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Dawson Knives produces handcrafted fixed blade knives in Prescott Valley, Arizona, operating from a 12,000-square-foot facility that opened in 2023 with dedicated CNC machining and hand-crafting areas. The company was founded in 1973 by Barry Dawson, beginning operations in a storage unit in Texas before relocating to Arizona over subsequent decades. Production now spans three generations of the Dawson family working together at the Prescott Valley shop, with each knife designed and crafted domestically using both precision CNC machining and traditional handcraft techniques. The company’s long history and multi-generational structure make it one of the older continuously operating custom knife makers in the United States.
