The knife-spine grinding machine is used to shape the back of the blade. To do so, the knife maker guides the back of the blade along a rotating grinding...

The punching press, manufactured by Leinhaas in the 1980s is applied in the first steps of the blade production: it unwinds a coil of steel strip and punches...

The electric whetting trestle from the 1980s is used to further refine the cutting edge of the blade from the point of the knife to the bolster. The blade...

In traditional Solingen knife-making the blade is assembled with the handle by a person called “Reider”. He or she does this by hammering the knife...

In knife-making the “Schurbock” (Schuren: technical term in Solingen for polishing) made by Rema in the 1980s is used to polish the wooden knife handles....

The “slit machine”, made by Adam Baumüller GmbH in the 1990s, uses a circular saw to put the slits into the knife handles, into which the blades are...