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+1 925-216-4285
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| Pleasanton, CA 94566 | |
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0.4 miPleasanton
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Specialties
Absolutely Sharp specializes in sharpening knives, scissors, salon shears, straight razors, garden tools, and most woodworking tools/drill bits. Convenience is maximized by sharpening your equipment while you shop the Farmers’ Markets on the weekend mornings or at the New Leaf Community Market on Monday afternoon. We also sharpen on site for commercial accounts from Tuesday-Friday.
History
Established in 2007.
Absolutely Sharp® is a local Mom and Pop (literally) business that was started after seeing there was a need in the Tri Valley to get items precision sharpened quickly without any down time for the customer. Owner Mark Giudici and his wife Eileen have lived and raised their kids in Pleasanton since 1993. Mark’s original career was in technology research but there was a longing to get out of the corporate world. As he researched potential businesses, a close friend suggested knife sharpening. Immediately Mark knew he had found the perfect business. Throughout his youth Mark worked in his grandfather’s butcher shop and had learned how to sharpen knives and tools. It was second nature to start a sharpening business. After a few months of honing his sharpening skills on knives, scissors, shears, woodworking and garden tools, then acquiring precision commercial sharpening equipment and getting approved for inclusion into the Pacific Coast Farmers’ Market Association (Absolutely Sharp
Meet the Business Owner
Mark G.
Business Owner
After 26 years in technology market research, I decided to change things up a bit. I have been sharpening since I was a kid and figured there was a need in the Tri Valley for a local sharpener that treated customer’s knives and scissors as if they were my own. I read books, took classes, researched what was needed to sharpen professionally and set up a business and began sharpening at the Livermore Farmers’ Market in November 2007, expanded to the Pleasanton Farmers’ Market in January of 2008 and, most recently, began sharpening at the New Leaf Community Market last May.
