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Recorded on December 22, 2010 using a Flip Video camcorder.

Here’s a look at an infomercial for a knife from the 1950s. The segment was called “Delicious Dishes” and it played in movie theaters before features. If you showed up at the theater every week for 12 weeks, you got a knife or other kitchen tool. Can you imagine a theater doing that nowadays?

Although that’s changed, the key techniques for selling a knife is basically the same as today. Even in the 1950s, the paper test was the primary way to show off a sharp knife.

Note: The sound isn’t quite lined up with the image.

Footage from the Bladesports Lone Star Knife Cutting Competition on Dec. 5, 2010.

ABS Founder and Mastersmith Bill Moran describing how the American Bladesmith Society was founded in this recently discovered video clip.

We give you an overview of the Crawford Knives Survival Staff. This is a hiking staff that is a very high quality survival system. This staff can be used f…

Forging damascus steel with a hydraulic press. Dave Stephens. Anchorage Alaska.

Forging damascus steel with a hydraulic press. Dave Stephens. Anchorage Alaska.