If you would like to customize your knife, we offer custom engravings. Custom engraving will add a personal touch to your knife and it's also a great way to make your present one-of-a-kind.

Send us a message with the following information:
🔪Text/symbol/logo/image of the engraving
🔪Location of the engraving. The easiest is to take a screenshot of the knife from the product page and mark the location with a box (so the size of the engraving can also be determined)
🔪[optional - if adding text] Font of the engraving.

It takes 2 extra business days to engrave a knife. Please note that engraved knives are not eligible for returns since they are customized items.

Think of Japanese knives as buying a nice supercar. You won't drive your new, fancy Aston Martin off-road. Japanese knife is a high performance tool, treat it with respect (if not, the blade can chip or get damaged).

🔪Gentle use (no frozen foods, bones, coconuts, crusty bread and hard cheese)
🔪Handwash in warm water and towel dry
🔪Use knife friendly synthetic or wooden cutting boards
🔪Use a sharpening stone (not a honing steel!) to sharpen your knife
🔪Do not cut frozen foods and meat bones
🔪Do not put the knife in a dishwasher
🔪Proper storage (on a magnetic knife holder, in a knife roll, in a drawer with a protective Saya on the blade)
🔪 Use the spine of the knife to scrape the vegetables off the cutting board

We wrap our knives in Japanese newspaper and add Use&care instructions into the box.
Please contact us if you're buying a gift, we have a few amazing hand printed Japanese wrapping papers available!

We sell to retailers - ask us for commercial conditions through e-mail ina@sharpedgeshop.com or messenger.

Payment of import duties and fees depends on your shipping address. We ship from Slovenia (EU member state).

⏩ EU28 countries: For orders within the EU countries there will be no import charges.
⏩ United States: For orders below $800 (approx. €715) there are no import charges (as per Trade Enforcement Act). Orders over $800 will face import duties and taxes, from our experience these amount to around 6-10% of the order value.
⏩ Rest of the World: For other countries we recommend contacting your local customs office to get the best estimate of custom duties and fees.

Contact us for more info: ina@sharpedgeshop.com or messenger.

Receiving a good kitchen knife as a gift is great: your loved ones will use it every day, it will substantially ease their kitchen tasks and ensure better taste of food they prepare. Japanese kitchen knife is a gift that will last a lifetime.

According to superstition, knives presented as gifts will sever the friendship between the presenter and recipient, unless you do as follows ⏩ to break the spell all one needs to do is simply attach a coin so the recipient can immediately "immediately "pay you back" for the knife. 😁 This way a knife is not a gift, bad juju spell is broken and everyone is happy - especially your loved one who will now chop and slice as a pro chef.

HRC or Rockwell scale provides a convenient way to compare the hardness of two materials, such as types of steel. It measures hardness based on the depth of penetration of a diamond cone pressed into the material at a constant pressure. The higher the number, the harder the material. German knives usually have a range of hardness from 54-58 HRC, Japanese knives from 59-67 HRC, while powder steel knives have a range from 64 - 68 HRC.

We ship internationally using DHL Express to deliver to more than 200 countries around our beautiful planet. Express shipping via DHL Express usually delivers within 2-5 business days (depending on your location). An exception are deliveries to Russia (due to governmental restrictions). DHL can only deliver to business addresses, we can ship to other addresses via EMS where the costs are €40.00 EUR (or more, depending on the weight). We do not offer free shipping to Russia.