About Us

About Us

Community Cutlery is a home for enthusiasts — for people who love the ritual of food preparation and who find pleasure in using well-made tools: objects that are as pleasing on the eye as they are practical in the hand.

The convenience of mass-produced kitchenware has left most of us with cupboards full of pots and pans, drawers crammed with knives, and shelves stacked with plastic boxes. But how inexpensive is it, really, to keep replacing things again and again? What’s the environmental cost? And how much joy do we actually get from using a £7 supermarket chef’s knife?

If your answers are something along the lines of “not very,” “gulp,” and “not much,” we reckon you’re right.

We ask a lot from the tools we cook with — they help us feed ourselves, our families, and the people we care about. If you spend a lot of time at the stove or with a knife in your hand, why not use something that feels good, works better, and, if cared for properly, might just last a lifetime?

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Part of caring for a knife is keeping it sharp.
As well as selling knives, we sharpen them too — along with scissors, secateurs, hatchets, cleavers, loppers, shears, chisels, and all sorts of carpentry and woodworking tools.

A keen edge is essential. It makes your tools work better, faster, and more safely — and it simply makes using them more enjoyable.

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At Community Cutlery we work closely with a small group of craftspeople to bring together a limited collection of consciously chosen items for the kitchen.
We believe in the people we work with, in the products they make, and in the idea of buying once and taking good care.

We believe that functional things should also be beautiful — and that small, thoughtful choices can make a big difference, for us and for the environment.

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We welcome any dialogue about our products or sharpening services.
If you’ve got a question, please get in touch via our contact form — we’d love to hear from you.

Gaz & George