When folks ask me how I got into making knives I tell them "I think I watched "Conan" too many times when I was a kid". That opening scene where the father is beating on hot steel just stayed with me for years. I always loved knives when I was younger and had several knives and swords through the years. I played with tearing down old bayonets and making knives from stock blades. In 2000 I ground my first knife blade from a file. Since then that’s all I’ve wanted to do.

I started with stock removal knives using simple tools, reading Blade Magazine and any books I could get my hands on. I began acquiring tools bit by bit and began making myself a true knife shop but, even while gaining better tools my main goal was to make sure every step was done the best I could possibly do, one knife at a time, making a reliable working tool with a good look and feel. Once I felt fairly comfortable with that I moved on to hot work. In 2002 I started forging hot steel and learned how to make damascus with the help of several other makers. I'm now a member of the ABS and have the forging bug worse than ever, though I do still do some stock removal pieces. I enjoy doing a variety of pieces from damascus daggers and tomahawks to traditional bowies and art pieces.

I'm also fortunate enough to have a live-in sheath maker on the farm. My wife Tess has sewn all her life and I convinced her she should make sheaths for me when I started this little journey. I don't think she realized what she was getting into. Now she has her own workshop and order board. She uses a variety of leathers and exotic skins, hand stitching and fitting each sheath individually. We pride ourselves greatly on doing everything "in-house" and by hand. We design our knives/sheaths here, do our own heat-treating, make our damascus steels, etc. Much of what we do is custom work, mostly fixed blade hunter/skinner models, historical replicas and EDC knives. We had our first child in the spring of ‘03 (Danny). Maybe he'll have an interest in scrimshaw or engraving....lol.

We began working full-time on the knives/sheaths in 2003. Tess, myself and our son live on a small homestead-style farm in the mountains of north-east Pennsylvania. If you’re in the area, stop by, if not, check out our web site and let us know what you think, we'd love to hear from you.