​Roy has been forging since 2008 and he opened his company in 2012. Roy has had extensive blacksmith training. He has studied under master smiths Peter Ross, Thomas Latane, Clay Spencer, Douglas Pryor, and Wayne Apgar. Roy is actively involved in the blacksmithing community and frequently teaches classes on a wide array of topics from ornamental iron flowers to wrought iron hammers. He frequently teaches private classes at his home shop. He occasionally travels nation wide to teach classes.

Hello everyone, I’m Thomas Goodemoot and I’m from rural northern Michigan. Ever since I can remember, I’ve always had a love for working hot metal. When I was a young boy, my friends and I would build camp fires to heat steel and make knives, like most kids want to make, not really knowing what we were doing but we kept at it and got better and started making other tools. It was a blast to see what we could make out of scrap. The only rule our parents had was no power tools. When I was twenty, I joined the army where I served four years and deployed twice as a mechanic- once to Iraq and then to Afghanistan. In my off time I still would make stuff out of scrap steel. When I got out, I started watching a lot of YouTube, and three years ago I built my own forge and collected some tools and started the craft back up. I began to fix some of my old farm equipment. With a lot of failures, I soon got better. Practices makes improvement. In 2021, I had a chance to meet Roy and as we talked, it was the beginning of a great friendship. Roy got my attention off of only making knives and tools, and on to other great blacksmithing projects. What a blessing Roy has been and his willingness to share his knowledge of the trade. I am so grateful to be able to work and learn with him and grow as a blacksmith. I’m looking forward to what the future holds. Thank you and God bless.