In this video, we cook Wootz steel from tool bits. From the ingot that turned out, we make a chopping knife. We decided to make the handle for the knife from a particularly durable material - carbon.

In this video, we melt crucible steel from a spring. From the resulting ingot we make a chopper knife. We decided to make a knife handle from a particularly durable material - carbon fiber. The knife ...

It was a hunt to remember, but the antlers weren’t big enough to justify a mount. So you’ve hung them from the workshop rafters, where soon they’ll be forgotten. Why not make a memento before the mice ...

Duy Pham didn’t want to spend $600. Seven years ago, the now-omakase chef at Hana Matsuri Glendale looked at his knives and realized it was time to replace the handles. “Expensive Japanese knives are ...

Carl Sagan once said: “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” In other words, the term “scratch” is really a relative sort of thing. Did you grow the ...

Like many chefs, Duy Pham is fastidious about his knives, one of the most important tools in the kitchen. So when one of his knife handles broke a few years ago, he took it to a local repair shop in ...

MILAN — Sometimes the most useful tool can also be the simplest — and that is definitely true when talking about the “tollekniv,” also known as a Norwegian work knife. Usually created from a laminated ...