How can you have a list of helpful knifemaking books and this not be number 1? Dr. Larrin Thomas did an excellent job pulling together a lot of information about knives and putting it all in one place.
Not much of a better way to say it than this!
“This book is truly an incredible feat. No other work I’ve run across is this ambitious or expansive. The drama of the personalities of different knifemakers will draw everyone in. The cumulative history is what makes it unique, and in my opinion, groundbreaking. There’s a good mix of it all, and it follows a clean path through the timeline.”
-Knifemaker Matthew Gregory
It is always great to see what the trends are in the knife world as well as some awesome knives! This 44th edition is a special one to me because it has the first knife ever published in it that I made! Look in the middle on page 139.