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Wheres the fun if there is no learning, I'm not saying I want to be able to make everything perfect day 1, I just want to try my hand at it and see how far it can go. If it requires more work on my part and takes a while to learn, Ill go the distance. If the blades crack in the quench, I can...

I'm about to get all of my parts and pieces together and finish up my blacksmithing shop. I want to go about making and treating blades in a more traditional manner: hammering em out, draw filing to sharp and shape, aneal the steel for a couple of nights(long soak in the forge, let cool in...

What he said is one way, another thing you could look at doing is taking that bar your using as an anvil and rounding out the edges at one end, just take you a file and some sandpaper and make it nice smooth and round. Normally that is one of the uses of an anvil horn, but also note: most anvils...

So what are you trying to do here? Are you wanting to do a hidden tang or a full tang with distal taper ? So long as the corners of your "anvil" wont be destroyed if you hammer in the tang shape it should be fine, I don't see what lack of a hardy has to do with the tang. With a full tang and a...

It does sound like a better idea, and Ive reworked my design to incorporate a wooden handle with a leather and chord wrap similar to an albion. few questions: 1. how do you make a curved hole in the wood to burn in the tang, the way I see it will probably involve cutting the block in half and...

sounds like a place ill be happy to frequent, if I can manage to find me some ceramic blankets tomorrow I may be able to start my own forging this next week

I'm looking at making me a sturdy and unique machete and I decided on making a golok, now there are a few things I'm looking at doing to help performance, one is horizontal fullers and the other is a metal handle. I'm mainly wanting to make me a beast of a machete for taking out medium sized...

I have managed to secure me a 300-ish pound chunk of fresh cut timber to use is an anvil base, is that sufficient overkill? and I was taking a tour of a company that makes girder structures for large commercial facilities, and they had some ten inch thick slabs of steel, and I was thinking...

I suppose I'll hold off on that project, going to make all my tools first anyways(couple pairs of tongs, some different hammers maybe, some hot and cold chisels, a hatchet and a couple of hardy blocks)

alright, I've got about a week before I can start forging blades, first thing I'm thinking of is a large knife for taking down and witling medium sized trees. So what I was thinking is something like a cleaver mixed with a machete. Hoping to make it around three inches wide and about twelve...

Hunter here, long story short, I'm an mechanical engineer major. In general I like taking a certain medium and manipulating it into something else. One of my longtime mediums is paper, and I have developed my art of origami into expert level, mainly I like taking a scrap of something and making...