I really like this. Watch it now.

Made by Hand / No 2 The Knife Maker from Made by Hand on Vimeo.

Tags: knife, Knives, vignette

My backyard is… a wilderness. I have to knock down some pretty serious bushes to try an eco-friendly weed removal technique. Basically it consists of cutting everything down and putting plastic over it. This will get to 160+ degrees in the summer heat and bake all of the plants/seeds under it. Hopefully sterilizing the ground so I can plant grass or prairie seed bundles at the end of the year. Just down the hill is where I’ll have a small veggie garden… that’s another reason for not using chemicals.

Any way… I was looking around for a machete. With my love for gadgets/tools/sharp things I found a “few” sites with some American made knives and such.

• Ontario Knives can be found at Discount Cutlery Where I found a nice selection of Machetes.
• Leatherman (I feel naked when I don’t have my c33 in my pocket)
• Case Knives
• Buck Knives
• Ka-Bar Knives
• Kershaw Knives had some stuff made in the USA (Under the ZT brand also.)
• Tops Knives
• Bear and Son Cutlery
• Bark River Knife and Tool
• Silver Stag Knives
• Great Eastern Cutlery
• Schatt & Morgan
• Remington Cutlery
• Spyderco
• Colonel Coon
• Queen cutlery
• Cripple Creek cutlery
• Schrade Knives
• Heckler & Koch -  I couldn’t find knives on their site
• Masters of Defense
• Kissing Crane – I couldn’t find a website
• Randall King Knives
• RAT Cutlery (Now EESE knives)
• Wilson Tactical
• Fehrman Knives
• Entrek USA
• Marbles – Their website was broken.
• Bradley Knives
• Outdoor Edge
• Gerber

That is about all I could find. Comment if you know of more.

Update:

Found another while reading “Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life” By Neil Strauss

• Mad Dog Knives

Update again:

• Boye Boat Knives – Made with a cobalt alloy to be completely rust free, hold an edge, and sharpen quick.

Tags: Knives, made in the usa

Few Leatherman items I ran across today:

• Argentum Luxury Knives/Leatherman Tools, Beautiful collectors pieces.
• Leatherman Freestyle, Very Sharp Looking. via uncrate
• Check out the Red, White and Blue Micra

∞Leatherman

Tags: argentum, Freestyle, Knives, leatherman, micra, uncrate

Made in Minnesota.

Epicurean has an impressive selection of Cutting boards and Knife holders. I have been looking for a Magnetic Knife Holder for a while.
If you are in the market for a Cutting board, You can buy Epicurean on Amazon.

Epicurean via American Pride, American Products

Tags: food preparation, Kitchen, knife holders, Knives, Minnesota

Hello, My name is Ryan, and I’m addicted to Atwood’s pocket tools.

Seriously, is there a support group out there for this? I have only a few of these.   Peter’s tools are so popular he had to start a lottery to purchase one, to be fair to everyone. On the First go at the lottery guess who wins?  Yes I did.  If you are interested in getting one, Watch his Blog for announcements on items for sale or lottery. 

G4 Prybaby, TiBottleBug, TiBaby, and a PryBaby that I carry with me everywhere.

If you are lucky enough to get your hands on one, they are all designed to be multifunctional. I regularly use my PryBaby(Bottom) to open boxes, Schlafly Beer, take out nails or pushpins, or anything else that needs prying, screwing, or scraping.  I have attacked some serious tasks with it, and won.  

I lust after a SOPThing… Preferably a black one with the v-notch… Maybe one day.

Thanks for what you do Peter.

∞Atwood Knives

Tags: art, atwood, Knives, multi-tool, Outdoors, peter atwood, pocket tools, Prybaby, SOPThing, stuff I own, TiBaby, TiBottleBug