(hammer pounding) (warm music) - I make mostly kitchen knives and hunting knives, functional stuff, high performance knives.

That way when you grab for one, you don't just put it, put it back in the drawer.

Something you can actually use and take care of and hopefully it'll outlast you and your family.

(machine whirring) The inspiration behind the name Doberman Forge was my dog at the time.

He had a lot of traits, he was fearless and he protected his family.

And I kind of wanted to fold all those into my work.

So a functional piece of art, hopefully, that had those traits as well.

(flame bursting) (flame blowing) (hammer pounding) My interest in blacksmithing really arose one night and I had a rough day at work.

I had been reading the Bible and it was one of those quotes that had, it was a metaphor for blacksmithing, I wanted to context clues to understand the verse that I was reading.

And long story short, the sun started coming up.

I've been researching about blacksmithing for that long, and it turned into a two or three year long daily fascination where I was reading about blacksmithing at some level.

And then I told my grandpa, I think I'm gonna build a forge.

He's like, cool, go into my house and look under the stairwell.

He said, you could have it.

And I went and looked and it was, found out that it was my grandmother's dad's anvil.

And he had passed 40 years before I was born, but he was a master blacksmith.

(machine pounding) And one of the ways I learned bladesmithing was an online forum group, there's a bunch of similar guys like me and we'll just share information.

One day the producers from "Forged in Fire" had posted a banner on there inviting and encouraging people to congratulations come on the show.

So I just responded and I went on the show and luckily I won.

- Gabe, congratulations, you are the "Forged in Fire" champion and will be receiving a check for $10,000, good job.

- The night my show aired and I was showed favorably in winning, I had several thousands of dollars worth of orders that night.

I had just launched my website and with all those orders I said, "Look, I'm just gonna quit all my jobs and we're gonna try this for a little while."

And I've been doing that since 2017 and it still pays my mortgage.

Knife making is a problem solving thing.

So you always have a problem.

And there's way more than one solution and there's about 500 different stages.

So even though it's the same thing, it's spread out over a longer timeframe.

(machine whirring) Every knife based on the complexity, can take anywhere from five hours to 100 hours.

You take a little bit of care of it and it takes care of you.