WHERE DO KNIFEMAKERS COME FROM?
Editor’s note: It’s been a long time since High Endurance Performance Knife master smith/BLADE® field editor Ed Fowler last wrote for BLADE—since the September 2017 issue, to be exact. Ill health forced one of our favorite scribes to attend to something much more demanding of his time than writing: his own well-being. He’s better now, though, and back—and you’ve got him! Enjoy!
Often I find myself wondering where my desire to make knives originated. I often come up with many little pieces of my personal history that pointed me in the direction I usually find myself. This article covers one tiny piece of many experiences that led me to what I do.
EARLY LESSONS
One of my early knife recollections is seeing my grandfather open his pocketknife and sharpen his pencil. It was World War II. My father was in France and my family was living in Denver, Colorado. I was just about in kindergarten. While
