Wicked Edge Knife Sharpener

Though the launch of our Kickstarter is still some months away, we’re taking the time to consider our strengths and what we want to present to the Kickstarter community as well as our current customer base.

After looking at other successful Kickstarters (our particular favorite are these super cool sticky notes), we decided that we wanted to show the community who we really are. That is, we’re a small company manned by real people at home in the US. We’d love to show people our workspace and how we do things around here. We do tons of assembly and quality control by hand and we take great pride and care into sending out only the best products. 

We also want to share our philosophy of durability and dependability. A lot of products these days are made with built-in obsolescence. They are made to eventually break down or become completely incompatible with newer developments, forcing customers to buy another product all over again. Its bad business for customers and for the environment and in the end only serves one purpose: greater profits. We want to get back to the idea of buying a product once and only once. A Wicked Edge sharpener will last forever if you want it to.

Finally, we want to share the pleasure of really interacting with the process of sharpening a knife. For hundreds of years, hand sharpening was a craft that required special training and a lot of practice. Skilled hand sharpeners today still do a fantastic job but not everyone has the time or inclination to learn this difficult art. As for automation, it can be fantastic but in knife sharpening it often leads damage and only modest results. Part of the appeal of the Wicked Edge is that you operate it, you can customize your knives in any way you want, and you can share in experience of crafting something rather than just running it through a machine. You can achieve the same results that a master hand sharpener can without spending years of training. Moreover, you can get those results without worrying about damaging your knives like an electric sharpener would.  You can tweak your knives for specific tasks (cutting tomatoes vs dressing game vs cutting open boxes) or you can put the same edge on all your knives for easy touch-ups. People are always telling us that when they use our sharpeners, they feel a level of connection and pride to sharpening that you just can’t get from an automated machine.

We’re really getting excited about launching both our Kickstarter and our Gen 3 line of products. We are now accepting pre-orders for the Gen 3 sharpener and vise upgrade, so just give us a call at 1-877-616-9911 if you are looking to purchase our most advanced sharpener yet. We’ll be posting ETAs for the Kickstarter soon. In the meantime, leave us a comment on what you’d like to see in our upcoming posts!