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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…
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FirearmBlog: A WWI Bayonet For British Revolvers
The terrible trench warfare of WW1 was so brutal that it gave rise to plenty of close-quarter battle oddments, including plenty of clubs, maces, submachine guns, flamethrowers, and knives. But did you know that the British developed a bayonet for their revolvers? British Captain Arthur Pritchard developed the Pritchard-Greener Bayonet…
KnifeNews: Two Custom World Heavyweights Collaborate on Wild Bestech Excentric
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…
BladeHQ Tutorial Tuesday: How to Adjust Knife Action
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…
The Knife Edge: The Variable Wharncliffe
It’s an awful name, not at all descript. It’s a fixed blade knife and you have no options on blade or handle length. Be that as it may, it is a cool knife. Let’s look into it. The knife was designed by Dirk Pinkerton, one of the up-and-coming knife designers…
Crucible Industries announces potential closure
In a “WARN Act” (NY’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) Notification filed last week, Crucible Industries has announced that it plans to close affective March 2025. The announcement is causing shock waves in knife circles, as Crucible is a major producer of knife steel, including the uber-popular MagnaCut. According to…
The Modern Knife Show Experience: More Than Just a Sales Event by Roger Eckstine
The Modern Knife Show Experience – More Than Just a Sales EventBy Roger Eckstine The increase in the number of knife shows being held across the country is not an illusion no matter what long time collectors might say. Yet looking back to when I was assigned to write the…