Vendors prepare for the third annual Natural State Knife Show at the Embassy Suites Pinnacle Ballroom in Rogers. The show opens Friday and runs through Saturday ...

I first met Hayden Kessel at Colorado Pastured Pork in Hotchkiss. I was there to check out owner-rancher Toby McPartland’s pastured heritage pig operation, and ranch hand Kessel was there to co-lead ...

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 ...

There are a lot of great knives being made in Poland, South Africa, France, Russia, Japan, and, yes, China. But, hand on a bible, I believe the very best knives are still being made in the United ...

Rudy Ruana was once quoted as saying, “You pay for the blade and the rest is free.” While not totally true, the main goal at Ruana Knife Works in Bonner has been, and will always remain, to produce a ...

Welcome to Talking Points, a series that looks at what makes certain products worth talking about, brought to you by Gear Patrol Studios. Knife heads know Ken Onion — and if you don’t, it’s time to ...

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 ...

The Mystic Knife Show will take place March 7 and 8 at the Mystic Hilton Hotel in Mystic, Connecticut, bringing together custom knife makers, and knife collectors from across the region for a two-day ...

The slipjoint may be one of the oldest folding knife mechanisms there is, but that does not stop makers from revisiting it again and again, striving to make the simplest design function just a bit ...