I forge a lot from large stock and often find that I need to squeeze my ricasso down to shape. I made a jig for my press to do the job in just a few...

Pretty slick, John. Is your spacer 5 parts?

I might first question how you austenized your 5160. Seems like it got a lot of "play" early on in knife making through the 60s-70s-80s-etc., becaus...

I think the layer count is important, as well. As I have done other cut in ladders on Ws blades, with much lower layer count that had little chatoyanc...

This is a high-layer W2 with cut in ladder that danced all over the room:

Gary, this is the result of my drawing dies on the last pass while forging to thickness. Sort of a "pressed in ladder" if you will. Also, while ve...

I thought I might share this here. To make/create/flute/etc. the handle, first one must sort of get one fitted - right? So I was getting things sh...

Way to go! Not everyone can accomplish that.

Thanks to everyone - so far - for their contribution. As an addendum to this topic, I add a picture of my San Mai. On the last weld through the pr...

I'm enjoying these ideas. I hope others are willing to share.

I think by the way you asked the questions, it's a bit obvious that you already know the answers. When components conflict the knife loses. It's a...

I got my coffee. Tell you what, I was in town yesterday and thought I'd grab a couple different tooth-count blades to play with and when I measu...

Wes, what is your most frequently used method of setting your initial weld? Press, power hammer, hand hammer, etc.?

Is there any technical reason or even traditional reason for the direction of the flute twist?