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Hi! I'm Felicia!

I'm 21 and I've been making knives professionally since 2020!

I was homeschooled and have 4 older brothers, so the shop has always been a place I've felt quite comfortable in.

I've been doing everything from pyrography to making bows from sticks since I was about twelve, so knives weren't a far cry from the norm.  

I got into knife making because it was in front of me and God took it and ran! 

I started my first knife when I was 15 but found I just didn't have the right equipment to do it justice, so like any 15 year old girl I ran to mom and dad who, as objectively the most supportive parents on the planet, bought me my very first grinder.

After I finished my first sorry attempt at a knife mom saw something I apparently did not; potential.  

After some discussion to the effect of you'll never know if you don't give it a shot, she sent out some emails to some local knife makers and shortly afterwards we made our first visit to Helton Forge. 

Let me just say I had a blast.

After a few visits Mr. Helton seemed to think I had enough potential to warrant further interest and in turn hired me as an apprentice.   

While under his instruction I had the opportunity to take the basic knife course at North East Tech in Pryor, Oklahoma and its only gotten crazier from there!



1st of January, 2022

I launched my company Scissortail Bladeworks

since then I have personally made well over 200 knives,

which may sound small to some but to me its been wild! 

Learning how to run a business has been quite the adventure,

I quickly found I don't have the skills or the patience to do it all myself, and for the sake of my sanity hired my lovely sister-in-law Hannah as my media administrator.

...but even that wasn't enough after my debut on 

History Channel's Forged in Fire 

and so I began outsourcing my leather work to none other than master seamstress Anastasia Howard ..aka Mom.

When Forged in Fire put out their casting call for season 9 I put in for an application but after receiving it I concluded I was not equal to the task. When I failed to turn my application back in the assistant casting director had some questions and after speaking with him over the phone it would seem he drew a different conclusion.



In June of 2022 I was featured on Forged in Fire season 9 Episode 12 

alongside two incredible other smiths and by God's grace I was afforded the title of youngest female champion! 

Publications on prominent media pages, magazines, and two separate local news stations, have been just a few of the amazing opportunities God has given me through my appearance on Forged in Fire and my business has grown by leaps and bounds because of them! 

I could never do what I do today without the people who constantly lift me up and support me when I find myself incapable of handling it all. I owe so much to the people in my life who are always there, no matter how badly I screw up. 

You know who you are and if I called you all out by name the list would go on forever. 

I have been, and am continually blessed by a God so overwhelmingly loving I have no words!

I cannot wait to see what God has in store for little me!

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