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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anthony Bourdain partnered with whisky distillery Balvenie for his newest show exploring the world’s best craftsmen and artisans. Episode four of the Raw Craft series saw Bourdain at the metal ...

Some 700 years ago, a famous Japanese blacksmith from Kyoto, named Kuniyasu Chiyozuru, came to the village of Takefu (now Echizen) in the state, or prefecture, called Fukui. There, he transformed the ...

“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 ...