Stuart Ackerman

I was fortunate to grow up in an environment when knives were not regarded as evil...the golden age has passed, never to return...

I started making knives in 1975, as age fifteen...
I took a hunk of 12mm thick steel, about 40mm wide, that was in my Dad's garage.............and made an integral knife, after a longgggg time filing with a second cut file, ( the only one that my father would let me have)

One Sunday afternoon, I finished my very first knife... ...