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

What do you do with a broken wrench? Turn it into a knife, of course. In this build, I give a damaged old hand tool a second ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

Forging Resilience is a grassroots knife-making program for Purple Heart veterans and wounded officers in Texas. Through physical and mental work, many find peace in an unexpected place: the forge.

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.