Thanks. I will give welding it a try. I actually have some square stock on hand that I took home from the blacksmithing class. If it fails, I will be ...

I Meant no offense. and I think every bladesmith will agree you always need more clamps. however I want to say sorry I was also way overthinking it (a...

This is 26C3. I made it as a test piece to see how I liked the steal 3 years ago. I overheated some sections, and as I let it sit in my forge instead ...

My guess for that blemish in the wood is you are using thin pre-cut scales and are clamping it with a C clamp. like the thicker pointy thing is pointi...

Thanks I will be reading that post. I will keep the measurements and lack of a ricasso in mind for the next ones. the bottom one is a bit too short a...

Kinda glad I am adding Jewelry making and only plan on this, hopefully supplementing SSI as SSD...and eventually plan to teach.

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Have you tried hot fitting the guard to the tang? i find the center mark it with a center punch, then heat it ups and I punch a hole (ok, I cheat and ...

Thank you. When is Blade Show this year? and when do the updates come out? right now, both myself and the only member of my family(my mom) I am comfor...

You're right. I likely had a hole in it. I will do that then. I did dunk it in water, so the steel, despite being mild steel, was brittle. This was ma...

Sorry, it took me 2 days to respond. It makes sense, but how did the melt coat the bottom so uniformly? As this is the underside of the dish, that's ...

1: mild steel, rightly 1/2 inch deep, 2 inches wide, and 3 inches long with a little bit of old melted copper still affixed to it welded with blue dem...