Review: Spartan Hassi Dagger
The Spartan Harsey Dagger is a collaboration between Spartan Blades and longtime designer William “Bill” Harsey Jr. It embodies the heritage of this iconic fighting knife along with design refinements and modern knife manufacturing excellence. |——The long history of the dagger Daggers have an air of mystery, and we often see their symbolism in military […]
The dick’s counterattack! Blacksmiths with red necks also have artistic geniuses——appreciation and analysis of Larry Fulgan’s works
In the past two years, I have been focusing on the collection of modern knives on high-artistic, exquisite and gorgeous knife makers, such as Wolfgang and Jurgen in the “Four Wonders” of artistic knives, the first gold carving master Barry Lee, Loveless first apprentice Johnson to these masters. I feel that I have a thorough […]
The Three Musketeers in the Knife World – The Three CAS Brothers
CAS Knife consists of Argentinian brothers Claudio Alejandro Sobral, Ariel Ricardo Sobral and Marcelo Sobral. Since childhood, Claudio has been fascinated with weapons. At the age of 16, he left high school and started working in a gun factory, learning the techniques of making: blacksmithing, machining, milling, polishing, blushing and the skills needed for branding. […]
What is the highest production difficulty in the world – Jurgen’s unique mosaic technique
As a kind of artistic knife decoration method, inlay is actually a perfect match for knives, because the technique of inlay has many overlaps with the skills required for knife making itself, so many inlays in the works of knife makers are also made by themselves. To illustrate with an example: This is a great […]
APPRECIATION OF MASTERWORKS | MICK DI PACO – ZEUS/APENNINE WARRIOR/ROMAN WINGS
|——Zeus Zeus——This work is the winner of the “Best Collaborative Knife Award” at the International Custom Knife Exhibition (ICCE) in September 2018. It was created by Mick and American Blacksmiths Association (ABS) “Master (MS)” Samuel Lu Quinn made it together. This piece is a one-piece steel Bowie model, Damascus steel forged by Samuel. The pattern […]
Appreciation of works by famous craftsmen | Harvey Dean – Mississippi Bowie/D Gauntlet Bowie/Classical Feather Bowie
| — Mississippi Boye Mississippi Boye – The blade is made of Harvey forged Mississippi Damascus steel, with fine patterns like the satellite cloud image of the Mississippi River. A brightly colored pattern in the middle of the blade symbolizes the main road, and countless branches extend outward from the mainstream, or converge toward the […]
Gerber’s signature daggers MARK 1 and MARK II
It was 1983, just after Christmas. As a teenager, somehow lost in the mists of time, I went to the Mayfair Shopping Center with my mum. We don’t go there very often as it’s the furthest mall from home, but whenever we do I make sure to stop by and check out the items from […]
Matsuda Kikuo——Grinding technology is unique in the world
Friends who love metal art are probably familiar with the name of Matsuda Kikuo. He has been to the Beijing Knife Exhibition, and we have met him. Due to language problems, we did not interview him. Many Chinese people love his designs and have a series of collections of his works. So what are the […]