Garden Tool Sharpening with Community Cutlery

Following a hugely popular sharpening masterclasses in 2024, Gaz, founder of Community Cutlery, is coming back to The Walled Garden!

About the workshop:

Join Gaz from Community Cutlery as they teach you how to get your garden tools back into tip top condition in time for spring, and keep them that way!

Bring along your own secateurs, loppers, shears, spades, hoes and rotary type lawnmower blades for full instruction on how to keep your tools performing their best.

What you will take away:

Your own sharpened tools and the skills to keep them that way!

What to bring with you:

Your own tools for sharpening.

Enthusiasm for sharp tools.

The desire to learn a new skill.

£90 PER PERSON

Your ticket includes lunch and a snack from Hawarden Estate Farm Shop, plus unlimited tea and coffee.

About the workshop, as told by Gaz:

Are you harbouring a desire to be able to sharpen your own tools? Does it feel within your reach but still somehow completely unfathomable?

As a professional knife sharpening service we speak with our customers about this topic a lot, so much so we've lost count of how many times we've heard...

"I'd really like to be able to sharpen my own knives/tools but I'm worried about ruining them."

"I've had a whetstone for years but I've never got around to learning how to use it."

"I'm not really sure about the angles."

...and these are absolutely valid reasons for being wary of getting started, properly sharpening tools using traditional methods can be tricky, but by breaking down the process and giving you a little guidance along the way, we're confident you'll leave the workshop with the skills you need become a competent and confident home sharpener.

We’ll start the workshop with a lesson in the all important sharpening theory, then we’ll give a comprehensive demonstration of the techniques you’ll need to know before moving on to a big chunk of time for you to sharpen your own tools under our guidance.