Forged Bowie

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This is a forged Bowie I made at the first of last year. The steel is 3/16″ 1095 steel with a 10″ blade, cherry handle scales and a gun blued finish. I have another Bowie in the works with 1/4″ 1080 and a 12″ blade. I’m going to work on some Bowie’s and other style knives with guards. I know my day job gets in the way sometimes. Sorry, I haven’t posted in a while.

Powered shop and new grinder

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It has been a while since my last post. We have finally got our shop wired and fully powered. W have been running off of drop cords every since we started our shop in N.C. Our new grinder has a 3 phase 2 hp. motor with a vfd. The vfd converts the power and also adds the ability to run variable speed, as well as backward. We have given the new shop power a test run by starting 3 grinders at once. the lights went dim before with just one grinder. We have success. We are looking forward to the new grinder and full power

    Learning some forging tips from Burt Foster

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    I started doing stock removal knifemaking around 12 years ago. I have always been interested in forging so I have accumulated a forge and an anvil and some hand tools. I have played around a couple of times with my home forge. I went to North Wilkesboro’s Apple Festival this October with the sole intent on forging a small knife. This is a two fold mission for me. Learning some tips from a skilled bladesmith and supporting Resilience Forge. Resilience Forge was started and is ran by Kyle Gahagan and helps wounded soldiers by giving them a feeling of accomplishment. I got teamed up with Masterbladesmith Burt Foster, who gave me a lot of hands on tips it may have taken a long time to learn on my own. I had the time of my life. My family said I was like a kid out there. It was a great time.