When people hear the words ‘handmade’ or ‘hand-forged,’ they imagine a big hairy sooted guy, sweating and hammering away on steel in front of a furnace. On the other hand, ‘machine made’ has a more modern, technologically advanced, and cleaner persona. Also, when people need to rank ‘handmade’ versus ‘machine-made’ knives, they will probably ran...

When we consider the word 'hand-forged,' a couple of epic images come to mind. There is the forging of the rings in Lord of the Rings, or perhaps the scene where Thor creates Stormbreaker in Nidavellir. Maybe, you imagine a medieval blacksmith, battering away at a broadsword, fit for a knight.Hand-forging of knives is no different; it is an epic...