Knife2 - The zest for Knives

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