Bestech is poised to release a new collaboration that is, itself, a collaboration model. Meet the Excentric, which results from the partnership of Grzegorz Grabarski, AKA Kombou Designs, and Toni N. Tietzel of TNT Knives.
Every partnership works on its own rules. Sometimes, the designers will send drawings back and forth, iterating and reiterating on something until it feels right. We’ve also seen collaborations where the finished knife of one maker is riffed on by another, in a kind of tribute. But according to Grabarski, his partnership with Tietzel, which began when the two met for the first time at the IWA Expo in Germany, took a much more…literal form. The two literally divided the knife in half.
Tietzel was responsible for the blade, and he absolutely put his personal stamp on it. Tietzel is known for being a bit of a grind connoisseur, and he conjured up a wild one for the Excentric.
I don’t know either designer, and the design isn’t my cup of tea.
Read the whole thing at KnifeNews.com
Two Custom World Heavyweights Collaborate on Wild Bestech Excentric
Read the full article here
