Tag: Knifemaking
How to Create Damascus Patterns
How to Make Basic Patterns
The layer counts are only a starting point and you may find that you prefer more or less. In specialized...
How to Make a Basic EDC Knife – From Start to Finish
by Wayne Goddard
The One-Brick Forge
The one-brick forge I created started out with one brick and proved to be incredibly useful. As I learned more...
How to Make Better Bolsters
by John Lewis Jensen
First Steps Toward a Beauty of a Bolster
Because my work is so complicated, my first step is to draw and refine...
How to Make a High-Tech Folder
by Allen Elishewitz
There are many methods to build a knife and there is no wrong way to do it. You can use anything from...
Jon P. Moore shows how to stain curly maple wood knife handle
This is a "how to stain curly maple wood" tutorial, Jon P. Moore shows what stain to use, how to prepare the wood and...
Best method to stabilize wood handles?
This helpful conversation is excerpted from a thread on a previous version of blademag.com. It's posted here for reference.
Bear Goode:
What is your preferd method...
Knifemaking: How to Get a Mirror Polish?
This thread is from a previous version of blademag.com.
Here's a question from a BLADE reader:
I've been having trouble getting a mirror finish on my...
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Knifemaking 101 – Read This Before You Make a Knife
by Wayne Goddard
My experience has taught me that there's nothing like digging in and getting started. I've often said the hardest part of the...
