That's all kinds of cool.

Agreed. I've always found it best to NOT center a guard on the ricasso. At first glance, one might think this is the thing to do. But I have the bot...

And don't forget to increase the initial count of layers in the beginning billet. But you're already past that. My ladder dies are pieces of old "gear...

I, too, start with 13 layers. But the first thing I do is draw that out and cut into 4 and re-stack and weld so I have 52 layers. X 3 would work as we...

Living in the mid-west - and probably many other places as well - it can get pretty hot. About 10 years ago here in Illinois we went through a swelt...

It was a trap.! That's the response I was hoping for. For posting photos in forums I use IMGUR:/p>

Like this?? Here's a hunter: [img/p> Followed by another hunter: [img/p> Followed by yet another hunter! [img/p>

This is one I just finished. I will also show how I forged that billet. I band saw cut the tip so as to keep the core in the center. The tang and ...

I don't do mine like that. I only have an arc welder. Just think "oxygen free". I first saw this demonstrated with the billet stuck inside a short p...

I agree with Ed. I don't use the coffee on anything. I tried it a few times. It certainly makes things black! But - you can rub it off with your t...

Great ideas! Better than tape.

Thanks. It's always nice to have options. Right now my Wickett and Craig leather is four weeks out.

See you soon!

Nice variety! That's the way it should be. I've seen sets where every knife just looks like a different size of all the other ones. This shows a bro...

The soft back - and even the edge quench - are both "surrounded", in part, by the performance tests that are designed to demonstrate that a blade smit...