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About Fiddleback Forge

I'm Andy Roy, and I started Fiddleback Forge Knives in my garage in 2007. The knife making bug bit me after making a few simple knives from files and old hickory knives I'd cut up. At the time I was an engineer working in an antenna design company. Knives are so much more interesting to me than electronics and before long, I had followed my passion into a business. I started out part time, and then in May of 2009 I was laid off and dedicated myself to being a full time knife maker. I started out making six a week in my basement (we had moved). I don't know if it was myself or my wife who was more surprised when a few months in, we were still making ends meet.

Knives turned out to be the right direction for me and Fiddleback Forge, with your help and support, is growing. We now make our knives in a separate facility in Cumming, GA, churning out over 30 knives per week with two employees and an apprentice helping us to finish the work.

Handles and grinds are the focus of my knives. I am a toolmaker, and strive to make a real cutting tool that is comfortable to use. The grind I like to put on knives (I still do all the bevel grinding) is the convex grind. I fell in love with convexed knives from the Himilayan Imports khukuri. I like the strength of the convex knife, and I find them the easiest to maintain. This is especially true in the field, certainly sandpaper is easier to carry, and less likely to break. The other aspect of my knives that make them special is the handle. I shape each handle with grinders and files, and try to make each handle comfortable to use, and naturally indexed in the hand. I always liked carving walking sticks, back in the Boy Scouts, and I think the shaping still appeals to me on that level. I think for a long time, the comfortable handles sold the knives, while I worked out exactly how to make the convex grind look as good as some of the other grinds. As a knife maker, I strive to make the handles more comfortable, and the grinds cleaner with every batch.

(from the Fiddleback Forge website)