The ABS Website may not be everything to everybody, but the availability of contact information is not a website thing as much as a member thing. We ...

Thanks for the heads up Ed. It sounds more like a very gauche attempt to raise money by somebody of a generation that sees nothing off about this sor...

Auto-hamon: Agitate. Your tempts sound good so you need to increase your quenching rate and the quickest way would be to agitate more aggressively. ...

There should be an Intro to Bladesmithing course from August 21 through September 1, with the new Super Hammer-in and Convention happening on the week...

I will get somebody on this.

One word- Cratex. This is known as the grind plunge and if you can get it up to around 400X grit on the belt you can use a Cratex drum tip, around 1/...

Due to the extreme hardenability there should be less of a problem with proeutectoid phase collection in the grain boundaries. Also, true normalizing...

Hello Andrew, You are very welcome. I enjoyed our day making damascus, and look forward to seeing your work in the future.

Welcome Jared.

Classic profile on a very classic blade, good luck with your project.

Hello Kevin, The fractured end grain is not really as clean as it should be. I am not sure of all that I am seeing but you could have had a roughe...

Hello Pablo, After an exhaustive search of the database records and reaching out to the ABS office for membership records, it would appear that Sam...

Thank you so much Pablo for pointing that out. I need to examine the database and see why Sam did not come up on that list and correct it.