Some good work there! Certainly lots better than I can do. Excited to see more. Any particular learning resources you have for this kind of carving?

I was hoping MP would hop in. 🙂 Some old posts he contributed to are what I referenced when I tried out stainless (mostly AEB-L for what I tried), an...

A place I really like is ArizonaIronwood. Maybe a bit on the pricier side, but so far what I've seen in the pictures is exactly what I've gotten for a...

I'm certainly not the best person person to answer this, but I'll add my thoughts. When you're talking about rating baseball cards or a lot of collect...

At my local forge group, the first thing we do is go over safety. What to wear, what not to wear, where the fire extinguishers are, where the first ai...

The few times I've tried W1 or W2 with any type of water quench (brine, dish soap added, heated, etc.), they've always cracked. Maybe not catastrophic...

A notebook of some kind. Even a smaller moleskine one to keep in your back pocket is good, but I prefer a larger one or even a sketchbook because some...

So much of that design is right up my alley, I love it! Excellent work and thanks for sharing.

Those more familiar with the industry might be able to answer better, but I'm not seeing anything that would stop it from behaving like a 10xx steel f...

Not sure if it's just me, but no matter what browser I use I can't get any of the links to work on just this post specifically. Still, I learned about...

Thank you for the video! Adding acetate sheets to my shopping list.

Glad it worked! Gorgeous dagger, too. I especially appreciate the pierced ricasso. I see that in a lot of the museum reference pieces I've found, but ...

The hardness depth is going to depend on a number of factors, but we deal with much thinner material than tools like hammers. So the heat treatment yo...