Useful information about forging knives, for beginners like me.
After weeks of consideration and research on the web, I finally decided to buy a katana. Not a cheap wall-hanger, but a practical sword, forged by hand and differentially hardened.
The charcoal forge was fun to build and use, but let’s face it, it takes forever to heat-up and it is pretty dirty. If I made another one, it would be more of a closed design to concentrate and conserve heat, and would have a good hand-cranked blower. So, I went on Ebay and shopped [...]
I finally decided to fire up the forge (see: Building a Forge and Making Knives, Part One), and try hammering a railroad spike into some kind of a knife. The only item I was missing was the air source. Forge blowers on Ebay are fairly expensive, from $150 to $250 average. Considering that I could [...]
I finally decided to go ahead and build a charcoal forge to make knives out of railroad spikes, motorcycle chains, suspension springs and other junk steel. I have never done this before, but as always, I researched the subject thoroughly before diving in. My goal is to produce crude knives at first, without using any [...]