Fire, steel and patience shape his age-old craft

Sharp edge: Fauzi is refining the blade of a knife he forged at his workshop in Kampung Hutan Pasir, Ketereh in Kelantan. — Bernama

KOTA BARU: Smoke curls from glowing embers as Fauzi Yusoff grasps his hammer. His movements are slow, deliberate, as if syncing with the heartbeat of a craft that breathes through fire and steel.

This is the daily ritual of the former headmaster who has never stopped breathing life into the ‘pisau jam’, a traditional Kelantan Malay knife which is now a mere name to the young generation.