I have moved this discussion to the General Private Member Discussion sub-forum and left a link to it in the original posting area. This thread ...

Lin I think that you gave some excellent advice.

I do however find that the fact you can take a year off that wait by taking the class to be a bit offensive. To me this comes off poorly, like "pay th...

Judging for Master Smith and Journeyman Smith Ratings in Atlanta at the 2014 Blade Show ABS bladesmiths who plan to be juried for the MS or JS rati...

Is there a prerequisite number of knives a person must make before attaining JS status? Jason The answer is no to your initial question. Please r...

Well done Bob! It is great to see our ABS YouTube Channel videos providing useful information to our ABS members.

Great Topic Brion! To get this discussion started I am posting a video that Karl Andersen filmed about the construction, features, and use of...

Thank you Brion. This is an outstanding tutorial. Sally says...Wow! beautiful work!

There are several styles of checkering files and the one that you chose will depend upon the the look that you are trying to achieve. I use a 40 LPI c...

Jason I have information about our newest Journeyman Smith posted on the ABS Forum in this thread, click:/span>

I just received the below email from Mike Snyder: Dan: Â Thanks to your help, we have sold all of the big equipment. Â Ms. Hunt is trying to g...