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Awesome guys thanks for the point in the right direction!

So last night I was roving on Craig's List and stumbled across a gem. I called up the guy (near the Wisconsin border) and after a couple of hours I was driving through the country side with a heavy load in my SUV. I had found a 200 lb white oak burl for $100. Now I just need to find a good...

Hello all I just finished up this little puukko. This pattern welded puukko has a stacked birch bark handle. The blade is 1084, 1095, and 15N20 at about 500 layers and 1 inch wide and 4 inches long. Total length is 7 1/2 inches Unfortunately when I took the picture I didn't notice the smudge...

Hello all it has been a busy few months since I last posted and I thought I would make a post to show what I've been up to over the summer months. Most of my time was taken up with teaching summer programs and opening the blacksmithing school, but in between the sixty hour weeks I found some...

Thanks Kevin, that means a lot to me coming from you always loved your work!

Hello all, I was going to be ordering new steel for the shop and was considering A2 as a possibility to try out. Specifically with pattern welding and forge welding. I was thinking that it might make a good complimentary steel in axes (1018 body and A2 forge welded in for the bit) From what I...

Here is a photo of the axe with sheath and some better photos in general. The sheath is 8 ounce leather.

Haha that's great I wish that was on a t-shirt Roadapples!

Thanks Lagrange, it is definitely an excellent chopper! When I got home the tree outside of our window was missing some branches and my lady instantly looked at me:shush:

Thanks! I really was a ton of fun to make. I'm hoping to make up one for myself maybe next week but I think I'll use ash or hickory on my axe.

Hello all! I wanted to share an axe that I made between yesterday and this morning. It is a wrap and weld construction made from 1/2 x 2 1/12 inch flat bar with a 3/16 x 2 1/2 inch piece of 1095 for the edge. The edge on this one is 5 3/4 inches long, the head is 8 inches long, and the handle...

Beautiful work!

That's so cool! I really want to try something like that now!

Thanks! I was most happy with the sheath on this one. I have been experimenting with exotic woods for sheaths and was happy with how slim and slender I was able to make this one.

Kevin, I used 1084 and 15N20 for the back bars and W1 for the edge bar. Here is a picture of the completed sword.

A customer had seen a larger dirk that I had done recently and requested something a bit smaller...more in the 10 inch range. He was kind enough to give me full artistic license and I came up with this smaller dirk. The overall length is 10 inches so just in between a sgian dubh and a dirk. The...

I recently made these chisels from 1095 and curly maple. The largest chisel has an edge width of 1.5 inches and length of 12 inches. The gouge and rounded chisel are each nearly 11 inches long and 1 inch wide. The runes read "carver" which is where they were made in my shop in Carver MN. The...

Travis I sent you a PM.

Thank you for the kind words everyone...as I said I got the bug so I made three more today These ones are made from 1095 and curly maple. The runes read "carver" denoting the job they perform plus where they were made (my shop in Carver MN) the big straight chisel is about 13 inches long and...

Thanks guys, Yeah Dave I just watched that video again and wish that it showed more of the steps!