Where the Metal Takes You: Get to Know Kaila Cumings Media
Published: 1 year ago
Unlike many modern knifemakers, Kaila Cumings is decidedly old school in her approach. She designs in real time at the forge and anvil. There’s no computer aided design (CAD) nor highly-detailed sketches; just an idea, a hammer, and red-hot steel.
“I’ll have the idea in my head and I just go straight to the forge and shape it out,” Kaila says. “I see where the metal takes me. Sometimes it turns out exactly how I wanted, other times it’s completely different but will end up being 10 times better. When I try to force something, that’s when it doesn’t work.”
“But,” she adds, “there’s no such thing as a broken knife, only a smaller blade.”
Read more on the CRKT blog: https://www.crkt.com/community/knife-stories/where-the-metal-takes-you-get-to-know-kaila-cumings
Check out Kaila's Bugsy™ fixed blade knives - her first collaboration with CRTK:
https://www.crkt.com/knife/bugsy-fixed-blade-with-sheath
“I’ll have the idea in my head and I just go straight to the forge and shape it out,” Kaila says. “I see where the metal takes me. Sometimes it turns out exactly how I wanted, other times it’s completely different but will end up being 10 times better. When I try to force something, that’s when it doesn’t work.”
“But,” she adds, “there’s no such thing as a broken knife, only a smaller blade.”
Read more on the CRKT blog: https://www.crkt.com/community/knife-stories/where-the-metal-takes-you-get-to-know-kaila-cumings
Check out Kaila's Bugsy™ fixed blade knives - her first collaboration with CRTK:
https://www.crkt.com/knife/bugsy-fixed-blade-with-sheath