For most people on the planet, buying a new Bob Kramer knife is a pipe dream. Owned by esteemed chefs and food moguls like Thomas Keller, Charlie Palmer and Andrew Zimmern, Kramer’s waitlist for ...

Owning a Bob Kramer knife is a status symbol. Just ask culinary giants like Thomas Keller, Charlie Palmer and Andrew Zimmern. Kramer’s knives sell at auctions for tens of thousands of dollars, and ...

For years, a few privileged cooks have joined a waiting list to spend thousands of dollars for the carbon steel knives Bob Kramer makes by hand at his forge in Olympia, Wash. Two weeks ago the ...

WHEN BLADESMITH Bob Kramer put the “The Last Salmon,” a handmade 10.5-inch chef’s knife, up for auction on his website recently, the bidding went the way these things usually do. Within the first half ...