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Corey Dunlap Knives is the work of Corey Dunlap, a Phoenix bladesmith whose career with blades spans more than two decades. Before he ever forged a knife, Dunlap trained at the Arizona Culinary Institute and cooked in high-end kitchens, then spent roughly a decade at a shop specializing in imported Japanese cutlery, where he sharpened tens of thousands of knives on traditional waterstones and built a reputation for precision and a real understanding of how a blade performs.
That sharpening background is the foundation of everything he makes. In 2017 he made his first knife under ABS Master Bladesmith Ray Rybar, fell hard for the craft, and made the leap to full-time knifemaking in 2022. A member of the American Bladesmith Society, he brings a sharpener's eye for geometry, metallurgy, and edge behavior to every blade, favoring timeless design over trend, clean lines, and natural handle materials.
Our current selection runs his Pocket EDC line, compact fixed blades in drop point, Wharncliffe, and reverse tanto profiles, all in blasted and tumbled AEB-L, the fine-grained razor steel a career sharpener would choose, covered in our knife steel guide. Handles show his eye for material: bog oak, black-dyed box elder burl, Richlite, linen and antique ivory micarta, even rattlesnake skin resin, each finished with contrasting pin work. His high-performance kitchen knives in the Japanese tradition land as the shop produces them, and either way a Corey Dunlap knife is meant to balance performance, durability, and artistry, equally at home in daily use or handed down as a future heirloom.
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