But somehow we’re always drawn back to the simplest of knife handles — wood. Wood was among the first materials makers used to craft folding pocket knives, but now it’s often a luxury ingredient in ...

Forty-three years ago we got a lovely set of Sheffield steak knives with ... the technical term for the part of a knife handle that’s made of wood, plastic, bone or, on your knives, horn.

Pocket knives come equipped with handles of all types: plastic, nylon, titanium, wood, stone, even bone. But over the last decade or so, ebony, a wood that comes from several tropical species of tree, ...

However, while Sheffield ... of knives, from kitchen and pocket to bespoke orders. “If it’s got an edge to it, I’ll have a go,” he says. Customers also send him in special types of wood ...

“Sheffield has a very prominent ... Will has handcrafted knife handles from both traditional materials such as wood, yew scales and rosewood and more unusual ingredients like cow bone, bob ...

If you break the handle on your favorite kitchen knife you will probably either look ... instructs you to use am older piece of wood that is mostly dry for the new handle. Cut the wood in the ...

A collection of antique knives produced in Sheffield has sold at auction for almost double its original estimate. Amassed over 40 years by David Hayden-Wright before his death in 2006, the ...