👍What Ed said!👍

Let me know if I can be of help, I am right here in Michigan too.

Hello Jason, I have been pouring over the ABS archives to digitize them and just happened to recently encounter the correspondence for our Board of...

Hello David, I hope somebody with more experience in this topic will reply. I have never traveled internationally with the number of knives you ar...

Here is the reasoning, as per the board of directors discussion on the matter. The test blade can be no longer than 10" in blade length. For years "...

Anytime I have been asked to use ebony, I have strongly suggested blackwood instead, and when I showed the customer blackwood beside the ebony, they w...

Hello John, and welcome. If you haven't found it already, here is a link to a list of our rated smiths, according to their location, so that you can ...

For great bedside reading- "Tool Steel Simplified" by Palmer and Luerssen. It has one of the most in-depth chapters on decarburization and atmosphere...

Hello John, Thank you for also asking for input from others as well as myself. For almost any topic, the more input you can get from various sourc...

Greetings, and welcome from a fellow firefighter!

Standard tempering time is 2 hours, at temperature. The exact temperature is very difficult to say since it is quite dependent on your specific heat ...

It seems like a black and white type of question but is all shades of gray. How much hammer work makes it forged? When does the hammer work become a...