Meet the Maker ~ Jerry McClure
Jerry’s career in knife making began in 1965 after learning to forge steel while in a high school welding class. Knife making was a casual hobby before Jerry became a professional Bladesmith in the late 80’s. He has always been in the metal working business as a welder, mechanic, and professional body man building high end steel rods.
He is a voting member of the Knife Makers Guild, Professional Knife Makers Association, a Charter Member of the Texas Knife Makers and Collectors Association and the Knife Group Association of Oklahoma.
Using simple, as well as state of the art materials, Jerry makes fixed and folding load design knives.
He uses the liner lock system and his own jeweled pivot system on his specialty: the gentleman's folding knives. Many of my fixed blade knives are hand-forged, one of a kind Damascus blades which are my original design and will not be duplicated. I use a variety of steel in the construction of my knives such as hi carbon, stainless, my own patterns of welded Damascus as well as several other knife maker's Damascus knives.
The canoe, one of the many folding knives created by Jerry’s own jeweled pivot system.
