Knife making begins with a single piece of steel and a hot forge. This video shows how a small carving knife is forged, shaped, and refined into a functional blade. A great look at traditional ...

ISABELLA, Minnesota — Jamiah Mahoney’s forge blazed yellow and orange, as the propane tank buzzed in a low hum. With a pair of tongs, he removed a rectangular piece of metal from the fire. It shifted ...

Welcome to Talking Points, a series that looks at what makes certain products worth talking about, brought to you by Gear Patrol Studios. Down the River Forge creates unique knives equipped for any ...

Two years ago I asked Sergio Menchaca, of Texas Sage Forge, to make me an eight-inch chef’s knife. For the blade’s raw material, I sent him the mid-century steel hoof testers that my father, who is ...

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 ...

At Middleton Made Knives in South Carolina, Quintin Middleton makes Damascus steel chef knives by welding two types of steel together. The bladesmith extends the concept of “blending” into his forging ...

How I made the forge used in this video: • How to Make a Soup Can Forge This is a simple overview of how I made my first knife using a soup can forge. The result was simple and comfortable to hold, ...

Some 700 years ago, a famous Japanese blacksmith from Kyoto, named Kuniyasu Chiyozuru, came to the village of Takefu (now Echizen) in the state, or prefecture, called Fukui. There, he transformed the ...

Blenheim Forge began in the most modest way imaginable: with a homemade brick oven in a garden, powered by a leaf blower. A decade later, founders James Ross-Harris, Jon Warshawsky, and Richard Warner ...