Matthew Parkinson has been a professional bladesmith since 1998. In 2005, he co-founded Falling Hammer Productions, creating high-end custom ironwork, and Dragons Breath Forge, producing swords, knives, axes, and armor for clients worldwide. Matthew has taught throughout the United States, published numerous articles, and writes the “Turning the World to Dust” column for Knife Magazine. He won the premiere episode of History Channel’s Forged in Fire in 2015 with a katana that split a bullet and placed second in the 2016 championship. That same year, he became one of fewer than 200 American Bladesmith Society journeyman smiths.