Tag: Knifemaking
How The Pros Coat Their Knife Blades
ESEE knives receive the Textured Powder Coat at Rowen Mfg. (Rowen Mfg. photo)
A coated blade offers protection, non-glare and striking looks. For those...
Malaysian Men Of Steel
Lim Loong Hoi hammers steel in his old school knife shop in Selangor, Malaysia. (photo courtesy of Philip Lim Chin Guan)
Every morning, Lim...
Ron Lake’s Tab Lock: The Clever Lever
When Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall-Of-Fame© member Ron Lake devised the interframe design and gave the world of knives another standard of innovation and...
How Individual Makers Can Tap New Markets
In the November BLADE®, “Unsheathed” outlined the Custom Knife Collectors Association/Jerry Fisk Cutlery Challenge and its potential for tapping new knife markets. Since then,...
How to Make a Sword
by Don Fogg
The time is right for a new age of swords. It is not the need for weapons that stimulates this resurgence, but...
How to Forge Damascus
Today there seems to be a damascus maker on every corner, and the opportunity to learn to forge damascus is available to almost anyone....
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...
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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...
