My name is Aaron Lawvere, and I am the knife maker behind Lawvere & Son Knife Co. My family and I live in Arlington, Texas, and that is where my knives are made.

I started life in a rural village in the Appalachian mountains of Pennsylvania. Farming and the outdoors were what shaped me into a man that loves nature, appreciates hunting my own food, and is not shy of an honest days work. For the past 15 years I have been working full time within the Information Technology field.

Since I can remember I have been fabricating one thing or another, but it wasn’t until a jewelry apprenticeship after moved to Texas that I really fell in love with metal work.

My start in knife making was humbling and crude. Due to a lot of dissatisfaction with cheaper knives I was using, I wanted my cutlery and hunting knives to perform better, and I just couldn’t stomach the cost of buying everything I needed to settle the issue. So, instead of spending heaps of money on already made knives, I spent heaps of money on equipment slowly to make my own!

I’ve failed forward fast and adapted to the knife making trade quickly in order to produce quality knives. What started as an exploration into fashioning my own knives has turned into a deep passion for creating knives for others that are worthy of being heirlooms. My knives are working knives first, and are meant to be used. They’re meant to be useful, reliable, and above all, long lasting.

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The ‘Son’ behind the name.

I was blessed with one beautiful biological daughter, and three amazing step-children, two girls and one boy. In 2019, our son was killed in a motorcycle accident, which left us all devastated. In honor of my son’s life, I renamed my knife business to maybe tell a little of his story, and to represent him in a business that he was wanting to help me build, but would never get the chance for me to hand down to him. The reasons I do what I do are many, but if it weren’t for Christian’s belief in me and what I was making, I don’t think I would have pursued growing my business in the way I have.