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Prep Talk
years ago, around the time that Aric Geesaman’s third child was due to be born, the amateur bladesmith, was partly practical, as he and his wife calculated the prohibitive cost of day care for their growing family. But forging high-carbon steel into beautiful instruments of slicing and dicing also has sentimental value for the McCordsville maker, who uses found wood from Indy Urban Hardwood to sculpt the polished handles favored by some of Indy’s top chefs. “Growing up, my family liked to go camping and fishing, and those were times when I realized the importance of always having a good knife,” says Geesaman. He still has old knives passed down from his grandparents—pocketknives, a kitchen knife, a small butcher knife.
