About Leon

I am a blacksmith and bladesmith located in Norwalk, CT. My focus is on high-end kitchen knives and tools, but I’ve worked on a wide variety of projects ranging from swords and axes to candlesticks and coat hooks. I founded and currently run the blacksmithing program at the Silvermine Arts Center in New Canaan. I’ve studied blacksmithing with Marsha Trattner (She-Weld), bladesmithing with Mace Vitale, and sword making with Matt Parkinson, among many others, and I’ve appeared on the History Channel show Forged in Fire.