Sometimes, the best blades come from the most unexpected materials. In this video, I take an old, unprepared piece of steel and transform it into a fully functional knife. No fancy billets or pre-cut ...

The knife passes into the hands of another series of robots, which use grinding wheels to narrow down the thickish blank into the tapered contour of a blade.

Brookfield-based knife sharpener Alena Joling traveled to the oldest knifemaking factory in the world to craft her first blade by hand.