In this video we will make damask steel from a rope. Then we will make a Japanese kitchen knife from an ingot of steel. I ...

Patrick Brennan describes the process of making Damascus steel as ‘magical.’ The knife maker Patrick Brennan welds a piece in his workshop in Ireland. In March, he became a full member of the ...

“The heat, the hammering, creating something out of nothing, it’s absolutely addicting.” That is how knife smith Sergio Menchaca describes forging a hand-crafted knife and his passion for the forge ...

Suffering burnout from her software engineering job, Jane Lee now forges exquisite custom Japanese knives for a living.

As a carpenter, David Root has always been interested in hand tools. Originally from Santa Fe, he wanted to move to a smaller rural community and have a product he could sell locally. Root ran across ...

I have a set of kitchen knives I inherited from my grandmother. Family lore says that my aunt spent alot of money on them and gave them to my grandparents maybe 15 or 20 years ago.<br><br>Google comes ...