please some one else chime in if I am wrong on this but if I remember right tempering range starts at around 200 deg and ends at around 1100degs after...

Schedule for Sat. 9AM set up sign in and lighting of wootz furnace 10 am -11AM Pattern welding demo by Matthew Parkinson 11-11:30AM forging a s...

will be giving a presentation/talk on antique swords along with a show and tell. we have also added a sword cutting demo and Donald Dupuis will be pr...

my main forging hammer (Her name is Bertha) is a 4lb cross peen that I dressed the face with a lot of crown ( she is dressed almost like a rounding ha...

Nickel silver is a copper alloy and in some ways isn't that far from brass, my guess is one of two things happened, 1st the heat caused the guard to o...

one thing that often helps is having a photo of a women in the class included in adverts along with photos of men. sometimes that is all it takes to r...

Hi Nick I have noticed at the schools where I teach that I get more females in classes that are project based rather than in classes that are skil...