I use wood ash from my Vermont Castings wood stove. Bill Moran told me about using wood ash for this purpose.

Clay Welcome to the American Bladesmith Society! I am glad that you have found the ABS Forum to be a useful source of information and wish yo...

Gary: It looks like an outstanding line-up of demonstrators for your Branson Hammer-In on September 24-25, 2011. Thank you for letting every...

Jeremy Take a look at the video of Master Smith Hanford Miller that I posted on the ABS YouTube Channel. The jig and procedure that Hanford descr...

Congratulations to Lin Rhea MS, Karl B. Andersen JS, and Doug Campbell JS for their outstanding contribution to benefit the St. Jude's Children's Hosp...

Jeremy I am glad that you are enjoying the ABS Website. There are no current plans to add an ABS school beyond the current schools in Arkan...

Jeremy Welcome to the American Bladesmith Society and the ABS Forum. Please post any questions that you have and your fellow ABS members will try...

Lin You made some good points. Proposed changes to improve the Annual Banquet and Meeting were discussed at the Board meeting and that discussion...

Dana You can see that your post and call to get together is working out well. You can find the contact information for any ABS member by sim...

Dana You are welcome and you may also want to try and organize monthly meetings of bladesmiths in your area as many have done in other areas of the ...

Dana We only had one school for 30 years but now have three schools. It is a lot of work to operate the three existing schools in Arkansas, North C...