Blade & Butler's knife sharpening heritage can be traced back to 1905 and generations of specialist

knowledge of knives, blades and sharpening.

Long before modern postal sharpening services existed, maintaining and restoring cutting edges

depended upon an understanding of steel, blade geometry and skilled workmanship.

Over 100 years ago our founder, Cristoforo, arrived in the UK from pre-World War I northern Italy

(then known as Austro Hungary).

Using his skills as a knife sharpener he founded a knife sharpening dynasty that has grown as it

passed from father to son, generation after generation.

Over the decades the company evolved and expanded into new areas. It changed name and

modernised as society and industry progressed.

After more than a century of commercial business operations our knife sharpening services now

extend across the UK to all private individuals and domestic households.

We are proud to provide this industry first. ( and flattered by the recent imitators also! )

Pioneering is in our DNA.

We think Cristoforo would be proud and also quite amazed at how things have progressed.

Blade & Butler. Always at the cutting edge. (see what we did there?)

With over 100 years of knife sharpening heritage behind us you can be assured that your knives are

in the very best of hands.