Patrick Brennan describes the process of making Damascus steel as ‘magical.’ The knife maker Patrick Brennan welds a piece in his workshop in Ireland. In March, he became a full member of the ...

From Issue Five of Gear Patrol Magazine. Discounted domestic shipping + 15% off in the GP store for new subscribers. Bob Kramer, wearing a black welding mask and long leather apron, flipped a switch ...

Two years ago I asked Sergio Menchaca, of Texas Sage Forge, to make me an eight-inch chef’s knife. For the blade’s raw material, I sent him the mid-century steel hoof testers that my father, who is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Click here to read the full article. Like many chefs, Duy Pham is fastidious about his knives, one of the most important tools in ...

Blenheim Forge began in the most modest way imaginable: with a homemade brick oven in a garden, powered by a leaf blower. A decade later, founders James Ross-Harris, Jon Warshawsky, and Richard Warner ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. assorted knives hanging on a magnetic strip A good chef’s knife is a central player in your kitchen lineup. Most chefs will tell ...

Looking out the open-air veranda off the back of a recycled corrugated metal workshop, I see lush and leafy banana, macadamia and coffee trees—and I know the Pacific Ocean is not far behind this wall ...

“The heat, the hammering, creating something out of nothing, it’s absolutely addicting.” That is how knife smith Sergio Menchaca describes forging a hand-crafted knife and his passion for the forge ...

A decent knife should be able to cut a tomato into small strips without applying pressure to the tomato or crushing it in the process of doing so. Therefore, Santoku knife variants such as the Haarko ...

A chef without a knife is like a dog without a nose. Both may be able to make a go of it, but there is something seriously wrong with the picture. Good chefs know good knives can be investments that ...