Howdy!
These links will take you to the knife pages. I began putting
knife kits together almost 15 years ago. I then started making
my own creations from any metal available and began reading up
on metallurgy and knifemaking. As a highschool student, I easily
became distrated with other things and put the knifemaking aside.
While in college, I picked it back up. I had many resources
available to me and a much better understanding of proper
metallurgy. I began making stock removal knives and limited
forged pieces (using a rosebud tip on a welding rig as a heat
source). I now have a couple coal forges, a propane forge, several
electric furnaces and am finishing up a propane crucible melting
furnace to melt medium carbon steel in addidtion to non-ferrous
alloys. For knife blade material...My father's files have now been
replaced with forged billets of pattern welded steel and the
finished products are far superior to those early ones! These
links are to the various blades I have made. The earliest are
kind of crude, but it's nice to look back at where
we started to understand how far we have come!
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