There are a lot of reasons to buy a pocket knife — to have handy for opening packages, to use for campsite meal prep, to add to a growing collection. Here’s another one: because it looks beautiful.

On a farm in West Cork in Ireland, surrounded by a frenzy of pigs, cows, and chickens, is where Fingal Ferguson makes world-class handcrafted chef’s knives. His improvised workshop at the back of a ...

Turning a rusted bolt into a mirror‑shine, razor‑sharp folding pocket knife. The turning was very challenging; the maker ...

The Vikings had a law that every man was required to own a weapon and to carry it with them at all times. For the wealthiest Vikings, that meant carrying a sword, axe, and helmet, but for your average ...

There’s not much to a pocket knife — a blade and a handle, maybe it folds, maybe it fits onto a keychain or clips into a pocket. But under closer inspection, there’s a lot more than that. There are ...

Instead of actually designing a set of knives to match their individual purposes, designer Mia Schmallenbach turned to math to tell her what shape they should be. The beautiful Meeting set is the ...

Good kitchen knives are expensive. A top of the line Shun, for instance, can cost as much as $750. But one knife enthusiast promises to offer the same great quality knife for a fraction of the price.

A couple of years ago, I had a meeting with an advertising executive at Reynard, Andrew Tarlow’s restaurant in the Wythe Hotel. The executive — a self-proclaimed gym rat with a flair for bragging — ...

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