Potchefstroom · Knives & sharpeners
Knife sharpening in Potchefstroom
Precision sharpening on the Wicked Edge system, handmade knives by Willie Jordaan, and PUMA classics from Solingen. Bring your blunt kitchen, pocket and hunting knives to 74 Smit Street and take them home shaving-sharp.
Sharpening
Sharp knives matter
A blunt knife slips; a sharp knife cuts where you point it. We sharpen on the Wicked Edge precision system, which holds the blade in a vice and works both sides at exactly the same angle, stroke after stroke, through the grits and onto strops. The result is a true, even edge that lasts, not the ragged edge a pull-through sharpener leaves behind.
Every knife we sharpen gets a basic service at no extra charge: a clean of the blade and handle, a light oil on the blade, and a check of the pivot, lock and screws. Repairs, chips and reprofiling are quoted once we have seen the knife.
| Knife | Price |
|---|---|
| Kitchen knives Chef's knives, paring knives, carving knives and the rest of the kitchen drawer. We do not sharpen bread knives. | R50 |
| Folding knives Pocket knives and folders of every kind, including lock-backs, liner locks and slip joints. | R100 |
| Hunting knives Fixed-blade hunting, skinning and bushcraft knives. | R120 |
| High-value and exclusive knives Custom, collectable and premium knives are quoted once we have seen the knife. | By quotation |
| Serrated blades Added to the price for the knife type above. | R50 extra |
| Repairs Chipped edges, broken tips, thinning and reprofiling are quoted once we have inspected the knife. | By quotation |
Wicked Edge dealer
Own the sharpener we use
We are an authorised Wicked Edge dealer. The Carbon, the GO and the pocket-sized Venture range are ordered for you from the factory in Santa Fe with duty, VAT and clearance included in the price, and a few genuine accessories, diamond stones, balsa strops and the Low Angle Adapter, are in stock in Potchefstroom.
Handmade in Potchefstroom
Knives by Willie Jordaan
Böhler N690, 1095 high carbon and 440C blades, heat treated to the steelmaker's specification, on handles of walnut, mopane, leadwood, wild olive and Kirinite. Each knife is sharpened on the Wicked Edge and comes with a handmade leather sheath and a signed certificate of authenticity.
Lion Knife "Harry Wolhuter"
1095 high carbon · Hunting
One of a kind, sold. Never repeated.Previous work
The maker's mark
Every blade carries the name
Each handmade knife is etched with the Willie Jordaan South Africa mark and the steel it is made from, and leaves with a certificate that records its serial number, materials and dimensions. A knife made by hand is a tool first, but it is also the one thing in the drawer that will outlast you.
Willie also makes knives to order. Tell him what the knife is for and what you like in the knives you have seen here, and he will quote for the piece. No knife is ever repeated: each one is shaped as the steel, the wood and his own eye lead him, so a knife made for you is its own knife, never a copy of one that has gone before.
Learn something
Steel, shapes and edges
Blade shapes explained
Drop point, clip point, tanto, wharncliffe, puukko and thirteen more: what each shape is for and why.
A guide to knife steels
Hardness, toughness, wear and corrosion resistance, and how twenty-five common steels compare.
The art of sharpening
Why a good edge is a matter of angle and repeatability, and what cheap sharpeners do to a blade.
Think twice, cut once.Chris Reeve
There was never a good knife made of bad steel.Benjamin Franklin
A knife is man's first tool and weapon. No matter how sophisticated we become, a knife takes us back to the cave.Bob Loveless
Find us
74 Smit Street, Potchefstroom
We share premises with Willie Jordaan Attorneys. Bring your knives in during office hours, or send a WhatsApp first if you want to be sure someone is in.
- 74 Smit Street, Potchefstroom, 2531
Same building as Willie Jordaan Attorneys - 082 457 3499 phone and WhatsApp
- itsasteel100@gmail.com
- Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 16:30
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