The practical guide to knife sharpening you never knew you needed. A kitchen shelf essential.Blunt kitchen knives, scissors and garden tools. Brittle wooden boards. We all have them. But maintaining your stuff is easy – when you know how.Professional knife sharpener Gareth Heaton draws from years of experience – both at his kitchenware business and running workshops – to provide stepbystep instructions on how to properly sharpen your tools. Using whetstones and other abrasives, you'll make them more effective and safer to use – and discover the hidden joy and satisfaction of maintenance.In Do Maintain, you will learn how to:Properly sharpen kitchen and serrated knivesSharpen scissors, secateurs, spades, axes, and moreTreat wooden chopping boards and season castiron cookwareIt's time to stop neglecting your everyday tools and utensils, break the cycle of buy and replace, and start looking after those wellworn, cherished homewares that get the job done.