The Storefront Cut's top floor is for "clean work": gluing handles to blades with maritime epoxy, light sanding, and, you know, selling $500 knives.

The Wuertz Nobody touches the TW90 grinder except Bukiewicz. It can do anything the shop's other two models can—and costs almost as much as both of them put together.

Knife Blanks Bukiewicz hand-cuts his blanks out of sheets of steel. He uses the AEB-L stainless shown here for his more modern shapes and 1095 carbon steel for some of his more old-school models.

1 // The Bader A knife's bevel—its shape in cross section—is one of its key characteristics. Bukiewicz used to bevel-grind only on Mondays and Tuesdays. To do it right he had to get so close to the belts that he'd take all the skin off his knuckles, then need a week to heal. Until he found this 60-plus-year-old Bader grinder on a scrap pile in Massachusetts and modded it. 2 // The Mod A magnetic shuttle holds the blade blanks while a stream of water cools them. The system lets Bukiewicz grind bevels faster, without pulping his hands.

The Shuttle Bukiewicz quantified each model's specific bevel using a series of shims and screws on the Bader grinder's shuttle. This transformed Cut's process from art to science..

Beaumont Metalworks Horizontal Grinder The horizontal grinder, which uses the same belts as the Bader and the TW90, handles precise finishing work that requires perfect, crisp lines.

The Belts Thousands of 2- by 72-inch abrasive belts hang throughout the shop's lower level. They're the grinders' teeth, how Bukiewicz shapes all of Cut Brooklyn's knives.

Epoxy Station Downstairs is for the dirty work. Upstairs, which also serves as Cut's retail storefront, is for the clean stuff: hand-sanding finishing work and gluing the scales onto the blades to create a handle. Bukiewicz prefers a marine epoxy that's designed to patch holes in boat hulls. Should be tough enough for your kitchen.

The Shop Cut's Brooklyn storefront is half workshop, half hangout. Customers can watch Bukiewicz work on knives while they ogle and demo the finished products.

Knives for Sale Bukiewicz makes five to eight knives a week. Once they're done, they go up on a magnetic strip in the shop and are officially for sale. They generally don't stay that way for long.

The Storefront If you're walking down Third Avenue in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn, you might pass by this storefront. Stop in; it's home to some of the coolest knives you'll ever see.