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Here is my take on a small carving axe. The axe if made by the punch and drift method and is Hot punched and then Hand forged out of a solid billet of EN9 (1050) steel. I work with hand hammer , power hammer and power press. The blade is triple normalised and differentially hardened in oil...

I was walking along the beach somewhere near whitstable and have picked up a dozen or so wild oysters from the chalk rock pools where they are happily growing wild . they are plump and healthy and smell good . whats the best way to treat them before eating or cooking ? how do I find out if...

I think a point is being missed here . 30 seconds? you make bush craft knives for people who enjoy there bushcraft ,and probably enjoy there sharpening as a pleasurable leasure activity ? there is nothing wrong with spending 2 minutes or even a leasurly 15 minutes making your beloved knife...

Like i said horses for courses,stropping doesnt take a long time maby one to 2 minutes and makes a diference (I know that a steel would take a few seconds) . Knives expecially bushcraft knives cut a lot more that just flesh and flesh is not the same as wood or rope or paper,different types of...

a couple of things about sharp . there is more than one type of sharp . I have for years restored the edge cutting on kitchen knives by steeling one on the back of another . steeling is a great way of keeping a knife cutting and a course stone (say 320 or so) will sharpen a knife super...

I use a strip of leather glued to a strip of 9mm ply .you can really put some pressure into the stropping and the plys flex helps slightly convex the edge (stropping with compound will convex the edge,more so on a loose belt less so on a backed board,we are talking micro convex here) I use...

that knife looks about as forged as a razorblade to me .stock removal from ground stock with side slabs . In what way is that forged (unless you think a remake of an old design is a forgery)

this is the first knife I ever Made and has been with me all over the place and served well for 12 years now How do you get pictures to actually show in the thread ?

that is a nice knife I have one by penillion (on british blades with the same blade .

I really like that bridge ,that is a very simpathetic river crossing .

I have only one of my own knives in the kitchen ,i borrow a lot of them for a while before they go out though . I really like goucho knives take your kitchen into the woods. here is my own kitchen knife and another camp knife (really a kitchen knife with guard) this is a stainless...

Graham oxley tool steels in sheffield are a good supplier,there are others . en42 is a great simple carbon steel to forge . New steel should be 3 to 5 quid a kilo fpr simple stuff,there are advantages to using known steels,however scrap steel is fun and does have a moral/eco advantage

I would always wrap an axe or knives up as parcells with the contents written on the parcels ,not necesserily for the airlines but tools will go down better with police or transport police if made unusable in the imediate sense . I have taken axe etc to canada and no probs ,Have fun.

Shinken , come along ,the more the merrier I shall put up more details closer to the time . Dave , thats a shame .is your booking for the weekend ?there is going to be a cutting comp but i guess you will be at jacks to defend your title?!!

sorry not to reply earlier I,ve been in the usa doing a sword course with don fogg . george you would be welcome to come but at 12 years old you would need a parent along too , the weekend is just too busy for me to be constantly supervising.Hopefully dave budd will be along also as well as...

Hi , I havn't posted here before but i thought that some of you might be interested in the knife forgeing "hammer in "that i am having on one of the weekends in mid march . It will be a gathering of people who are interested in bladesmithing and we will be forging a blade and having a...