My eyes light up at anything with a sleek design, so you can bet they were as wide as golf balls when I saw that square tube knife by YouTube knife maker Koss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_M-ChNcArg&ab_channel=Koss Koss used 01 high carbon alloy steel (non-shrinking steel which hardens in oil) for the blade of his project. He started shaping…
A few years ago, on a nice walk on the beach, knife enthusiast kiwami japan found a plastic bottle. Then he found an empty coffee can and a packet of unopened nori flakes. After sifting through the tons of trash he found washed ashore, he eventually came upon the remnants of half a shark’s jaw.…
Having made knives from everything from an old Jeep spring to a railroad spike, custom knife craftsperson Trollsky has proven time and time again that he can upcycle just about anything that’s made out of metal into a razor-sharp edge. For his latest trick, he looked no further than the toolbox in his workshop to…
While a broken shovel and a broken piece of concrete aren’t likely to generate a lot of of inspiration for most people, trained carpenter-turned paleolithic weapon craftsman John Heisz isn’t your average Joe. The Ontario, Canada-based Heisz operates a website and a YouTube channel that feature hundreds of made-from-scratch projects ranging from push brooms to…
When it comes to choosing people who you might want to be hanging out with during an apocalypse, leave it to those who are masters of upcycling…especially those who are also skilled in making crude weapons. Knife maker Trollsky of Poland recently uploaded a video to YouTube that shows his process of turning a leaf…