In this build, I’m turning a basic knife kit into something way more personal by making custom wooden handle scales from scratch. From cutting and matching the scales to drilling pin holes, epoxying ...

While the blade of a given knife is obviously the most important part — it’s the part that does the cutting, after all — the handle is only slightly less important, as you’re not going to do much ...

Pocket knives come equipped with handles of all types: plastic, nylon, titanium, wood, stone, even bone. But over the last decade or so, ebony, a wood that comes from several tropical species of tree, ...

Forget the hipsters. The true soul of Portland can be found in the knife makers who practice their craft in this rainy city ...