Smoky Mountain Knife Works is in SEVIERVILLE, on Highway 66 — a 108,000-plus-square-foot showroom defending its 'world's largest knife store' claim, founded in Pigeon Forge in 1978 by Kevin Pipes, who started out dealing in relics and Native American artifacts. The current showroom opened in March 1991. The 2026 guided tour at the top of this page, walked with a longtime staffer, is the anchor: movie-prop knives and swords, blades flown to the moon, and the old National Knife Museum space.

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The WORLD'S LARGEST Knife Store | Smoky Mountain Knife Works Full Tour | Sevierville, TN

Adventure Is Out There

Adventure Is Out There's 2026 guided tour of Smoky Mountain Knife Works in Sevierville, walked with a longtime staffer. He traces the store from its 1978 founding in Pigeon Forge — founder Kevin Pipes started out dealing in relics and Native American artifacts — through the move to Sevierville and the current Highway 66 showroom, which opened in March 1991 and has grown past 108,000 square feet to defend its 'world's largest knife store' claim. The bond with Case Knives dates to the 1982 Knoxville World's Fair, and the tour passes movie-prop knives and swords, blades flown to the moon, and the old National Knife Museum space.

Key takeaways
  • Founded 1978 in Pigeon Forge by Kevin Pipes, a relics dealer first
  • Moved to Sevierville; current Highway 66 showroom opened March 1991
  • Showroom now tops 108,000 sq ft — the 'world's largest knife store'

Smokey Mountain Knife Works - Knife Lovers Wonderland

The Carpetbagger

The Carpetbagger's 2018 wander through Smoky Mountain Knife Works in Sevierville, when the National Knife Museum was still integrated into the store. He roams the winding aisles past taxidermy (including a grizzly holding a giant Swiss Army knife), a creek running through the building, dinosaur teeth, bayonets and replica swords from film and fantasy — all under the store motto, 'If it cuts, we carry it.'

Key takeaways
  • The National Knife Museum was integrated into the store in this 2018 visit
  • A creek runs through the building, past taxidermy and oversized novelty knives
  • Replica swords from film and fantasy share aisles with working blades

The Famous SMOKY MOUNTAIN KNIFE WORKS.

Vacation Station TV.

Vacation Station TV's 2020 look at Smoky Mountain Knife Works in Sevierville, billed as the largest knife and gun store anywhere, with far more than blades inside. Filmed and narrated in English; only an Arabic auto-translated caption track was available — and that track is corrupt and repetitive — so it is cataloged here as watch content.

If it cuts, we carry it

The store motto frames The Carpetbagger's 2018 wander: winding aisles past taxidermy (a grizzly holding a giant Swiss Army knife), a creek running through the building, dinosaur teeth, bayonets and replica swords from film and fantasy. In 2018 the National Knife Museum was still integrated into the store. The bond with Case Knives dates to the 1982 Knoxville World's Fair, per the guided tour.

The Relic Room

Inside the store is an antiques shop where the museum pieces are actually for sale: Civil War-era cigars and artifacts, fish fossils 48 to 53 million years old, a 1940s Tibetan temple bell, a World War II war-bond poster — most priced in the tens of dollars. Yankee in the South tour it twice; the store's animatronic creature band performs nearby and stars in their Christmas visit.

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Smoky Mountain Knife Works

Yankee in the South

Yankee in the South's 2018 walkthrough of Smoky Mountain Knife Works in Sevierville, an early visit to the sprawling Highway 66 showroom. Filmed and narrated in English; only a garbled Spanish auto-translated caption track was available, so it is cataloged here as watch content.

The Relic Room At The Smoky Mountain Knife Works

Yankee in the South

Yankee in the South duck into the Relic Room, the antiques shop inside Smoky Mountain Knife Works in Sevierville, where the museum pieces are actually for sale: Civil War-era cigars and artifacts, fish fossils 48 to 53 million years old, a 1940s Tibetan temple bell, a World War II war-bond poster and vintage toys, most priced in the tens of dollars. The store's animatronic creature band performs nearby.

Key takeaways
  • The Relic Room sells antiques inside the knife store — museum pieces with price tags
  • Civil War artifacts, 48-53 million-year-old fish fossils, WWII posters
  • Most items priced in the tens of dollars

Christmas Visit to Smoky Mountain Knife Works / Animatronic Band / Relic Room Yankee in the South

Yankee in the South

Yankee in the South's Christmas-season visit to Smoky Mountain Knife Works in Sevierville, taking in the animatronic band's holiday set and the Relic Room's antiques dressed for the season.

The honest tail

Several later films here are watch content — a multi-stop Sevierville day that finishes at the store, a free-things-to-do roundup, a pizza pairing — cataloged as what they are. The store is the back half of those days, which is exactly how most visitors actually experience it.

Sources: the 9 videos on this page, filmed at Smoky Mountain Knife Works in Sevierville between 2018 and 2026.

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3 videos · summaries from the actual guides

Casey's Pizza is it any good ? / Smoky Mountain Knife Works walkaround and Animatronic Christmas

Yankee in the South

A Yankee in the South Sevierville day out that pairs a walkaround of Smoky Mountain Knife Works — Christmas animatronics included — with a pizza stop at Casey's; the Knife Works is the back half of the outing.

Smoky Mountain Knife Works Russell Stover's, Bass Pro Shops Complete Review Free Things To Do! 2021

Yankee in the South

Yankee in the South's 2021 free-things-to-do roundup gives Smoky Mountain Knife Works a complete walkaround alongside stops at Russell Stover and Bass Pro Shops in Sevierville.

Frizzle Chicken Cafe - Jurrassic Boat Ride - Smoky Mountain Knife Works - Pigeon Forge Animatronics!

The Carpetbagger

A Carpetbagger Pigeon Forge animatronics day — Frizzle Chicken Cafe and the Jurassic Jungle Boat Ride — that finishes inside Smoky Mountain Knife Works in Sevierville among the knives, swords and taxidermy.

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