Great thoughts to keep in mind! Handles shrinking or expanding can certainly effect whether a knife would pass or not. If it worries you, I'd c...

The WIP is a "sticky" at the top of this particular forum..... but it was a victim of the Photobucket fiasco...... you can't see the pics..... and whe...

Daniel.... If you're going to use the forge for welding, I would encourage you to find/buy a case. It will save you a bunch of money versus buy...

I will often use a 4-40 threaded steel clevis (generally used for radio controlled airplane/vehicles). These have a 1/16" pin. I drill a 1/16" hol...

Use the steel(s) that you are most familiar and comfortable with. Over the years I have seen many folks who either tried a "new" steel, or new techni...

Years ago I started out using the baking lacquers from Brownells, but have since gone almost elusively to liquid Gun-Kote 2400. It's all done in t...

With that anvil, the first thing is to decide which direction you're going to face it..... generally a person who is right handed faces the horn to th...

Can I assume you are referring to how to "accordion fold" a mosaic damascus billet..... where the pattern in in the end grain of the bar, and you need...

Leaving a blade's tip isn't unusual during the forging process, but I personally feel it's counter productive in the finished product. Over the yea...

Beyond plans being available, or paying someone to build you one, I don't know of any that are commercially available. I've owned/used a rolling ...

I'm not a fan of, nor do I recommend a standard "dust collector" in a knife shop. At one time I had one installed (like you it was given to me)....an...

It looks like you might have been "falling off" the bottom of the platen..... the bottom edge of a platen will leave those type of marks. If your p...

What I'm curious about is how everyone stores their files? I've heard you shouldn't pile them in a tool box drawer to bounce around on each other, but...

Something that seems so simple, and that's one of a Bladesmtih's/Knifemaker's most used tools! During my career as a Bladesmith, the qualit...

I like to understand expectations and goals that go into specific design elements. As it pertains to the ABS testing standards, a ricasso is expe...