We visited the Takefu Knife Village to see how some of the most respected knife-making masters in Japan practice their craft. Walk into most knife or kitchenware stores and you're likely to encounter ...

Witness the stunning transformation of a simple saw into a finely crafted Japanese kitchen knife. How can a saw be reimagined into a functional and sharp tool for culinary precision? This video dives ...

“Don’t touch anything you don’t recognize in here because it might be hot, electrified, covered in acid, or all three,” Theo Nazz tells me as he welcomes me into his forge and blacksmithing school in ...

The production of knives flourished in Sakai due to the rich history of traditional metal processing techniques. Richard A. Brooks/AFP via Getty Images Eighty-five-year-old Etsuro Ikegami wipes the ...

Joe Caswell’s knife-making process starts with popsicle sticks, and his latest knife, called the Provoke, looks like something out of a Klingon fever dream. He based the design on an Indonesian ...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Gear Patrol Magazine Issue 18 in the Summer of 2022. Over the past decade, Quintin Middleton has become a name synonymous with handmade culinary ...

If you ask a crowd of people how they define art, you’re unlikely to get the same answer twice. Some people see art as a form of self-expression or a state of being. Others see it as a decoration or ...

The former rugby player talks about his passion for knife-making, while top bladesmiths around the country explain how interest in their craft is growing, with more and more people attending workshops ...

Mar. 30—ASHLAND — Hanging on the refrigerator in Jonathan Wessel's blacksmith shop is a photo of his mother, Judith. The photo watches over Wessel as he forges knives in the former hot rod shop turned ...

A kitchen without a knife is like a book without letters. Without their main ingredient, a kitchen is only a room and a book is simply a collection of blank pages. Surely, you do require other ...