Anam Creations

Edition Six Feature
We interview: Jenna McElvogue
Location: Tasmania, Australia
Photo Credit: ©Jenna McElvogue @jennabuilds

Jenna McElvogue has turned her curiosity for tool making into a growing business selling handmade knives. With a strong focus on sustainability, Jenna salvages the materials to make her knives, diverting scrap metal from landfill to create tools to be passed down the generations.

What is it that you do and how do you do it?

Throughout the years, I’ve always been an artist and I’ve always loved to make things. That making has taken different forms, but for the past couple of years, it’s mainly been focusing on bladesmithing and blacksmithing. I make knives out of recycled and salvaged materials, and I also like to restore old tools.

How did it all begin then, this current line of making?

I started turning my making into a business about four years ago. But I didn’t start with knife making. I started out with silversmithing, which I thought was a good way to get into small-scale metal manipulation.

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