WOONSOCKET – Twenty minutes before game time, in a crowded ice rink locker room, the Mount St. Charles Academy hockey player discovered one of his skate blades badly dulled. He reached for his ...

In a nondescript house off Cleveland Avenue, just north of U.S. 34, with a pair of motorcycles in the driveway, Jeff Ladwig lives with his sharpening machine. The wheels that rotate the stones and ...

Sometimes it just feels good to take a step back in time.

The arrotino, or knife grinder, has been travelling around Italy for centuries, sharpening blades in the streets, and it was this tradition that sparked an idea for Wallpaper* Re-Made. Last year, we ...

It's hard to overstate how much 72-year-old Steve Schmauch loves knives and knife sharpening. He's been doing it professionally for 21 years, after all. Leaning over his custom-built sharpening ...

A Sheffield Township man operates a full service blade-sharpening business from home. “I started 19 years ago,” said Bruce Wohleber, who owns Bruce’s Tool Sharpening from his house at 4615 Broadway.