Hardcover
Sharpen knives, tools, boards: Maintain your stuff and love it.

Do Maintain

How to sharpen knives, scissors and garden tools. 

$35.16

  • Hardcover

    144 pages

  • Release Date

    2 October 2025

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Summary

Josh Donald, author of Sharp and founder of Bernal Cutlery, presents:

The practical guide to knife sharpening you never knew you needed.

Blunt kitchen knives, scissors, and garden tools. Dry wooden boards. We all have them. But maintaining your stuff is easy when you know how.

Professional knife sharpener Gareth Heaton draws on years of experience both at his kitchenware business and running workshops to provide step-by-step instructions on how to correctly sh…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781914168642
ISBN-10:191416864X
Author:Gareth Heaton
Publisher:The Do Book Co
Imprint:The Do Book Co
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:144
Release Date:2 October 2025
Weight:194g
Series:Do Books
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Packed with clear instructions, photos and illustrations, Gaz shows us that maintaining our tools doesn’t have to be a chore and really couldn’t be easier… Now you can be the sharpest knife in the drawer.’ Bother magazine. ‘Gareth transforms the intimidating art of knife sharpening into a friendly chat cutting through any confusion like a well-honed blade.’ Martyn Odell, Lagomchef

About The Author

Gareth Heaton

Gareth Heaton lives and works in Yorkshire, England where he runs Community Cutlery, a kitchenware business specializing in kitchen knives. Sharpening professionally since 2019, Gareth has restored thousands of knives, for both domestic and professional users. After discovering there was a real appetite for learning, he has gone on to teach knife sharpening skills to hundreds of people in the shop, at private events, and festivals, as well as online. Do Maintain is his first book.

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