MetaFilter posts tagged with knife

Knife

vronsky — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:49:19 -0800

From whence the spork?

blahblahblah — Fri, 04 May 2007 13:43:43 -0800

Feeding Desire: The Tools of the Table [click on "visit the website"] is an amazing illustrated history of utensils over the past 600 years. If you prefer history to design, look at the California Academy of Science's collection and learn more of the history of the knife, fork, spoon (and more spoons!), and chopsticks. Not covered in these collections are the awesome cutlery/gun combinations of the 1700s, or how to identify the bewildering array of specialized silverware there is out there. Don't forget your bacon forks and cake breakers!.

Crooked Knives

tellurian — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:13:55 -0800

How to make a crooked knife via mo-co-ta-gan. The Museum of Woodworking Tools has a very fine example.

Not Your Ordinary Knife.

Balisong — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 00:11:27 -0800

Not Your Ordinary Knife. With the post about how nasty those sharp edges can be, I'l like to show you they can have beauty, too. (From here)

The most renowned knife in Alaska

debralee — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 12:16:33 -0800

Ulus have been around for thousands of years. Originally created by Inuit craftsmen as a practical cutting tool, the ulu has evolved and is still in use today as a handy implement in the kitchen. But two ulus in a shoebox doesn't get you far. (Real Player video)

How to Cut

turbodog — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 14:51:42 -0800

How to Cut illustrates proper knife techniques for a variety of vegetables. [Via Lifehacker]

It's no velociraptor, but...

Vidiot — Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:12:02 -0800

I *heart* Bea Arthur:

Bea Arthur sparked a security scare at Logan Airport in Boston this week when she tried to board a Cape Air flight with a pocketknife in her handbag. The "Golden Girls" star, now 81, was flagged by a Transportation Security Administration agent, who discovered the knife - a strict no-no following 9/11. "She started yelling that it wasn't hers and said 'The terrorists put it there,' " a fellow passenger said. "She kept yelling about the 'terrorists, the terrorists, the terrorists.' " After the blade was confiscated, Arthur took a keyring from her bag and told the agent it belonged to the "terrorists," before throwing it at them. As she boarded the plane, she told the TSA employees, "We're all doomed."

Kuro5hin offers a novel proposition: Bea for President!

Ezrael — Fri, 08 Jun 2001 01:47:00 -0800

Eight dead. Five of the dead were second-grade girls. The ages of the other victims were not known. I don't really have anything to add to that.

teradome — Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:51:42 -0800

An 18-inch dog swallows a 15-inch serrated knife and lives to, well, bark about it. Not the most compelling story on metafilter, but the x-ray photo is worth the trip (and they had no idea it was in there until they did the x-ray).