Great work Wes and Larry and everyone involved. You all do a great job with the up and coming knifemakers. This is what the ABS is about, passing on o...

I love these photos of the sets. As Lin said really good material for aspiring JS and MS candidates. Great work guys. Also a big Thank you to Jim Coop...

Again great job Allen and congratulations. I though that looked like a different blade style. I bet it bent good with that hardening line. Is the stee...

Hello Danny. I know that you are frustrated. I looked at your heat treat regimen and noticed some things. Are you using the 1650 for quench temp? If s...

Looks great Danny. You got it. Brion

Ed, I have a cutoff hardie and a couple of fullering swages. I also have some doming hardies that I use for bending things. That is about it. I have s...

Yep, that is the place. Very helpful folks and very willing to do small orders. Now you have enough satanite to last you a while Dan. A good place to ...

Welcome Chris. I wish you the best in your forging. If you have any questions, just ask them here and they will get answered. There is a lot of inform...

Very intriguing question Dan. I am sure this will be an interesting discussion. I believe that a person should be able to forge a knife by hand ...

I am looking forward to it. We had beautiful weather and location last year. Hard to beat the scenery. I will be doing a demo on hamons. Basically wha...

Ed for my vertical tank, I went to a place called Metal Supermarket and bought some 1/8" thick four inch diameter black pipe, three feet long. Then a ...

Ed I have one of the Brownells bluing tanks and it works very well. You may want to put a drain spigot in for ease of removal of the oil. I believe th...

Yes the ABS members did very well. Congratulations to them all. Brion

Here is a suggestion Danny. Make a knife for yourself, nothing fancy. Make it out of a steel you are familiar with, such as 1084. Heat treat it to the...