Thanks for the appreciation, Lin. I'm trying some innovative (for me) stuff on this knife. I'm photo documenting the entire process of making th...

Thanks for posting this Allen!! Great post! Joe is a super nice guy. A fantastic teacher too. You were lucky to have him as your i...

Just got the blade finshed for this knife. Here's a photo of how it came out. Attached files

Lin, Great suggestion!! Thanks for mentioning this feature. I hope more folks will take advantage of it.

I ground the ridges formed by the pattern dies off, etched the bar stock and cut the blade shape from it. Here's what the blade pattern looks like. ...

I welded the last restack of layers today and pressed the pattern into the bar of blade stock. I'm pretty happy with how it is looking so far. B...

Hey Shawn, Thanks for the reply. This is just the information that I was looking for. I meant to post more information about what I was attempt...

I contacted Kevin Jones about the CKCA's marks registry. At this time, Kevin is just collecting marks and there is no actual database. Below is his ...

Concerning a touch-mark database; I think that it is a great idea. However, I know that the Custom Knife Collector's Association is already working o...

I forgot to mention that Dave Sloan won the cutting competition, with second place going to Jim Crowell. If I remember correctly, we had nine competi...

Sorry that it took me so long to get a post up here. Things have been nuts around here since the event and I am trying to catch up. We had a gre...

Lin, I am using Corel Draw X4. I bought it about two months ago. A couple of weeks after I bought this version, they came out with X5. I started us...

I've got both of Ron's books and they are really helpful in learning how to design artwork. I've probably got 25 or 30 more books filled with engravi...