Sometimes you can best serve your country by serving those in the armed forces. Daniel Winkler got that opportunity in the years after Sept. 11, 2001. Of course, the world changed dramatically on that fateful day, and Winkler soon changed with it. Before 2001, Winkler was primarily a full-time knifemaker, having achieved master bladesmith accreditation from the American Bladesmith Society…
Who Made Who: The Early Years of Cattaraugus and Case Fixed Blade Production By Bradley Wood As my knife collecting friends can attest, I have been on a decades-long quest to decipher W.R. Case & Sons Cutlery Co.’s (“Case”) fixed blade production. I have insisted upon using original source documentation…
H. Clay Aalders is a lifelong edged tool user. He spent the past 20 years as a woodworker and fishing guide in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Idaho, and Tennessee. While guiding in Idaho, Clay worked part-time writing for a local newspaper, and upon moving to Tennessee began writing for the blog The…
With a huge number of outstanding knifemaking brands producing a wide variety of offerings, several large knife-focused retailers currently operating (and many more that have integrated the sale of knives into their business) and literally thousands of available examples of knives — pocket/folding, fixed and otherwise — it’s never been…
Mention the name Connor Toor to most knife aficionados and you’ll receive a knowing nod. That’s because the founder and CEO of Toor Knives Inc. has developed a product line of which any entrepreneur would be envious, and he did so in less than a decade. Add to that, in…
RoseCraft Blades is in a Traditional Mood, it seems. Hot on the heels of the Cane Creek Jack’s release earlier this month, the company is now readying the Obed Creek Bow Trapper for release, an original pattern that, like the Cane Creek, comes from the mind of Andy Armstrong. The…
Kephart. Bowie. Canadian. Mora. Nessmuk. Barlow. Mention these cutlery designs to a knife aficionado, and they’ll probably know what you’re talking about. And there’s a reason they’re called classics – these designs have proven themselves time and again. Luckily for us traditionalist-types, Bark River has come out with another classic…
This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The End of the American Dream. …
Artillerymen have a love for their guns which is perhaps stronger than the feeling of…
Artillerymen have a love for their guns which is perhaps stronger than the feeling of…
Artillerymen have a love for their guns which is perhaps stronger than the feeling of…
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