I recently repaired a set of Henckels knives for a customer. The handles had become badly cracked, and chunks were coming off. It was an interesting project and the interior construction of the tang, with its curves and a ridge running down the centre, presented some challenges that you don’t find with a typical full-tang […]
Author: M&M
Turning old steel into new knives
Many of my knives are made from recycled scrap steel from trucks. What could be more cool than that? I have a small pile of leaf spring I salvaged one day from a local auto wrecker. This leaf spring came from an old Ford F150 pickup, and I’ve made a few knives from it. Leaf […]
Repairing Cracked Knife Handles – It Can be Done
We repair broken knife handles and blades here in our Brantford Ontario shop. I get a lot of customers bringing me knives with cracked handles. Usually I am able to repair them, but the problem is easy to avoid with a little care – because the single biggest cause for cracked handles is putting knives […]