A Portage la Prairie craftsman is turning reclaimed steel into handcrafted knives, blending family tradition with self-taught ...

SALISBURY — USA Made Blade will hold an open house at BackCountry and Beyond on Saturday, Nov. 5, at 322 South Main St. from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Custom knife makers will include Rick Hinderer from Hinderer ...

Barryville — To custom knife maker Kurt Meerdink, knife-making is all about performance. "If my name goes on a knife, it absolutely cannot fail," he declares. The Sullivan County man crafts tactical ...

HOT SPRINGS – Local custom knife maker Rodney Watts has announced that his second annual Guest Maker Series will take place next week, July 17-19, and feature renowned “slip joint folder maker” Bill ...

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 ...

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 ...

FAIRBANKS — Unlike many of the custom knives Mark Knapp makes, there is nothing exotic about the 1911 Combat Survivor Knife. The handle is not made of musk ox horn, mammoth ivory, fossilized walrus ...

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 ...