The following interview is with craftsman Adam LaFon, owner of LaFon Handmade: Are you from Buffalo? If not what brought you here? I’m actually a pretty recent transplant. I moved to Buffalo from ...

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 ...

This knife build draws attention by replacing the usual handle with a metal chain. That choice gives the project a stark industrial look while also raising questions about grip, balance and ...

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 ...

Chelsea Miller started making custom knives in 2011 and has grown her client list to include some of the top chefs in the world. Business Insider visited her Brooklyn studio to learn how she does it.

Don Carlos Andrade has always regarded knives as more than practical tools for slicing, dicing and chopping. If they’re built with care and precision, knives have the power to inspire and motivate ...

Turns out my sister-in-law’s dad also happens to be one of my most loyal, longtime readers. Before meeting him for the first time this summer at his daughter’s wedding, I wanted to get him a little ...

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 ...

Todd Begg’s thick hands, stained with machine-shop grime, could be mistaken for a mechanic’s. Instead, they are the hands of one of the country’s foremost craftsmen in his field — the creator of ...

TL;DR: Upgrade your knives to this Seido™ set, which comes with eight knives handmade in Japan for $129.97 (reg. $429) for two more days. Not to scare you or anything, but do you realize that ...