handle to swell
and deteriorate.
Handles can only be resanded and rebuffed once.
The cost is $4.00 per knife.
Repairing a Broken Tip
If only the tip of the knife is broken, we can grind a new but shorter tip into the blade. We try to maximize the cutting edge and will grind the backside of the blade down to create a new tip.
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