Going from passion to viable business is the first hurdle for a new entrepreneur. When a project is just a pipe dream or a hobby on the side, it’s easy to only see the positives. After all, those ...

Hundreds of steel needles are transformed into a Damascus knife through an intricate forging process. The needles are heated and compressed into a billet, allowing the steel pieces to bond together.

BELLOWS FALLS — Ever since Kyle and Kaila met, they’ve been making custom knives and swords together. Kaila Cumings-Farace has been making custom knives and swords for eight years; and her husband, ...

A Damascus knife is forged using 100 steel springs, demonstrating the transformation of industrial materials into a functional blade. The springs are heated, flattened and layered to form a billet ...

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 ...

In a sunlit workshop nestled in the rolling hills of Southern California, a unique artistry unfolds daily, marked by the rhythmic clang of hammer against steel. This is the world of Dave Ellis, the ...

None of this would have happened were it not for cable TV. Like many guys, I’m a skilled — one might even say professional — ...

Friday afternoon one of the insufferably Texan minions of the Mad Duo posted an article about Confederate Forge, an old school one-man operation making extraordinary blades there in the Lone Star ...