ABOUT ME

I have been a certified general machinist for 25 years, and have been employed by an industrial knife manufacturing and custom machine shop for the past 20 years. I am an avid outdoor sportsman and have hunted and fished for the past 35 years. I particularly enjoy bowhunting for whitetail deer. I am involved as a committee member of the National Wild Turkey Federation - Boss Gobblers of Brant/Oxford Chapter.

THE BEGINNING

Working in the industrial knife industry I realized there were better materials available for knives than what you could get in a production product so I decided to make my first hunting knife. It was a copy of a Russel belt knife, made from 01 tool steel. After that knife was completed I knew it wouldn't be my last and have been at it for the last 12 years.

PROCESS

My knives are made by both stock removal and forging methods using the highest quality materials. They are hand ground and are hand sanded to as high as 2500 grit wet and dry paper.

My blades are heat treated to 58-60 rc. I use a variety of exotic hardwoods, bone, horn and antler for handle materials. My personal favourite is Curly Maple, stained, and finished with hand rubbed double boiled linseed oil. I make all of my own knife cases using the best 8-9 oz. Vegetable tanned leather shoulders available. All cases have a welt to protect stitching and are wet molded to the knife for which it was made. Embellishments such as hand tooling or snake skin inlays are also available. I have just completed a 42 ton forge welding press & a 4 Burner gas forge and am in the process of building a 75 lb. Air hammer to be completed sometime this summer.

KNIFE PREFERENCES

I am currently producing hunting, fishing, Bowie, utility and chef knives. I work with 440c, S30Vand S60V stainless steels, D2 high carbon high chrome steeel and am forging 5160 , 1095 and 01/L6 damascus carbon steels.