Actually Lin I have gone more towards the higher end belts, such as trizact, norton blaze, and the 3M 967's. I still use the klingspor J-flex for fini...

Good point Kevin, no pun intended. I should have made that clearer. I should have said swords in the style of viking swords, or the cruciform style, w...

Good post Mike. Makes you do some thinking which is good. I would think it would depend a lot on the knifes intended use. Take a fighter fo exa...

Hello Mike. First off there are no bad questions. Second, I guess you are asking about the point in relation to the rest of the knife. Well and...

Hello Tom. Personally I have my anvils on a wooden base. These bases were built up from 2X10's for the large anvil and 2X6's for the smaller anvil. Ba...

Hello Don and welcome to the forum. I look forward to meeting you at a future event. Brion

Well you can do it either way. I usually do mine after heat treat, depending on the blade. Most of mine are differentially heat treated in one way or ...

I have always been interested, okay fascinated by swords and knives. My father was an art professor at the university and taught metalwork, so I guess...

I have to say a great article and videos. Scott and Lydia, it was great to meet you all at Blade. Also thank you for explaining a guinea hog to us. ...

Thank you Mike, I appreciate the comments. I totally agree. We need to show more of the general public what we do and teach them about the ABS and the...

I thought of something else also Dana. I noticed in the video that your blade was really stiff when you were bending. I mean they should be rather tou...

Thank you Dan. It was a little tough, but the museum staff was great and they had us in the shade. Gretchen Jeanne is great to work with. I hope that ...

Hello Dana. Yes, that is not what we really want to see. I have some questions. When you say that you did not heat treat the tang, did you do an edge ...

Thanks Don, you beat me to it. Have fun Jeremy and I love this too. Good stuff. Brion