Stan Shaw (1926-2021): A Tribute By Geoffrey Tweedale Stan Shaw – Sheffield’s pre-eminent knife maker – died on the 26th of February at his home at Deepcar, near Sheffield. He was 94. I first met him in 1986, shortly after he had become a self-employed cutler. I walked unannounced into his workshop in one of Sheffield’s backstreets. The workshop was cramped; it had bare brick walls and a stone floor; a makeshift forge (with an old vacuum cleaner rigged up … Continue reading Stan Shaw (1926-2021): A Tribute By Geoffrey Tweedale