[quote name='Karl B. Andersen' date='03 August 2017 - 06:36 AM' timestamp='1501760208' post='20930'] I, too, surface grind my ricasso and tang paral...

[quote name='Brian Fox' date='27 May 2017 - 07:42 AM' timestamp='1495888976' post='20461'] Thanks for the replies fellas, I ended up not swedging bu...

Good point! I have been making stock removal knives for 35+ years but forging is a different cat all together! I love it. Just wish I had star...

[quote name='Joshua States' date='28 June 2017 - 11:14 PM' timestamp='1498709696' post='20740'] If you do the same thing with the mirror on the side...

[quote name='Joshua States' date='28 June 2017 - 07:50 PM' timestamp='1498697412' post='20734'] I always check my guard alignment to the blade with ...

[quote name='Ed Caffrey' date='25 June 2017 - 07:27 PM' timestamp='1498436829' post='20720'] I had the same issue, and finally figured out a way. ...

[quote name='Joshua States' date='27 January 2017 - 10:33 PM' timestamp='1485577987' post='19400'] So much of this is personal taste and subjective,...

[quote name='Karl B. Andersen' date='26 January 2017 - 06:47 AM' timestamp='1485434820' post='19381'] I try to keep mine a maximum of .200" 1/4" ...

[quote name='Joshua States' date='28 January 2017 - 11:25 AM' timestamp='1485624358' post='19407'] If I were to expand on this a bit, I would bring ...

[quote name='Robert Wright' date='25 January 2017 - 09:43 AM' timestamp='1485358981' post='19377'] Joey, I apply this general rule that I was taught...

[quote name='Gary Mulkey' date='24 January 2017 - 05:46 AM' timestamp='1485258390' post='19366'] Joey, What you ask has no definite rule but is...

This is my attempt at a Hill Billy Hambone, as taught by Jim Crowell in the Basic course this past April, using an acetylene torch? The knife has some...