BladeSports International, Inc., is a Texas non-profit corporation formed to promote knife safety, provide workshops and cutting events for its members, and to inform and educate the public with regard to the safe use of a knife as a tool.

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Always use care when handling knives and never attempt competitive cutting practice without proper training and supervision.

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As a new knife maker (read youngster), my goal, like many others, is to make the ultimate all-around camp knife. I know I have so much to learn. There are several places that I look for lessons in improving my knife making. One of them is cutting competitions.

During a cutting competition I can receive direct feedback from the knife. I can truly tell performance of the blade, while it is in my hand working. Will a handle design work? How comfortable is it during hard use or subtle wrist flicks? Will my heat treatment create a durable blade? Will my blade chip or crack? Will my edge hold during hard chops and stay sharp enough to make subtle cuts after heavy work? Will a recurve or a flat edge or a convex edge profile work better for one cut or another? Is my blade heavy enough? Is it too heavy, will I tire out; is it to light, will not penetrate? These questions, and many more, even the ones I have not thought task will
come up. The proof is in the pudding, as they say. Click Here For More...