Kitchen knife, scissors and tool sharpening
A kitchen knife squashes a tomato, hairdressing scissors chew hair, a chainsaw chain throws dust instead of chips — it's time for knife and tool sharpening. In an order, list the tools and how many — sharpeners will send responses. Or find one who sharpens your kind of tool and compare prices.
Sharpening specialists
How much knife sharpening costs
What affects the price
What is being sharpened
A kitchen knife, hairdressing scissors, a chainsaw chain and a circular saw blade are sharpened on different equipment, so a sharpener's prices for them differ too.
The state of the blade
Refreshing a dull edge is simpler than removing deep chips, evening out an unevenly worn blade or restoring a broken tip.
Steel and blade shape
Hard Japanese steel, a single-bevel edge, a serrated bread knife or ceramic, which is sharpened with diamond abrasives, all take more time.
By hand or on a machine
Sharpening by hand on water stones takes longer than on a machine, and some sharpeners charge for honing and polishing the edge separately.
Quantity and handover
For a batch of knives from a restaurant kitchen or scissors from a salon, the price per item can be lower, while a visit or shipping by mail is sometimes charged separately.
Prices come from specialists' profiles on Nexperity and update automatically. You agree the final price with the specialist directly.
How to find a sharpening specialist
Two ways — pick the one that suits you
Pick a specialist yourself
- 1Open specialists' profiles and their work
- 2Send a request that describes the task
- 3Once accepted — contact the specialist directly
Post an order
- 1Describe the task, payment and the timing you want
- 2Receive responses from specialists
- 3Pick the best specialist and agree directly
- Free for clients
- Orders can be posted anonymously
- Your contacts open only after acceptance
- No commission on the deal
How to choose a sharpening specialist
- 1
The sharpening angle
Ask what angle the sharpener will use and whether they will keep the factory one: a blade with a more acute angle cuts more finely, but dulls and chips sooner.
- 2
How they will sharpen
Ask whether the sharpener works by hand on stones or on a water-cooled machine: on a dry grinding wheel the edge can overheat, and the steel loses its hardness.
- 3
How much metal comes off
Deep chips are removed by grinding the blade down, and the knife becomes narrower. Ask the sharpener to tell you beforehand how much metal will have to come off.
- 4
Setting up scissors
Hairdressing and manicure scissors are set up after sharpening. Ask whether the sharpener will adjust the screw and the action so the scissors cut along the whole length, to the very tips.
- 5
The edge in the portfolio
In the portfolio, look for close-ups of the edge: an even bevel along the whole length, a blade without scratches, a tip that has not been rounded off.
What to put in the order
What needs sharpening and how many items: kitchen knives, scissors, a chain or a tool
The type and, if you know it, the brand: a Japanese or ceramic knife, a serrated bread knife, hairdressing scissors
For a chain — the bar length and the number of links; for a saw blade — the diameter and whether it has carbide-tipped teeth
The state of the blade: just dull, chipped or with a broken tip; scissors wobble or chew
How you would like to hand it over: bring it to a workshop, have the sharpener come to you or send it by mail
How urgent it is, and whether you need regular sharpening — for a restaurant kitchen or a salon
Questions about Nexperity
How Nexperity works — separately for clients and for specialists
For clients
Nothing. Searching for specialists, sending requests, posting orders and receiving responses are free.
No. You agree the price and the payment method with the specialist and pay them directly. Nexperity does not take payments and is not a party to your deal.
A request goes to one specialist — from their profile. An order is posted for everyone: specialists send you responses, and you choose which one to accept.
How the specialist will do the task, a price — fixed, a range, hourly or “on request” — and, optionally, an estimated timeline.
30 days from publication: all that time it is visible in the feed and specialists can send responses. The exact end date and time are shown on the order in your account. From that moment the order is closed and a response can no longer be accepted. You can cancel it earlier, and if no specialist turned up, post a new one.
Yes: you can hide your name and photo in an order. The anonymity lasts until acceptance — the specialist whose response you accept sees your name and photo. The task description is public: anyone visiting the site can read it.
Only after acceptance — when you accept their response or they accept your request. And only the contacts you chose to show.
After acceptance you see the contacts the specialist chose to show, and they see the ones you chose. You can also message on Nexperity when the chat is on: on an order you decide that, on a direct request the specialist does.
Once the work is done, mark the order or the collaboration completed in your account — then you can say whether you recommend the specialist. A review can only be left for a collaboration that happened through Nexperity: one per specialist, which you can change or delete at any time.
For specialists
Nothing for now: this is the free period, and no subscription is needed yet. Nexperity takes no commission on deals — you settle with the client directly.
Sign up, fill in your specialist profile and add your services — each with a category, a description and a price. Once the profile is complete, it appears in search and on the category pages.
Two ways: clients send you requests from your profile, which you can accept or decline; and you see public orders in your categories in your account and can respond to them.
You describe how you will do the task and give a price and, optionally, a timeline. The client compares responses and accepts one.
Contacts set to “Public” are visible to everyone on your profile. A client sees contacts set to “After connection” once you accept their request or they accept your response. “Hidden” ones are not revealed in new connections: a contact already revealed to a client stays visible to them.
Each service has a fixed price, a range, an hourly rate or “on request”. Prices show on your profile and in search results, and you agree the final price with the client.
Through search and the category pages of your services. The order depends on your clients' reviews — how many of them recommend you — and in search also on how well your services match the query.
A photo, a description, your region and way of working — online or in person — your contacts and a portfolio: photos of your work, each with a short caption if you like.
A client leaves a review after completed work, and only for a collaboration through Nexperity: they say whether they recommend you and may add a few words. Each client counts once, however many times you work together.
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