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Sean
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Mobile Sharpening Service for East Kent.
Kitchen knives, garden tools, lawnmower blades, scissors, axes, and specialist tools.
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Learn the art of Spoon Carving, for all skill levels.

Looking for a gift for a loved one or to treat yourself, or maybe even both.

Come and join Thomas Steven and I, at Windmill Community Gardens Margate on Friday 23rd of January.

BOOK HERE
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December 11, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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These Global knives show the before and after of cutting edges.
They both looked sharp when I took them in, but look closely at the before, you can see a burr, micro chips and an uneven edge of the blade, where the after is perfectly apexed, and an even cutting edge throughout. #Sharpening #EastKent
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Christmas can be such a busy time, why not make your food preparation quicker and easier, and get your knives sharpened.

#Christmas
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November 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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I ground out a knife blade, and today finished it off.
Not sure about it's temper, just wanted to see if it would work.

#STiRWoodcraft #SpoonHippy #SpoonPunk #CarvedWithLoveAndCare #SeansSharpening #Sharpening #EastKent #Thanet #Canterbury #Dover #Deal #Ashford #HerneBay #KnifeMaking
November 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Where am I this weekend?

Saturday- Deal Market

Sunday - Herne Bay Market

#SeansSharpening #Sharpening #EastKent #ProfessionalKitchen #YesChef #Allotmemt #CommunityGarden #Gardening #Thanet #Canterbury #Dover #Deal #Ashford #HerneBay
November 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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A customer brought me these wonderful Spear & Jackson shears, tickled up and snippy as you like.

#SeansSharpening #Sharpening #EastKent #ProfessionalKitchen #YesChef #Allotmemt #CommunityGarden #Gardening #Thanet #Canterbury #Dover #Deal #Ashford #HerneBay
November 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Where am I this weekend?

Deal Saturday Market from 9 till 2pm.

Macknade in Faversham on Sunday from 10 till 2pm.

#SeansSharpening #Sharpening #EastKent #ProfessionalKitchen #YesChef #Allotmemt #CommunityGarden #Gardening #Thanet #Canterbury #Dover #Deal #Faversham #Ashford #HerneBay
October 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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My personal kitchen knives, are looking nice, and definitely cutting well.

#SeansSharpening #Sharpening #EastKent #ProfessionalKitchen #YesChef #Allotmemt #CommunityGarden #Gardening #Thanet #Canterbury #Dover #Deal #Ashford #HerneBay
October 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Conversations with customers are important, on items like these, make the cutting edge more ergonomic or leave charm and historical value.
We went for the latter, wicked sharp.

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October 17, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Hey folks, I'm going to be at Wye near Ashford on Wednesday, if you want kitchen knives, garden tool, or household scissors sharpened drop by and see me, I can do chisels and other tools but they will have to be towards the end of my session.

#SeansSharpening #Sharpening #Ashford #Wye
October 14, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Sunday the 12th I'll be at Herne Bay Market

#SeansSharpening #Sharpening #EastKent #ProfessionalKitchen #YesChef #Allotmemt #CommunityGarden #Gardening #Thanet #Canterbury #Dover #Deal #Ashford #HerneBay
October 6, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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A customer brought in these wonderful knives, they are Pallarès Solsona Inox knives, they have a lovely convex taper along not only the length of the blade, but also from the spine to the cutting edge.
#SeansSharpening #Sharpening #ProfessionalKitchen #YesChef
October 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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When I received these shears they were seized up, and after they made the beautiful cutting noise of properly working shears.

#SeansSharpening #Sharpening #EastKent #ProfessionalKitchen #YesChef #Allotmemt #CommunityGarden #Gardening #Thanet #Canterbury #Dover #Deal #Ashford #HerneBay
September 24, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Tickled one of these gorgeous Niwaki Hori Hori tools yesterday, sharpened the serrated teeth, reset the cutting edge and tip, and thinned out the width of the handle.

#SeansSharpening #Sharpening #EastKent #Allotmemt #CommunityGarden #Gardening #Thanet #Canterbury #Dover #Deal #Ashford #HerneBay
September 22, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Two gorgeous pair of shears.
The one on the left is how I took them in.
The one on the right is how they went back.

#SeansSharpening #Sharpening #EastKent #ProfessionalKitchen #YesChef #Allotmemt #CommunityGarden #Gardening #Thanet #Canterbury #Dover #Deal #Ashford #HerneBay
September 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Really nice post about these scissors I sharpened earlier today.

#Scissors
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September 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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New tools that I modded to be carving axes.
Tidied up the grind from the forging, re-ground the cutting edge to 30°, and lightly faceted the handles.
Now, it's time to test edge retention.

#STiRWoodcraft #SpoonHippy #SpoonPunk #SpoonDisruptor #CarvedWithLoveAndCare #SeansSharpening #Sharpening
September 16, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Today I shall mostly be restoring choppers.

#SeansSharpening #Sharpening #EastKent #ProfessionalKitchen #YesChef #Allotmemt #CommunityGarden #Gardening #Thanet #Canterbury #Dover #Deal #Ashford #HerneBay
September 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Beautiful Drop Forged Shears that I worked on today.

#SeansSharpening #Sharpening #EastKent #ProfessionalKitchen #YesChef #Allotmemt #CommunityGarden #Gardening #Thanet #Canterbury #Dover #Deal #Ashford #HerneBay
September 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Lovely Elwell billhook, this took a lot to clean, serious amount of rust, a blown out spine (probably from hammering), chips removed and tidied up the convex edge.

#SeansSharpening #Sharpening #EastKent #Allotmemt #CommunityGarden #Gardening #Thanet #Canterbury #Dover #Deal #Ashford #HerneBay
September 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Gorgeous pair of hand shears, from 1920s, freshly sharpened even got the original tin closure tap, to help protect the edges when in storage.

#SeansSharpening #Sharpening #EastKent #ProfessionalKitchen #Chef #Allotmemt #CommunityGarden #Gardening #Thanet #Canterbury #Dover #Deal #Ashford #HerneBay
September 6, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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32cm cooking spoons from poplar.

I have started selling my spoons ( @stir-woocraft.bsky.social ) from my sharpening van, and as people purchase more cooking spoons than eating spoons, I have decided that to prioritise making cooking spoons, teaspoons and utensils for the rest of the year.
September 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Cleaned up this beautiful cleaver, tidied up the spine, removed the rust from the body, and sharpened with a convex grind.

#SeansSharpening #Sharpening #EastKent #ProfessionalKitchen #YesChef #Allotmemt #CommunityGarden #Gardening #Thanet #Canterbury #Dover #Deal #Ashford #HerneBay
August 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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It's always useful to have a Multi-Tool in this game, I purchased this for my youngest son, who is honing his sharpening skills.

#SeansSharpening #Sharpening #EastKent #ProfessionalKitchen #YesChef #Allotmemt #CommunityGarden #Gardening #Thanet #Canterbury #Dover #Deal #Ashford #HerneBay
August 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Lovely morning at Minster Abbey Ramsgate , sharpening tools for the nuns.
And what a delightful building and grounds, some parts have been their over 1350 years 😲.

#SeansSharpening #Sharpening #EastKent #Allotmemt #CommunityGarden #Gardening #Thanet #Canterbury #Dover #Deal #Ashford #HerneBay
August 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM