BLADE Staff

We will be at the NY show that is being held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in SECAUCUS NJ. November 19,20,12 2010.
We will have a good seldction of knives. If you can drop by and say hello.
Pat and Wes Crawford

Granger Knives is the Knife Showcase Knifemaker of the Week for Oct. 31, 2010.

Paul Granger has been turning out pieces since 1998 as Granger Knives and Pale Horse Fighters.

Despite fate’s best efforts to keep him from doing so, Granger said he sees no end in sight for his knifemaking.

“I’ve been shot, paralyzed from the neck down twice, almost died from meningitis and gone through a windshield backwards. So I know God loves me and isn’t through with me yet.”

Click here to visit the Granger Knives page on Knife Showcase.

POST FALLS, IDAHO– When a 110 Folding Hunter rolled off the production line at Buck Knives on Friday, Oct. 29, it was the millionth knife made this year.

“We’re breaking records,” said Phil Duckett, Buck’s chief operating officer. “It’s awesome, and we still have two months to go.”

Another positive sign of growth has been the addition of 40 new employees this year, bringing Buck’s total workforce to 250 in their Post Falls, Idaho, plant.

“This is a testament to our commitment to making our products in America,” Duckett said. “The troops on the floor worked hard to get us to these impressive numbers.”

Pictured: Buck employees with the millionth knife produced in 2010.

Looks like man’s oldest tool just got older.

According to the journal Science, prehistoric humans were using a “highly skilled method” of making knives 75,000 years ago, about 55,000 years earlier than previously thought.

It had been assumed that the technique of “pressure-flaking”—otherwise known in the knife industry as “knapping” and practiced by Errett Callahan, Eric Bergland and others—was invented by Europeans 20,000 years ago. Basically, knapping consists of exerting pressure against the stone knife with another tool to create a sharp edge.

However, University of Colorado researchers found the same technique used in sharpening the “stone weapons” discovered in Blombos Cave in South Africa and knapped some 55,000 years earlier.

The researchers arrived at their conclusion by knapping some knives of their own and comparing the results to the stone points found in the Blombos Cave. The similarities between the results of the researchers’ knapped knives and many of the stone points from the cave led them to conclude the technique was used much earlier in the Middle Stone Age.

Information on exactly how the stone points were dated was unavailable at press time.

For more information visit http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/article863181.ece

Master Smith Jim Crowell has just posted ” Creating a Temper Line or Hamon” on the ABS Forum Click here to read this step by step article.