Escaping the Vacuum: Take a Knifemaking Class to Get Yourself Out of the Rut – by Jamin Brackett I started my knifemaking journey in 2009. I have hit many walls along the way. God always seemed to put the right mentor in my path, at just the right time. Over the years, my mentors have

We at KNIFE get feedback from subscribers all the time about how much they appreciate the beautiful look of each new issue of the magazine. That isn’t an accident, we don’t want the beauty of the knives to be overshadowed by advertisements or other distracting graphics on the page. While our oversized format certainly contributes

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Those poor pumpkins. almost as bad as when you see a wantonly wasted steelhead or salmon hen that was gutted for its roe and discarded. Del will understand. That is even worse than fishing over redds. Welcome fellow People of the Knife to the latest Weekend Open Thread. As the leaves begin to change and

Michael W. Silvey: Knifemaker and Writer By Jim Sornberger Like many of us who grew up in the 1940s and ‘50s, Mike Silvey appreciated and made some knives as a kid, even making some out of scrap metal. This of course led to more and more time devoted to a knife fixation, as it has ⋆ ⋆ Premium Content ⋆ ⋆ This content is reserved for members only.Visit the link below to become a member and unlock all the content. BECOME A MEMBER TODAY JOIN NOW

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Howdy folks and Happy Friday… Press Week for the October issue has now come and gone. This one snuck up on me with the holiday weekend last week. I hadn’t even started my Knife News column when I walked into the office on Tuesday morning. It made for a long 24 hours. While I am

In the opinion of many, the single most important and influential book on knives in the United States was one of the very first on the subject, AMERICAN KNIVES by Harold L. Peterson (1958). Arriving in the wake of the novel and movie THE IRON MISTRESS and THE ADVENTURES OF JIM BOWIE TV show, Peterson’s

There are never any shortage of rabbit holes to dive down in this business, and you never know where they might take you. When I asked Mark if there were any good stories tying knife history to Labor Day, I wasn’t expecting to go down a rabbit hole which connected to another recent topic on

That explains a lot. Joe is a great guy, one of my favorite people in the industry. I made that meme myself, or rather I tweaked an existing one. But in the memeverse, that gives me the right to watermark the new meme as my own. I missed this by a week… Absolutely savage. This