As for Blade I have not heard or seen that they are postponing it. It may not be there decision as a number of cities are telling people to cancel or ...

Welcome Pieter. I look forward to seeing more of your work. Nice looking seax. Brion

Joshua, I believe the rooms are 103 and 109. I could be wrong. Testing will be Friday morning, June 5th at 8:00 am. You will need to be there early, l...

Welcome to the forum Brant. I look forward to meeting you at Blade. I am at 7P. Brion

Same polish as the blade. Unless you are going to color the frame such as blue it or brown it. Still you will have to polish the tang or frame to make...

Hello George. As Karl said you have a transition zone there with some alloy banding. First off, if this is some of Aldos 1084, the manganese amount in...

As a judge Evan an integral would be fine and as a matter of fact an integral won the best JS submission award the last two years. I would probably do...

Welcome Anthony. It is good to see you here. Nice work!! Brion

Dave the schedule has not been set so far. As for camping in the area, there is a KOA that is not too far from the college. Like five miles or so. B...

Welcome Harold! It is good to have you in the ABS and on the forum. Brion

Here are the instructors for the spring 2020 classes at Texarkana College Bill Moran School. February 17-28 Introduction to Bladesmithing class: ...

I have been following this thread and agree with the social media presence. There will be one, at least on facebook for now. We will see about instagr...

Hey Derrick. I agree completely on the social media aspect. To that end there will be an ABS facebook page in the near future. The admin team is alrea...

Brian, Kevin speaks the truth. Your quench A should work fine for 52100. Also 5160, 80crv2, O1, etc. Brion

Another thing Brian. 52100 likes a slower quenchant than parks 50. I believe parks AAA or something similar is a better choice. Brion