My Knife Making Hobby

I started making knives in high school with a buddy of mine whose dad let us mess with his forge. In college, I bought my own equipment and took a summer and tried to be self employed making knives. (It was a very fun summer but not very profitable.) Once I started going to friends’ weddings, I made it a tradition to give them a knife, and that has kept me at it ever since. I’ve probably made over 50 knives and don’t have pictures of them all.

This graphic shows how I heat treat them.

An old guy from my church had me make a knife out of a buffalo bone. This was one of my first commissions back when I was still in college.

Here’s a picture of me at my coal forge.

Eventually I wanted a gas forge, and made my own from an old helium tank.

The truck I use for street evangelization started out as my traveling blacksmith shop. I still use it for that purpose from time to time.

Here’s a few more knives:

Here are a few I made in the summer of 2025.

I think I made these ones in 2024