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New Knives May 2025

Have the yen to build our your collection? Just need a sharp new blade? Check out these new knives for May and build out your wishlist.
Alfredo Faccipieri will ably represent Italy. His chef’s knife features a 6.75-inch blade of a Svavner pattern damascus by Damasteel and scales of stabilized gray buckeye. Overall length: 12.5 inches. (Jocelyn Frasier image)

2025 BLADE Show Preview: A Truly International Knife Affair

Only at the BLADE Show do the continents come together so well. With the possible exception of Antarctica and a stray archipelago or two, knife fans and knifemakers from every continent and beyond will come...
CUSTOM BEST IN SHOW/BEST FIGHTER Franco de Souza’s Bella sports a 14-inch blade, guard, spacer, finial and pommel of Spirograph damascus in six bars of a Turkish pattern. Handle: mammoth tusk. Franco did the 24k-gold engraving. His price for a similar knife: $13,500.

2025 BLADE Show Texas Recap: Sharp In The Lone Star State

Blade-o-philes from far and wide converged to cut in Fort Worth.
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2025 BLADE Show Knife Debuts: What’s Coming Out!

Knife companies will debut their latest at BLADE Show 2025. Knives and plenty of them, the BLADE Show is the Mecca for anything that cuts, hack or chops. It's also a launching pad. Many companies wait...
The author met Steve Randall and his wife, Alison, at the 2015 BLADE Show. Today, Steve’s table is always the author’s first BLADE Show stop. Steve’s Tumbleweed Damascus Fighter sports an 8.5-inch blade of spellbinding mosaic damascus and an ancient walrus ivory handle. Guard: damascus. Ferrule and buttcap: nitre blued to a rich brown color. Overall length: 13 inches. Steve’s price for a similar knife: $3,200. (SharpByCoop image)

Reflecting On Attending 40 BLADE Shows

BLADE Show ’25 is the author’s 40th BLADE Show—and counting.
The Saker bushcraft knife by the author’s Diving Sparrow Knife Works in hand. As he writes, “Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools, he is nothing—with tools he is all.” (Thomas Carlyle image)

Knife Handle: Why Handle Ergonomics Should Be Your Focus

How you exert control determines knife handle design.
It was a cutlery custom for someone who received a knife as a gift—such as this 2007 official Cub Scout knife by Colonial—to give the presenter a penny in return.

Penny For A Knife: Unraveling The History Of This Tradition

The fascinating origins of the "penny for a knife" custom, from ancient Rome to Sheffield. Learn why a coin was exchanged saved friendships.
The artwork for the BLADE Show Beer includes the knives of, clockwise from top left: Seth Lopez kukri, Mareko Maumasi gyuto chef’s knife, Will Brigham stainless hunter, Henning Wilkinson sword, Josh Prince Chinese cleaver and Will Stelter dagger. Gabe said he doesn’t know who made the balisong but he put it in there because there’s a lot of them at the BLADE Show. (art by Massive Face)

BLADE Show Beer: Brew That Taps Into Blades

Gabe Fletcher/knifemaker ale collaborations lead to the official BLADE Show Beer.
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