EdgeWare

About

Long established as a leading supplier of knife sharpening tools, US manufacturer Smith’s® introduces the new Edgeware™ branded kitchen tools collection.

The Edgeware™ brand offers consumers high performance manual and electric knife sharpeners and beginning in 2010, high-end food preparation kitchen tools. Synonymous with exceptional value, Edgeware™ was created for home cooks and cooking enthusiast looking for superior products with innovative designs offered at the best value possible.

“We believe the new Edgeware™ name fully communicates the core strength of the products we offer to consumers, and are excited to continue offering our customers exceptional products, value and services under this new brand,” says Dan Glidden, CEO of Smith’s.

Widely regarded as a world leader for sharpening tools since 1886, Smith’s® lays claim to the design and manufacture of the broadest line of knife and scissors sharpeners currently available. The company’s product offering includes both manual and electrical sharpeners ranging from the very simple to the sophisticated. It incorporates a wide variety of abrasive materials including diamond, carbide, ceramic, bonded synthetic abrasives and natural Arkansas stones.

Nestled in the hills outside Hot Springs, Arkansas, Smith’s®, was founded in 1886 by company president, Richard Smith’s, great-grandfather, James Archer Smith. Smith’s product offering now includes more than 200 products and they have built a reputation as the single-source supplier of knife sharpeners that meet all sharpening needs in all the major sharpening categories: Arkansas Stones, Carbides, Ceramics, Diamonds, and Precision Sharpening Systems.

From their humble beginnings as an Arkansas stone company to becoming one of the world’s largest producers of handheld and electric knife and tool sharpening products for the Housewares, Sporting Goods and Hardware markets, Smith’s® continues to bring innovation to the marketplace while providing quality products and unprecedented service.