Chris Green of Black Cat Metal is a bladesmith bringing new life into one of the world’s oldest trades by forging custom knives and teaching his trade to those willing to learn.

Chris is Calgary based bladesmith, and a functional artist, who was inspired to start forging knives after watching "Conan the Barbarian". Chris wasn’t always a smith, he spent over ten years studying archaeology. He even went as far as to achieve his masters degree in the field.

One Sunday morning all of that changed. As he was flipping through the channels on tv, epic music caught his attention, and Conan began. You can just imagine the scene; it was dark, there was fire and sparks, a hammer, an anvil, and then Conan's dad appears to talk about the riddle of steel! By Crom he was hooked!