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Alright, I was trying to shorten the tang and make it skinnier, like a stick tang....weeeeell.. I cut the end of the tang area too short me thinks. From the bottom edge, starting at the ricasso I have 3.25" to the end of the tang. The tang and ricasso are 3/8 thick while the blade is...

welcome from Pike County!

neo-tribal and post-apocolypic are my two most fav. words when talking about bowies hahaha so this should be a sweet outcome with these two cutters and sheath.

thanks for all the warm welcomes, hopefully I can begin to contribute to knowledge bank here, but i doubt you guys wanna learn about washing coal, reading barney books to kids, welding/pipefitting and the improper use of oxy/acy torches :)

today and every day a cheapo Army woodland pattern SAK Tinker because that's the first knife i ever owned and was given by my biological father who's in the military as well. It'll be my EDC until I can afford a custom texas toothpick :)

That is going to be awesome Murph! That drawing looks sweet, wish I had some artistic skills for drawing.

Thanks Doug, I do hit quite hard with that 4 lb. hammer :) Guess i'm used to beating the crap out of stuff with 16 lb. sledge hammers at work sometimes...anyway, I'll try to finesse the strikes more and see what I come up with. If all else fails and i get stuck i'll grab a 8" disc grinder and...

starting on the tang today, possibly pics before I leave for work later this afternoon. Hopefully I don't mess this up hahha. Alright, update: I started forming the ricasso area and have it looking good, but tapering the tang down is being a problem for me. The bar is so damn thick that i'm...

Looks good, def. looks better than all of my stuff thus far :)

Yes sir sure did on building the forge. Both of the forges you see in that picture are made by me. The second one is going to Dan Unger though. Was surprised at how easy it was to build a forge though :) Patrick, i'll put the second one in for another heat and do just that. One good question...

Sean, you rock!

I used a piece of spring steel from an industrial spring that I straightened out with a torch on the job. I followed Kevin Cashen's article closely on shaping a bowie and his techniques work, although I made it harder on myself quite a bit with inaccurate hammer strikes and the like. As you can...

Thanks gang, I'm getting ready to post my first true forging from an industrial spring from the prep plant, IE i'm guessing it's 5160 or something like it.....pictures to follow with explanation in the new to knifemaking forum.

Darren Ellis is top notch. All the materials used in my forge are from Darren, from the burner to the lining, itc-100 and satanite...only thing non-ellis bought was the blower.

Love that tutorial, brass on bowies makes me feel all warm inside :)

i'd be interested depending on size and price as well.

I'm a maybe, depends on when i get done shooting.

Thanks Mike, if I get a free chance, I'll do my best to come up that way that Sat. evening after the matches are over.

I would love to, but I'll be shooting competitively for my unit on the 24-25 at Ft. Knox.

just wanted to say hi and that i'm a KY boy from Phelps, in Pike County :) just now learning to forge...my intro is in the intro forum on here, and I'm also a member on the Usual Suspects...