These handmade knives were very popular, with then catalog retailer Abercrombie & Fitch requesting more of these knives from Gerber to sell in their catalog in 1939.

Mr. Bosket was to be sentenced for stabbing a prison guard with a handmade knife last April at the Shawangunk Correctional Facility.

Gjerstad was famous for its beautiful handmade knives and the coat-of-arms recognizes this heritage.

A month ago, 66 officers and inmates were injured when dozens of Muslim prisoners stormed the cell of a man they said slashed their Imam, or religious leader, across the face with a handmade knife.

Late last month, a corrections officer at Bayside, Frederick Baker, died after a prisoner stabbed him with a handmade knife.

The production version of the CQC7 is not a handmade knife and features no bolsters or micarta in the handle construction.

Let us hazard that you do not need or want a best-known, maybe best handmade knife in the world.

An inmate wielding a handmade knife fatally stabbed a prison guard in the back this morning at Bayside State Prison in Cumberland County, corrections officials said.

In the earlier incident, a young inmate attacked another one with a handmade knife, Mr. Antenen said.

Recently laid off after 20 years at a roadside service station, he tries to earn a living by selling handmade knives, which are more often admired than purchased.