Our Sharpening options
Knife sharpening
Hamaguri
Our most popular sharpening option. Hamaguri is a traditional japanese technique where the sharpener creates a smooth and convex shape of the blade, making it cut much better than a normal micro edge.
Suddenly a carrot feels like melted butter instead.
Try it next time!
Bring more than five knives and you'll get a 20kr discount on each knife.
Regular sharpening
This option is the classic european option. We grind a new and sharp edge onto your knives and then polish it until it gets an agressive "bite" to it. Watch ypur fingers because these edges are nasty sharp!
Bring more than five knives and you'll get a 20kr discount on each knife!
Stone sharpening
For hand made knives. This sharpening option goes best with performance knives, thin blades with hard steel.
Especially if you have a carbon steel knife!
Single bevel
Traditional single bevel knives are a combination of art & performance. They are the sharpest blades available and to sharpen them is very challenging.
We love these knives as they let us express the artistic side of knife sharpening.
Outdoor Knives
Shinogi are the official sharpener for Roselli knives and therefor we ofc sharpen every kind of Outdoor knives as well.
Some brands we ususally work with are Eka, Fällkniven, Roselli and Morakniv.
We provide Scandi and convex grinds, but not hollow grinds yet.
Polishing and performance enhancement
more advanced services
Knife thinning
If you feel that your knife doesn't perform as it used to do when it was new even though its been sharpened? Then it could be time to thin your knife. This makes the entire blade slimmer and easier to cut through ingredients since the geometry of a razor cuts better than the geometry of an axe.
Damascus thinning
The damascus thinning is the option for you who wants a nicer finish on the blade. The polishing is much more thorouhgly done on this option, leaving the knife with a perfect finish after being thinned.
Handle polishing
Polish a worn out wooden or metal handle back to as it was when new.
Note that plastic handles cannot be pollished.
Kasumi polishing
A kasumi finish is a beautiful finish that can be given to a blade with zanmai construction. Meaning a card cores teel with a softer cladding. This finish is very time consuming but worth every second of it if you appreciate aestethics.
Prices are based on the amount of time every finish level requires.
Matte kasumi: 500sek
Polished kasumi: 800sek
Reparations and restorations
Full on restoration
You can fully restore a knife at Shinogi. We make the knife however you want and can even remake the knife to a completely new blade shape.
Price from 700sek, then chose the level of finish you want.
Chip/tip repair
Repair broken tips or remove larger damages in the edge for just an additional 50sek/knife.
The knife in this picture has gone through chip repair,thinning and a base kasumi finish before sharpening.
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About Shinogi
"shinogi" refers to the ridge of a single bevel knife between the hira and kireha. You have four major parts of the japanese blade. The "Hira", which is the flat part of the front side and the "kireha" which is the bevel which you sharpen. Then you have the Uraoshi, which is the flat surface on the back side of the knife, and the "urasuki" which is the concave grind of the back side.
To us, the passion for knife sharpening all started with the japanese single bevel yanagiba. To sharpen a normal knife is easy, but to sharpen a yanagiba takes practise, patience, skill and knowledge. That was the challenge that sparked the passion for advanced knife sharpening.
The journey of Shinogi started with the founder Erik Mases, who started practicing knife sharpening back in 2019 with belt grinder sharpening. there was immediately a passion for the craft and short after he started learning stone sharpening. Studying what techniques which the masters used, practiced, always challenging himself to become better. Inspired by some skilled knife restorations he witnessed, he bought a couple of rusty japanese knives and for each knife he finished, Erik found ways to do it better.
Four years later as a full time knife sharpener with thousands of hours put into the crafts, and hundreds of thousands knives sharpened, Erik felt the need of starting a company of his own.
A knife sharpening business that shared his values of seeking perfection instead of just "good enough". A way to find new ways to improve his crafts even further, for the best never becomes satisfied with their work.
With that, we can now proudly present Shinogi. The only knife sharpening company in Sweden where you can leave anything from your beater bushcraft knife to a rare honyaki blade and expect nothing but the best results when it comes back. We will let our portfolio speak for itself.
