Founder Les de Asis, a native of Oakland, California, was just shy of 30 years old when he started hand-making custom knives in 1979. But not just any kind of knives. De Asis specialized in bali-songs ...

Even if Gerber did release a giant one for backcountry use a few years back, the butterfly knife (aka bali-song ... scimitar blades were only available as options for the custom Bali-Song.” As these ...

More than 80 exhibitors, including a number of Maryland makers of custom knives, will have exhibits of surprisingly diverse cutting tools for sale. Another dozen exhibitors will show off ...

However, due to the stigma around butterfly knives ... To support dozens of alloys in various knives and thousands of permutations of custom builds, factory workers have become masters of ...

The Portland area is also home to small shops and renowned custom designers ... was simply to build a better version of the “butterfly” knives he’d played with as a kid.

Behind the roll-up garage doors, there are various businesses, one of which is Corey Dunlap Custom Knives & Sharpening. The exterior of the space is very unassuming. Enter, however, and impressive ...

A conservative panel of federal judges ruled Monday that a 30-year ban on butterfly knives in Hawaii is unconstitutional under the U.S. Supreme Court’s new “history and tradition” standard ...