Thanks, the pins are some 1/8 steel, but I will check out the 1/16. probably a better idea.

Thanks everyone, I am definitely learning... I have made some of the handle pieces 3 times now, and am dreaming of a mini mill... (someday) It is ...

Kevin R. Cashen I agree on the self training. This has been painstaking slow and I have made the guard and spacer twice… still not entirely happy with...

Thats all I am doing, pasting the URL, you can also test it by previewing your post.

The photos are first posted on my website, I usually resize them so that they have a maximum size they are a max of 1024 on the largest edge. Then I...

This was what I am calling a Modern Frontier set. A Bowie and a Tomahawk (which was much harder than I thought)

Michael Samdahl Thanks for the compliment! I live in St. Albert, Alberta, Canada and North Buck Lake, Alberta. About a 50% split. I dont have many s...

Michael Samdahl Yeah, I was going to see if I can get Slash to play guitar...

Michael Samdahl I do the copper damascus by watching the temperatures. Really the copper braises to the steel. 1st I create the damascus forge to ...

Thats one of them there corner daggers... Every time I have tried to straighten, it borked.

I love watching Ilya's work. I agree on the hammer skills. I spent my first year doing things like buiding my forge, making some fire pokers, hanger...

honestly you wont go wrong with any of those. IMHO. I went with a 2hp on mine and am very happy with the choice. More is always gooder if you can. ...