I thank you so much for all of your kind words. The three of you are a lot of my inspiration in knife making and it means a lot. Thank you, ...

Scales ready to attach: Scales showing both the domed silver pins & tubing that was originally used to attach the scales. (The silver pins...

Filework done to the tang (the slot up front is for a silver overlay). The silver soldered to the back of the blade and handle scales rou...

Glad that will help. Just remember to leave them in the forge with the layers vertical so that the handle layers don't slump. Gary

Travis, Something that you can do is to leave one (or more) of the middle layers of the stack 2-4' long rather than cutting it to 6" like the res...

Sounds like a great line-up. You know that I'll be there. Gary

Hello & welcome to the forum. It sounds like you have been & will be learning from the best. All my best, Gary

Welcome, Mark. Sounds like your off to a good start with your knife making. When you get the chance show us some of your work. If you are ever ...

I think George has the right idea. Keep the heavy noise to reasonable hours and invite the neighbors over to watch. Maybe even put a hammer in their...

We didn't have any damaging winds here. Pretty nasty thunderstorms with some hail but luckily no damage. All my best to those who had worse. ...

Curious. What do you guys treat your strop with?

I sure wish that I could make it but I've already committed to be elsewhere. I would absolutely love being there for Alex Daniels' talk. If it about...

Something that Brion mentioned in the original post was benches. This is another thing that is hard to have too much of. Every foot of wall in my sh...