Personally, I think that you'd be pleased with any of the "top end" machines. Of the two you mentioned, I would personally go with the KMG. Its not...

Thats a good question..... I don't know. What I do is forge all the 416 I use. I generally get it in 1" and 1 1/4" round stock, then forge it to wha...

I agree with Brion on the balance for various types of knives. It gets tricky when we use larger spacers and/or buttcaps as you mentioned. That's t...

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Ed, out of curiosity, how do you do your heat treating without an oven? Simply in a thermometer measured forge? Forgive my ignorance, maybe I can scor...

I think the buy versus build thing is always a question in our minds..... at least it always has been for me. Over the years I've learned to look at ...

my largest issue would be how to attach or suspend the wire without having it short out. I wasn't sure how to say that in my post, but that was...

I suspect you COULD, but I suspect there would be some "issues" you'd have to work out along the way. Something that caught my attention in y...

Sorry to hear this, but I totally understand the reasons behind it. I was heavily involved in the Southern Alberta Hammer-In, and kept in close cont...

It is too bad. I have very mixed emotions about it, on the one hand I always looked at it as a sort of "duty" for me to help our Vets. But I simply ...

Shipping a knife always begins with the packaging. I'm sure we've all gotten a package where the sender skimped on packing/padding, and the item(s) a...

For me, the thickness I use depends on what I want in the finished billet. Generally speaking my cores tend to be .080" to .125". Because there is s...

I'll piggyback/add to what Derrick said..... These are things that I have discovered/do that makes my life much nicer when building stainless S...