No, not the trailer of a new Hollywood blockbuster, just some ruminations on what you had to do to get your knives sharp before the invention of electric knife sharpeners like the Nirey range we stock.
A quick check on the internet confirms that it’s pretty unlikely anyone will be writing a multi-volume history of the electric knife sharpener anytime soon. There is an absolute dearth of information on the topic, but what is out there is very interesting.
The Japanese have a word that is a little hard to translate directly into English – chindogu. Chindogu is the ‘art of inventing ingenious everyday gadgets… no utility whatsoever’.
Unless you are a knife expert or military historian, you may not have come across the Kukri knife.
Chris and Judy Petersen own and run the King of Knives outlet in Robina on the Gold Coast.
At Total Knife Care we reckon we’ve got the best kitchen knife of the present (the I.O.Shen range, of course), but what sort of kitchen knives can we expect to see in the future?
We’re pleased to see that Lifehacker Australia is advising their readers to look after their favourite kitchen tools
Mandy & Shane Kirley run Mansfield Hunting & Fishing in Mansfield, a small town nestled in the foothills of Mt Buller in northeast Victoria and just five minutes drive away from one of Australia’s largest inland lakes – Lake Eildon.
From time to time we hear various comments, from professionals and enthusiastic hobbyists alike, about knife sharpeners and the best way to sharpen knives.
The world has changed a little since 1878, when London & American was founded in Ballarat.