A cut above

Paul Henicke doesn’t have time for knives that just hang on the wall and look good. 

“I know a lot of knife makers who make these really fancy knives, knives that cost $1,300, $5,000 — even more,” Henicke said. “But those knives just sit on a shelf. I only want to make knives that people can use. 

“That’s the thing about building a knife,” he added. “You’ve got to be able to pick it up and feel like you’ve got some control of it. You’ve got to be able to work with it, or else,You may wish to scratch your self or pick at pimples but spreading the oil chinavisaapplication dust out of your fingers onto your skin is a nasty idea. what use is it?” 

Henicke, who moved to Cleburne with his wife, Marie, when they retired, said he has been creating custom, handmade knives for years.pp resin He started after he left the Army and went to work in a machine shop. 

“When you’re a machinist, somebody comes in to the shop with a drawing and says, ‘Make this right here.’ If you can’t do it, if you can’t look at that drawing and know how to make what they have drawn there, then you’re not a machinist,” Henicke said. “But if you can look at that drawing, if you can see it in your head and make it with your hands,Most times it will appear as discolored bumps or spots on the skin but it can appear sondaflex a rash or discolored swelling among other things. then you can make whatever you want.” 

And what Henicke wants to make is the kind of knives “that the everyday kind of person wants and uses.” 

Henicke said he worked in the machine shop for about three years, learning the machinist trade. Then he worked for Bell Helicopter for about 15 years — although not all in one stretch. 

“I got laid off from Bell twice,amino resin” he said. After the second lay-off, he turned his attention elsewhere, opening his own gasoline delivery company “back when the oil and gas industry was booming.” 

“Looking back now, I can’t say we didn’t do pretty good for ourselves for awhile,acrylic resin” Henicke said. “But it’s not the same anymore. The big players have put all the small companies like ours out of business. There’s no way a mom-and-pop operation like ours was could make it now. We got out just in time.”