Well, there is always breaking out the MIG welder and angle grinder.......

Somehow I missed this one. Nice job on the Damascus pattern.

Make a bunch of cleavers!

Nice work! The spear looks very cool. The Damascus on that Ulu came out sweet too. Forgewelding 5160 to mild steel is a difficult forge weld at best...

Back in the 20-teens we used to have a "Topic of the Month" and one or more of them (I forget) was about guard fit and shaping. This topic is still th...

Stainless HT foil. Cooking foil is aluminum

I always sanded the precut 2"X3" pieces to 220 grit. I recently took a class with Mokume expert Todd McDonah and he has a different method of cleaning...

BTW-What method have you been doing?

Somewhere on this forum I did a how-to on making mokume gane by almost the very same method you describe. Except, I do it in the forge and don't bothe...

5160 has a high chromium content that quickly forms a chrome oxide layer that likes to bugger the weld. It really doesn't like to weld to itself, but ...

Save a photo to you desktop compute or phone. Open a browsers and go to: Online Photo editor - Pixlr.com image edit. Choose Launch PixlrX Open th...

Can you post a photo of your wiring terminals and the connections?

This is a perfect opportunity to try typing: Search+ "plunge" into the Google search bar. (I got 2,300 results.) There are many different ways to ...

I was mystified at the bladesmithing use of thousanths to measure just about everything. As Matt ponted out, 0.003 is three-thousanths. 0.03 is three...

Kale, welcome to the madness! 😀 Believe it or not, if you are a beginning bladesmith right now, you have a very big advantage over guys who started...