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Designer Tomer Botner launched Florentine Kitchen Knives in 2012. Named after the Floretin neighborhood in Tel-Aviv, where it began, the brand is known for its “stacked handled” custom blades, which ...

In this video, we make a knife from an old file. We are trying to show the whole process of making a handmade knife. The blade material is an old file, the handle is a mikarta, the scabbard is a ...

Flint (and glass) knapping is no longer practiced on a large scale, but it used to be the primary method of making weapons for primitive cultures. In this day and age of course, it’s easy to go to the ...

The following interview is with craftsman Adam LaFon, owner of LaFon Handmade: Are you from Buffalo? If not what brought you here? I’m actually a pretty recent transplant. I moved to Buffalo from ...