Corrado Moro – Italian Custom Knife Maker and Designer
At the age of 14 I attended professional school at my hometown (Rivoli, TO) in the field of precision engineering, achieving various specializations in mechanical processing. Soon after the school I began to work as a toolmaker, specializing in construction, installation and EDM machining for a large company near Torino. I have been employed in that same company for 23 years.
Aside the daily job, the experience accumulated over the years has led me to build a shop to develop other projects, improving and learning new technics.
In 2007, introduced to me by mutual friends, met the master knife maker Charlie Bennica, with whom I formed a strong friendship and began an exchange of ideas that continues today. He taught me a lot and some years after I decided to enter the world of knifemaking with a few new ideas.
In 2012 I have been invited at the ECCKS in New York and showed to the world my first knives. Immediately after returning to Italy, quit my job and became a full-time knife maker. Next year, at the same show, was the turn of one of my best-known knife: the Tourbillon.
From that moment onward I tried to design the best knives that I could. Some of them required years of development to see the light and some others are still only on paper, waiting for the right time.
During the last 10 years I presented some of my best work at the FicX, where the Vanquish was shown for the first time in 2016, or at the Solvang Show in California, where in 2018 I had on my table the first Skynet, with the closing eyelids.
The world of collectible knife excites me because I found in it the opportunity to express my imagination in the most pure and unrestrained way, both artistically and in terms of construction work, constantly trying to improve in every field, using all the techniques acquired over the years and studying the latest technology to make progress in every area.
I like to innovate and to think outside of the box, breaking the classic schemes, looking for new and different mechanical solutions, learning as much as possible both by the great masters and the new trends.
In the same way I try to include in my design some key elements that you can find in the everyday life, as well as in contemporary work of art. In each new model I try to express my personal style, taking inspiration from everything that surrounds me, from modern watchmaking and jewelry, as from aeronautics and the automotive world, especially the coolest supercars of this age.
I think my knives reflect the work experiences and my greatest passions.
When drawing a new knife I give free rein to my imagination, worrying as little as possible as I can make it happen. Then, stepping into the making phase, I try instead to be as close as possible to the project I have in mind, contriving any system that allows me to build it exactly the way I imagined, without taking shortcuts.
I am particularly proud of all my locking systems: especially the desmo-lock, the twin-lock (that has been used in many models), and the new gear-lock, that I used for the first time in the Huayra.
In the last months I made a new simple frame lock model, but the more complex stuff is calling back and 2026 will be the year of my first automatic knife, that will be presented in June at the Atlanta Blade Show.
Sometimes life distracts me from my passion, but as long as my brain works, I’ll find a way to make some bold new knife…
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