bio.






Hi! I'm Chris, and my wifey is Emma. Professionally, I've been sharpening knives and scissors since 2007. However, knife sharpening started back in the late 1900's when I was a young chap. My very first sharpening apparatus was my Dad's pull through set up that, quite honestly, did nothing to the edge. I would push a knife back and forth in this little "sharpener" a thousand times with zero results. But I didn't know the difference.





"Sharpening apparatus"



In my early teen years I was introduced to the Lansky Guided Rod Sharpening System. From that point on I refined edges so they'd pop hairs off an arm. I was the man! All my buddies wanted their arm to be smooth too.



"Lansky guided rod system"



Fast forward to the year 2007 (I'm 27 at this point), I was at my local library that I frequented a few times a week. I'd check out CD's for free and rip them onto my computer....I know....it was bad. However, I became friends with the branch manager, Michael, and he mentioned that an "Entrepreneur" was going to speak on starting a business. So I attended. From that point on my life changed. After being inspired by the speaker, I went back into the library and checked out a few books like "101 Ways to Start a Business" (where i stumbled upon a sharpening service), but most importantly, I read Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich". I caught the entrepreneur bug. I realized that sharpening professionally really was a thing. I read and read and read every kind of book that pertained to business, sales, marketing, sharpening, etc.


August 7th, 2007 I officially incorporated

The Sharpening Shop.


My very first adventure into the professional world of sharpening were hair shears for stylists. I poked around that industry, called many salons, did the market research, and learned that metro Atlanta has thousands of salons, with tens of thousands of stylists, and billions of scissors that needed to be sharpened. But what caught my attention was only four to six reputable scissor sharpeners were servicing all those salons.

JACK POT$$


I bought the scissor sharpening machine, trained under a manufacture's sharpener, learned the method to the madness, and set out on foot to become one of Georgia's elite sharpeners. I mastered the craft, put my 10,000 hours in, and built a scissor sharpening empire. Eighteen years later, the wifey and I are still going strong.


Along that way, sometime in 2009, I added knife sharpening to my arsenal of services, then garden tool sharpening followed, and so did clipper blades for groomers. But i was stretching myself thin, working very long hours and making WAY too much money, so in 2016 I dropped clipper blades off the menu.


.....And here we are. In 2026 I'm still banging on blades, putting the fun back in functional, and loving every moment of my craft, industry, and most importantly my customers.


Thanks for reading!