Knife repair
We repair broken tips and chipped knife blades

Broken Tips

Tiny chips are an inevitable result of normal kitchen knife use, even if you’re careful.A super sharp knife has such an incredibly thin cutting edge, it is actually very delicate, even if you’re using high quality steel. We can create a new tip for your blade. When we recreate the point of the knife we will have to grind down metal from the existing blade to form a new tip. The new point will begin where the old tip broke off. That means your knife will always be slightly shorter than before the tip was broken off.

Severely broken knives require a lot of grinding and sometimes the knife will lose its length in the process Generally, a new tip can be created in two ways:

For minor tip repairs we create a new tip by changing the curvature of the top edge of your blade. The end of the top edge will bend down to create a new point and more of the original edge of the blade remains.

For severely broken tips, we will keep the upper edge of the blade intact and recreate the curvature and ‘belly’ of the blade on the remaining length of metal. This takes away more steel resulting in a shorter blade.

Chipped Knifes

Chips in a blade vary vastly and can, for example, be caused by cutting into something hard, or when the blade is mistreated. Chip repair is often necessary for knives with higher carbon steel or ceramic knives. A knife may be manufactured from varying qualities of steel. If the blade chips, the only way to repair the blade is to reduce the height of the blade, and create a new edge. This does cause some shrinkage to the blade.