This week, I take my first stab at knife making by forging a spider knife with a REAL orb weaver spider cast in epoxy resin in the handle. My first forging project received crucial help from David ...

Two years ago I asked Sergio Menchaca, of Texas Sage Forge, to make me an eight-inch chef’s knife. For the blade’s raw material, I sent him the mid-century steel hoof testers that my father, who is ...