All Posts

Beginning a three-day research trip to Solingen in search of answers about the origins of the Sportmesser and German rivet knives. The Journey North I traveled from Munich to Solingen, Germany—the city long known as the “City of Blades”—to spend three days researching two longstanding questions that had been driving my work. The first was to determine just how old the Sportmesser really is. Böker has long stated that it has manufactured the Sportmesser continuously since 1869