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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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MasterKnives: Creating a Damascus Knife from Car Chains!
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…
KnifeNews: LionSteel KC-01 was Born in the Italian Knife Community
LionSteel’s latest project is a bit different than a standard full production release. The company is rolling out a limited edition fixed blade called the KC-01, a tribute by and for members of a prominent online Italian knife community. Knife Community Italia began in 2020, a year when online meeting…
The story of the Chinese “Carrot Knife”
College student Zhou Wenhao studies marine engineering in the central Chinese city of Wuhan by day. By night, he tinkers with 3D printing machines. In the summer of 2022, he printed a green and white toy switchblade smaller than the palm of his hand. Zhou named it “carrot knife” because…
Jens Anso describes naming a knife…
Nothing earthshaking here, though I have heard it said many times by countless makers that the hardest part of making a knife is coming up with a name for it. Danish maker Jens Anso describes his latest knife as being on the easier side… Read the full…
Gear Patrol: The Best Utility Knives
When it comes to DIY projects around the house, prepping for more involved construction jobs or breaking down a bunch of cardboard boxes, it pays to have a utility knife close at hand. After extensive testing — and hundreds of packages — these are the best ones we’ve found. Read the full…
Cutting Competition at the James Black Festival
We don’t cover enough cutting competition stuff on the blog. Mostly because the footage is really out of date by the time it is posted, or it is uploaded quickly, but it is raw cell phone footage, and of dubious quality. There are actually 6 videos of the competition on…