Knife maker Rick Hinderer: How a gift for a friend led to an obsession with craft

Knife maker Rick Hinderer: How a gift for a friend led to an obsession with craft

Before Rick Hinderer was a knife maker, he was a horseman.He worked with horses while attending a small high school in a small town in Ohio. After graduating, he attended Ohio State University’s Agricultural Technical Institute to study horse training and farriery. “I figured getting a degree would give me a better shot at working with top-tier farms,” he told me.'I wanted to give a buddy of mine a knife when he retired from the military. Didn’t…