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JEFFREY McCULLOUGH
Age:
Lives in: 6t. /ucie &ounty
Occupation: 1uclear security
analyst with Florida 3ower
/ight &o.
Family: Wife, Brenda two
daughters -ennifer and -essica
four grandchildren
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Education: Fort 3ierce &entral
+igh 6chool
Hobbies: Woodworking
Who inspires me: ´0y father died in 11 of leukemia. ,
loved my father. +e was always the voice of reason. +e supported
each of his children, no matter what they were doing.µ
Something that most people don’t know about me: ´They
don·t know that , have been making handcrafted knives
since , was a young teenager.µ
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+e starts with a slab of carbon steel and works to shape it
then there is the heat treating process in the forge before the
metal is hammered on the anvil. 6ome of his tools are what
blacksmiths used years ago to form obMects from metal. /astly,
he chooses a material for the handle, often a piece of deer
antler or a nice piece of beautifully grained wood. Always on
the lookout for good handle material, 0c&ullough freTuents
flea markets, garage sales and thrift stores.
&hef knives, Bowie knives, hunting knives of various sizes
and daggers, he creates them all. +e does some custom orders.
+is favorite, he said, is a more rusticlooking knife with
a blade that is still colored from the forge and antler for the
handle.
´, have a thing for the frontier look,µ he said, ´the cowboy
look. 6o , use a lot of antler and a lot of wood. They have a
more rustic look. 8p in *eorgia, there·s a market for that type
of knife, so , make a lot of them.µ
6elling them over the internet, making them as gifts or
selling them to friends, 0c&ullough stays busy working in
his little shop. 1oting that he was in his shop every once in >>