We take old wood products that have been through hell & back and apply some love to them making them a "New Creation" giving them"New Life" as Christ does.
My wife's grandfather always said that poor people can't afford to buy cheap things. I have a lot of knives to work on. I'll get out there first thing in the morning and start grinding away. That's one of the things I love about my job. There's no schedule per se that's. . . I know I have things to work on and things that need done. It's a blessing to know I always have work. It starts out as just a raw bar of steel. Each one is hand-ground. It's all by feel and by sight. All the handles are hand-cut and glued and pinned one at a time. I actually started out making knives and needed something to put the knives in. That's where the leather work started. I learned on my own and I just wanted to make more useful things. Things that would last. I'd say a handmade knife is always better just for the fact that the maker puts everything he has. Every quality that they look for in a good knife, that goes into every knife that comes out of the shop. Supporting local and handmade American-made, it's all so important. It's a waste of money to buy five of one thing for five dollars when you can get. . . Maybe pay a little bit more, but that one thing is going to last you for so much longer. Make the good investment up front and it's going to pay off. A lot of people love the story, the character that these things build over the years. I think that's another reason that they don't want to get rid of this stuff. Art in general can. . . I mean, you paint a sidewalk or something and it's going to catch somebody's eye. It'll make them smile, make them think. And to me, I think that's what art is all about, to just touch somebody's mind in a way that normally isn't. My name is Dustin Case and I'm wooden steel.
