Call me thrifty or just call me a skinflint, I can't bear to throw a tool away if I think I can repair it. That may seem obvious with big-ticket machinery, but it may not be worth the hassle on ...

It's hard to overstate how much 72-year-old Steve Schmauch loves knives and knife sharpening. He's been doing it professionally for 21 years, after all. Leaning over his custom-built sharpening ...

In a nondescript house off Cleveland Avenue, just north of U.S. 34, with a pair of motorcycles in the driveway, Jeff Ladwig lives with his sharpening machine. The wheels that rotate the stones and ...

A Sheffield Township man operates a full service blade-sharpening business from home. “I started 19 years ago,” said Bruce Wohleber, who owns Bruce’s Tool Sharpening from his house at 4615 Broadway.