L.A. bladesmith Nicholas Berkofsky, who lost his home in the Eaton fire, demonstrates the power of hand-forged tools.

Together, we made 5 hand forged knives each called a Kiridashi. Each Knife is made from a piece of recycled leaf spring that was salvaged from the local swap meet here in Joshua Tree, CA.

A nicely made knife is both an object of beauty and a ... resembling a deck of cards, which is hand-forged and manipulated to create the blade itself. “I like it when the process is visible ...