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Forging One-of-a-kind Knives with @biltsharp

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“All of my knives are shaped bare-handed. I don’t use gloves so that I can feel the temperature of the steel,” says Adam Balkovic (@biltsharp), who makes hand-crafted knives from a small shop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “I very rarely cut myself, but I burn my hands up every single day.”

Adam’s knife-making began as a hobby, inspired in part by his work as a cheese monger. “I got the urge to make a ten inch chef knife like the ones we used at the cheese shop,” Adam explains. “I mentioned it to my boss and he jokingly said, ‘No one does that. You can’t make your own knives.’ I slapped together an overly loud and dangerous homemade grinder, took a bar of steel and made my first knife that weekend.” Soon after, Adam quit his job and opened a shop.

From forging to finishing, the complete fabrication process takes Adam upwards of 20 hours. “Every single thing I make is individual and unique,” he says. Recent works reflect Adam’s fascination with art deco and the aesthetics of the 1920s, but it’s the personality of the materials that inspire him most. “A craftsman’s favorite part of a project might be the quaint little knot that tends to go unnoticed,” he explains. “The small area of the knife dedicated to the wood accentuates the wood’s best parts.”

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