Forged: Making a Knife with Traditional Blacksmith Skills

Forged: Making a Knife with Traditional Blacksmith Skills
ISBN-10
1733325026
ISBN-13
9781733325028
Series
Forged
Category
Blacksmithing
Pages
132
Language
English
Published
2020-10-30
Publisher
Artisan Ideas
Author
Paul White

Description

This book will teach you to hand build a knife using the traditional method of blacksmiths of old-FORGING. Traditional forging of a knife blade is a process which uses the ancient techniques of moving hot steel with hammer and anvil alone into a knife-form that is ready for filing, heat treating and sharpening with no or very minimal electric grinding. Almost anyone with basic hand tool aptitude can learn to make a knife by forging. Forging skills are not outside the average person's facility or capacity. Like so many things, it is an acquired ability. If this is a new encounter for you it will necessitate your swinging a hammer; not at a nail but at a piece of hot steel, learning and applying some ten or twelve blacksmithing techniques and secrets, and experiencing some trial and error. I have taught hundreds of men, women and a few children to do this and I am confident you can learn to do this too. As a wise man once said: "Life is trial and error, mostly error". I make errors every time I go to my anvil. So will you.This book also teaches traditional fit-and-finish skills with hand tools alone. It explains an ancient riveted full-tang handle construction system that surpasses modern methods. This book is designed for both first-time, back-yard beginner smiths and experienced knifemakers and any general blacksmiths in between wanting to build a knife using these ancient ways.In my early blacksmithing years, I was unbelievably lucky to get to know some old smiths who wrangled hot iron every day just to make a living. They unselfishly taught me traditional blacksmithing skills and knife forging methods. Every time I use those skills and methods, I honor their friendships, and by teaching you, the reader, we keep alive the memory of those old-time iron pounders.

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