Bruce Shaw received his art training at Cal-State University in Los Angeles. He started engraving in 1978 and has been engraving full time since 1984. He has achieved Master status in the Firearms Engravers Guild of America.

Bruce specializes in knives with Native American designs as well as game animal designs with American Scroll borders. Bruce is also a painter and an accomplished woodworker.

Many of the customers that come to Bruce for his work have returned year after year for the high standards of craftsmanship that they know Bruce is so famous for.