Hand Blades.
Made by hand in Wilmington, Norh Carolina. I'm Michael Hand. I make knives meant to be used-sharp, balanced and built to last.
I don't have a factory or a big operation. I have a little shop at home, a few good tools, and a lot of time spent figuring out what makes a knife worth keeping.
A good knife should be something you can depend on when you need it most.
Classic design
These knives aren’t built to sit behind glass. They’re built for the camp, the kitchen, the field — anywhere the work is real. Solid steel, clean lines, no nonsense. The kind of blade you reach for without thinking twice.
My Story
It started with an Old Timer pocket knife — a gift from my grandfather when I was 13. I didn’t know it then, but that simple gesture planted a seed that would eventually consume my spare time, my backyard, and more than a few lawnmower blades.
When the world shut down in 2020, I found myself restless and looking for a real challenge. Like a lot of people, I’d been watching Forged in Fire, and somewhere between episodes I stopped thinking “that’s impressive” and started thinking “I could try that.” So I did — with zero experience, an angle grinder, a hammer, and a salvaged lawnmower blade. My first forge was a backyard fire pit with a hair dryer duct-taped to it for airflow. It was scrappy, it was loud, and it absolutely worked.
That first knife wasn’t pretty. But it was mine — shaped by hand from raw steel — and that feeling was impossible to walk away from.
Since then, I’ve made plenty of mistakes.
Blades that cracked during quench. Handles that weren’t balanced. Grinds that humbled me. But every failure taught me something, and over time, the knives got better. The process got cleaner. The passion only deepened.
Now I want to share them with you.
My first knife.
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