A simple knife kit becomes something entirely unique when paired with a custom handmade handle. The process begins with selecting the right wood for durability and appearance. Careful shaping ensures ...

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 ...

As careful as Dan Eastland is, he still tends to get cut a lot. Fileted flesh is par for the course when your life’s work is building custom knives. Eastland has sliced and diced and punctured himself ...

The executive chef at Foraged restaurant creates custom knife handles using exotic materials such as mammoth tusk and mother of pearl. As a young chef in 1999, Duy Pham purchased his first Japanese ...

Over the last year I've gotten dangerously (for my wallet, that is) enthusiastic about Japanese kitchen knives, of which I now own seven. They all have octagonal wooden wa-style handles. One of my ...

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 ...

Designer Tomer Botner launched Florentine Kitchen Knives in 2012. Named after the Floretin neighborhood in Tel-Aviv, where it began, the brand is known for its “stacked handled” custom blades, which ...