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 ...

A Portage la Prairie craftsman is turning reclaimed steel into handcrafted knives, blending family tradition with self-taught ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If, as the chef Sascha Lyon says, knives are one of the cool toys of his profession, then plenty of amateurs are aiming to play with the pros. “The choices ...

Traditional and hybrid Japanese blades have a reputation for being nearly perfect knives, and they deserve it.

MIDVALE, IDAHO • He almost blushes as he pulls out the knife he keeps in his jeans pocket — a folding knife purchased through a mail-order catalog for $20. "I can't keep a knife," Dwight Towell says ...

Eighty-five-year-old Etsuro Ikegami wipes the wet blade across my fingers like I’m taking part in an initiation ceremony. His gaze never leaves my face. He wants to know if I feel the burr on the edge ...

To achieve very nice and perfect cooking, you can’t take away the importance of having complete, working, and efficient kitchen utensils. I mean, a farmer without his tools, is very handicapped. That ...

HOT SPRINGS – Local custom knife maker Rodney Watts has announced that his second annual Guest Maker Series will take place next week, July 17-19, and feature renowned “slip joint folder maker” Bill ...

As careful as Dan Eastland is, he still tends to get cut a lot. Fileted flesh is par for the course when your life’s work is building custom knives. Eastland has sliced and diced and punctured himself ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. assorted knives hanging on a magnetic strip A good chef’s knife is a central player in your kitchen lineup. Most chefs will tell ...

The production of knives flourished in Sakai due to the rich history of traditional metal processing techniques. Richard A. Brooks/AFP via Getty Images Eighty-five-year-old Etsuro Ikegami wipes the ...