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For several years now I have made knife from old HC or WHC marked railroad spikes. I have sold these knives with the understanding they make okay knives not good knives due to the lack of carbon. After purchasing a Hardness Rockwell C Tester, my story is changing. The blades are forged...

I have no ideal how many of these I have made now. Seems every time I am free some customer drags me back in. A batch of 8 total. This is 5 that I finished. I have the others in the blank drawer for the next request... The focus of the photo is on the cases. I am writing an artical on...

I picked up forging in high school back in 1982. I made a pile of tractor equipment pins for folks. After high school I layed the skills aside. Some 25 years later I picked it up again in attempt to make a Rail Road Spike knife. A champion 400 blower, 15 gallon barrell and a car rim made my...