This old Soviet wrench was headed for the scrap bin - until I turned it into a fierce and stylish karambit knife. In this ...

Turning trash into a beautiful Damascus masterpiece! Witness the ultimate alchemy of blacksmithing as I transform rusty scrap ...

Sergio Menchaca forging a knife on July 28. Photograph by Jeff Wilson. By Laurel Miller. October 2023. Two years ago I asked Sergio Menchaca, of Texas Sage Forge, to make me an eight ...

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 ...

Elting said Steel Pig Forge can do pretty much anything when it comes to forging a knife. He uses a 200-pound Trenton anvil from 1915 that belonged to his grandfather and a power hammer from 1921.

Collier says, "I got into knife making to impress my wife." She was his girlfriend then, a chef in an Austin restaurant. It must have worked, they've been married now for 13 years.

A sudden clanging brings me back to the task at hand: forging […] Looking out the open-air veranda off the back of a recycled corrugated metal workshop, I see lush and leafy banana, ...

Contestants from the weapons-making show and forging demonstrations are on tap at the 2024 Lehigh Valley Knife Show scheduled 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28-29, at ...