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July 12, 2022
Production in a Small Shop
Join or Die Knives is four businesses in one. I started selling my handmade knives in 2014 and a few years later started offering basic knife making classes. As the shop grew I founded the Hardway Workshop which is a membership community knife shop and now I have added small scale batch production.
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May 11, 2022
Reproductions
I am sometimes asked to make reproductions of knives and swords. It's not very often but when it happens it is always an interesting challenge. Every project incorporates at least...
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April 7, 2022
Shad Fishing on the James
Living in Richmond gives me the opportunity to work with some great people. The guys at Current Culture Fly Shop are a good example. They were interested in carrying our...
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March 1, 2022
Head Space
There is quite a bit of repetitive motion in the knife shop. Forging can be fun but grinding and hand sanding are the real time sinks in knife making....
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February 21, 2022
Entropy
Chaos is clearly the natural state of my knife shop. There is a constant battle against clutter, dust, spills, and general disarray in the shop that I feel like I...
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February 14, 2022
Community
Many knifemakers have a workspace where they can go be alone. It’s a refuge from the stressful elements of their life where they can put on music or a podcast...
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February 7, 2022
Competition
As I sit in my tiny cubicle trailer on the Forged in Fire set between Doug Marcida's "Keel" test with the other contestant I can't help but think back on...
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January 25, 2022
Opportunity Cost
We have a saying around the shop that goes like this: “Knife makers don’t make mistakes, just shorter knives.” But we do make mistakes, a lot of them all the time. Knowing how to fix mistakes or unexpected problems is essentially what it means to be good in any field of pursuit.
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