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…
Hello fellow People of the Knife… Anything happen since we last convened? As a general rule, we keep the Weekend Open Thread fairly apolitical, but all people of good faith can be happy that our country has not suffered the trauma of a successful assassination of a former President/current front…
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 US has birthed a lot of great knife companies like Buck, Gerber, and SOG, which have all created iconic American knives, and maintained a certain high reputation as American made. But at some point, all of them have had to cut costs or manage the cost of expansion by…
Knife Rights Ultimate Steel 2024 is in its final 2 weeks. The annual fundraiser for Knife Rights pulls together one of the most incredible assemblages of knives each year, everything from production knives to one-off, custom objets d’art. They are in the “Tail End” drawing phase, which means that there…
Warwood Tool reached out to us about sharing their online Tomahawk Auction, which is taking place this weekend. It says you can preview the ‘hawks on their website, but I only saw the countdown clock. I imagine that when they go live on Saturday, it will be working. I wasn’t…
Coverage of the mid-year Boker releases continues with the imposing Cheus, an aggressive dagger-styled folder from Alexey Ponomarev of the appropriately named Brutalica Knives. In June, we wrote about the Boker Atropos, a design from Chuck Gedraitis based on mid-20th century fighting knives. While the Cheus is ultimately a quite…
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…
COLUMBUS, OH — A new bill introduced in the Ohio Senate aims to align state…
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