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Article: What the Heck?
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- Honolulu Star - Bulletin
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- June 22, 2008
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RICHARD WALKER / RWALKER@STARBULLETIN.COM
Ken Onion showed some of his knives at his Kaneohe workshop Friday. He is being inducted into Blade magazine's Cutlery Hall of Fame -- one of only nine members and, at 45, the youngest by 20 years.
Ken Onion's office is his Kaneohe garage. It looks like a normal garage workshop, if you don't count the high-end computer numeric-controlled milling machine and the array of custom-made knife prototypes.
Onion is the most famous knife designer in America. He came to Hawaii originally with the Marines, fell in love with a Chinese-Hawaiian hula dancer, wife Noel, and stayed.
In 1992, Onion was working at a refinery here when coworkers dropped an asphalt ...