As with things like car interiors and leather boots, customization occupies the grail-level heights of the pocket knife world. But just as those items tend to be synonymous with luxury, custom knives ...
Chelsea Miller started making custom knives in 2011 and has grown her client list to include some of the top chefs in the world. Business Insider visited her Brooklyn studio to learn how she does it.
With my inability to make it to blade show this year, I was blessed to have the chance to interview my good friend and custom knife maker Peter Kohler, owner of Dark Timber Custom Knives. He will be ...
An explosion of interest in bespoke, handmade knives is being fuelled by social media and reality television, with thousands turning out to see the "rock stars" of the knifemaking world at trade shows ...
Don Carlos Andrade has always regarded knives as more than practical tools for slicing, dicing and chopping. If they’re built with care and precision, knives have the power to inspire and motivate ...
The baseline concept behind everyday carry is to craft a small complement of necessary tools to get you through your days. By this definition, even people who are unaware of the term EDC still ...
A William Henry pocketknife or pen is as much intuitive as it is utilitarian, as much a piece of art as it is an award-winning accessory. Crafted from metals, wood, stone, fossil ivories and more, ...
I first met Hayden Kessel at Colorado Pastured Pork in Hotchkiss. I was there to check out owner-rancher Toby McPartland’s pastured heritage pig operation, and ranch hand Kessel was there to co-lead ...
The following interview is with craftsman Adam LaFon, owner of LaFon Handmade: Are you from Buffalo? If not what brought you here? I’m actually a pretty recent transplant. I moved to Buffalo from ...
As careful as Dan Eastland is, he still tends to get cut a lot. Fileted flesh is par for the course when your life’s work is building custom knives. Eastland has sliced and diced and punctured himself ...