This is my project Bowie after clean up. We were glad that Nick and Derrick wanted to join in the fun. Thank you both for your hospitality....

Kevin, There is no perfect hammer to get out hammer marks. The hammer marks are there because you need practice. Most any blacksmith style hammer is f...

Other than a few basic "do's and don'ts" I think one's safety would be the responsibility of each person in the forge with the one exception, when chi...

Kevin, I will give you some good advice before I go further. I want you to order the book Handles and Guards" by Joe Keeslar. You can find it in th...

Kevin, At what stage in the blade making process are you? Forged? Heat treated? etc.

Nice! Congratulation Dave!

Timothy, that was a good question. I also agree with Guillermo's reply completely. I often use a well supplied blacksmith shop as my model for to...

Good job! Congratulations!

Dave, As brought out in each of the above replies by other smiths, it could be a sum total of several things that has lead to the resulting behavior o...

Dave, I see from the photos three things that most likely contributes to it breaking/bending where it did. There's not much distal taper in the ...

Thanks Nick. Howard Clark asked on social media "what steels I prefer using for these knives and why?". This will be a big part of the class' dis...

That is Beautiful work!!! Great job on the patina!!!

Nice one Brian. I' have used a few of this style and they are nice. I'm more used to using an early period cross peen.