Marketing For Knifemakers: Do You Need A Website?
In a recent Facebook post, Mike Jeffries of 2 Birds Metal Works asked fellow knifemakers if they had a website, if it was worth the time and money to set up and maintain and...
Halloween Knives: Shriek Chic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDraPp9_kF8
Halloween knives conjure visions of human steak and Bela Lugosi, high tops and Frankenstein, and decapitations and zombies. Warming to the genre yet?
ABS master smith Wally Hayes makes a couple of Halloween knives that...
Midweek Maker Forged-Style: Mike MacInnes
Mike MacInnes of Holland, Michigan, remembers his first two knives, both given to him by his dad. The first was a Buck 110 clone and the second was a Solingen hunting knife. Mike has...
10 Pumpkin-Spiced Custom Knives Herald Halloween
It makes sense that pumpkin spice marketers would want to find ways to push a product that only got used once or twice a year in one or two pumpkin pies. Now, of course,...
Midweek Maker Forged-Style: Tyrell Johnson
Tyrell Johnson has always been interested in knives and firearms, and two-plus years ago he decided to take a knifemaking class at Montgomery Community College in North Carolina. “As my wife can attest, I've...
Great Knives Have “Face”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgK9PXJICXo
Great knives have face. I'm not talking about a face like on a Halloween mask, but a knife with a design or style that's recognizable by a large number of knife enthusiasts as having...
6 Knife Handles That Glow In The Dark
There are four categories of "glow." Bioluminescence is, say, a firefly. There's chemiluminescence, caused by a chemical reaction—think glow stick. Radioluminescence is most frequently used in clock or watch paints and on instrument panels....
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Knifemaking 101 – Read This Before You Make a Knife
by Wayne Goddard
My experience has taught me that there's nothing like digging in and getting started. I've often said the hardest part of the...
