If you need to sharpen your knife in a pinch, you can try using sandpaper. There are two easy and effective ways to sharpen any blade.

Most knife enthusiasts have a whetstone or other type of knife sharpener, but a serrated knife requires a specialized ...

Using your scissors, cut through the folded sandpaper multiple times, ensuring the entire length of the blade touches the rough surface of the sandpaper with each cut. Clean scissors.

While you might be better off sharpening your really nice knives with a water stone, you can easily sharpen your less-expensive knives with a few different grits of sandpaper.

Buying and maintaining a good set of tools can be expensive for the home gamer, so [shopbuilt] put together an Instructable on how to sharpen your woodworking tools on a budget.

Those pull-through knife sharpeners can damage a blade. Here's what you need to know about how to use a knife sharpener.

Knives will get duller as you use them, it's inevitable. However, you can actually efficiently sharpen them at home, so don't be intimidated!