- July 24, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Retiring usually leads to new hobbies. For Joey Lynn, forging knives became his hobby after retiring from the Department of Corrections. Lynn didn’t start with much saying, “found me a piece of railroad track, turned it into an anvil, took an old bar-b-que grill and a frying pan. I actually went to Wal-Mart and bought a brand new frying pan and destroyed it to make a fire pan for my forge”.
He forged his first knife in 2017, picked it up as a hobby for 6 months, then appeared on the History Channel’s Forged in Fire Rookie episode to start off 2018. Lynn added, “I wasn’t scared. I wasn’t first, but I wasn’t last”.
Appearing on the show gave Joey the credentials he needed to start his own business offering knife forging classes. “That’s coming in, you forge your blade, twist it, you help finish it, you leave with a finished knife. I means it’s sharp when leave, it’s a perfectly usable knife”. 800 happy…
