Forjando I have been in love with knives since I was a kid. I used to steal my father's sharpening stone to sharpen my own knives.  At the age of thirteen I started to remodel the ones I had, changing handles, reshaping blades, and making sheaths. I got my first order when I was fourteen and since that time I have never stopped.

Actually, I am proud to say I have never had any other job but making knives. In 1995, while attending the Metallurgical Engineering graduation course, I decided to go full time on the business. I quit college and decided to go after my dream. I thank the day I have decided to become a bladesmith. As by this time I used to live in an apartment, noise and dust became a serious problem so I decided to set up a little shop inside my closet where I made knives for several years.

 

I have started through stock removal but today I am exclusively dedicated to forging In November 2001 I had the opportunity to attend the first workshop conducted by Jerry Fisk and that was a divisor mark in my professional life and in Brazilian cutlery market as a whole.

In this occasion the Brazilian Bladesmiths Society was founded in which I had the honor to be nominated vice-president.

I have had the privilege to have my work published in the best related magazines of the world such as Blade, Knives Illustrated and La Passion des Cuteux.

I favor 52100 and my pattern welded steel for my blades, also favoring integral models. I enjoy too forging axes, swords, spears and all classical cutlery.

I have also earned the ABS Journeyman Smith stamp in the 2006 Blade Show in Atlanta and won the prestigious Peck Award, having for the first time in history two knives selected for the finals, those being the best and the second best knives submited.

Rodrigo Menezes Sfreddo

  • Primeira faca vendida em 1987
  • Início da carreira profissional como cuteleiro em 1997
  • Vice-presidente da Sociedade Brasileira dos Cuteleiros na sua fundação em 2001
  • Membro da American Bladesmith Society em 2002
  • Matéria nas revistas: Knives Illustrated abril 2003, Blade abril 2003 e novembro de 2006, La Passion des Couteaux janeiro 2003, Expansão abril 2004,jornal O Diário 9 de julho 2004.
  • Diretor técnico da Sociedade Brasileira dos Cuteleiros em 2003
  • Prêmio de melhor faca no São Paulo Knife Show 2003
  • Prêmio de melhor faca no Salão de Cutelaria de Brasília 2006
  • Prêmio melhor do show no São Paulo Knife Show 2006
  • Certificado como Journeyman Smith Pela American Bladesmith Society em 2006
  • Prêmio George Peck de melhor faca submetida para teste para Journeyman Smith em 2006
  • Shows: São Paulo knife Show 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
  • Salão de cutelaria de Brasília 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
  • Blade Show 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
  • Arkansas Custon Knife Show 2006
  • Mostra Internacional de Cutelaria de Itaipava 2005
  • Primeiro Festival da Faca campeira, 2005, 2006