Some people get the call to make knives later in life, or situate it as a side hustle for years before fully committing – but not Carley Perkins, founder and one-woman show at up-and-coming shop Darlington Edgecraft.
“I actually went down the rabbit hole in high school,” she tells us. “I would watch people making knives on YouTube, and I was like: I want to do that!” After high school, Perkins laid out the roadmap for what would eventually become Darlington. She went to school to become a welder, working with metal in a different way, as she saved up the cash for her first step into the knife world: an apprenticeship under Andy Roy of Fiddleback Forge.
Kyle Daily and Dan Eastland are just two of many other makers who have gone through Andy’s apprenticeship program. It has been quite successful.
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Shop Talk: Darlington Edgecraft on Welding, Womanhood, & Knife Nerdery