About

Sea Rose knifeworks

Sea Rose Knifeworks is your local resource for handmade custom culinary knives, hand sharpening, and knife repair.

Prior to opening Sea Rose, Sasha Rosenfeld was a professional cook in Seattle for 15 years. He learned how to sharpen knives in the traditional Japanese style early in his career and had been sharpening his own knives, and those of his friends and colleagues, for more than a decade when he made the move from chef de cuisine to stay at home dad and part time prep cook.

Sasha took up blacksmithing classes and began forging his first kitchen knives in his backyard while his daughter was napping. A desire to spend his evenings feeding his family, rather than customers, and to work both for himself and with his hands, ultimately led Sasha to step away from professional kitchens for good in the fall of 2018 and open Sea Rose Knifeworks.

Sasha is a Seattle native. He lives in the CD with his wife, daughter, and dog. He has benefited from multiple opportunities to learn one-on-one from established regional knifemakers, as well as from access to Pratt Fine Arts Center, where one can learn to make Damascus steel and use a power hammer right in the heart of the city.