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Wow, those Willis hawks sure are nice. I've got 10 more ball peen heads at least, maybe 15. It'll be a bit before I get to them, but I definitely have more planned in the future.

Finished the hawk and a blacksmith knife today.

tarted from a ball peen about 16 oz, USA stamped. Forgot that my phone was plugged in, but I got a few pics later in the process. Here it is after some of the Blade was beginning to be forged out, right before I started drifting the eye. A bit more forging... Forged to shape all but the...

The Texas Knifemakers' Guild is still very much alive and well, although we don't use this forum much at all. Look us up on Facebook, as that's our most interactive platform. Our website works as well, www.texasknifemakersguild.com Thanks, Jason Fry President, Texas Knifemakers' Guild.

You guys may have seen my recent thread about my power hammer build. Before I built that, I welded this three layer billet by hand. 15n20 outside over a 1084 core. This small Bowie is just shy of 11 inches overall. The handle is ringed gidgee from Australia.

So this happened... Hope some of y’all can stop by.

Understand. Looking at 65 tables or so. Jantz, TX Farrier, and Terry Dunn will be there also.

Are you going to come to the Lone Star Expo?

I've just begun venturing into making my own Damascus. This was my second billet, 160 layers of random pattern 1080 and 15n20. I rounded out the knife with polished stainless fittings and some dark giraffe bone on a fileworked frame handle. OAL is 9 1/2" or so. I'll have this knife and...

Here's a project I've been working on off and on for several weeks. It started as a leaf spring from a wrecked Dodge truck. It is styled after a Confederate artillery short sword, which is very similar to a cutlass or a giant D-guard Bowie. Overall length is 25" with a 20" blade, and sanded...

Milestones don't pay the bills ;) I just finished 6 months of making two house payments, and I've got four kids. I like making stuff more than I like collecting stuff, anyhow.

Over the years I've used other folks' Damascus steel quite a few times. This blade is the first one from my own Damascus. This is 21 layers of Aldo's original 1084 and some 15n20. The guard is wrought iron wagon rim that belonged to my great great grandfather, George Kromer. The handle is...

I used the coin as the spacer in between the guard and wrought spacer. I ground it down to the profile of the other fittings, then used a checkering file.

Here's the latest from my shop, the first knife of 2017. The steel is forged W2. The guard is wrought iron from the first railroad into Dallas in 1872. The wood is spalted sycamore from the grounds at the Texas Capitol. The coin is an 1836 half dollar, the year Texas won her independence from...

I just got pictures back from Johnny Stout of a knife I did a few months ago. It was intended to go to Governor Abbott (of Texas) to celebrate the passing of HB1935 which legalized bowie knife carry. Unfortunately hurricane Harvey literally rained on our party, so we haven't closed the deal...

Back nearly ten years ago when I began the knifemaking journey, I was fascinated by the idea of making a knife from something special, not just from stuff you could buy on Ebay. While I've purchased a zillion dollars worth of supplies since then, the fascination for "story" never left. I'll...

I know I'm late to this thread, but I wanted to second Ed's assertion that the mortar around the burner will crack. I've moved my forge a few too many times, between a couple of hammer-in's and a legitimate move to a new shop, and as such, mine was all kinds of cracked in that area. I then...

Was fortunate to sell this one at the show, but not before I was able to have Caleb Royer shoot it.

I agree, I try and keep the belt mostly on the guard, and let the wood do its own thing. I also shape the handle on the platen vertically, with the tip of the knife up, so that the guard is the first thing the belt hits. I only run the belt perpendicular to the handle late in the process, with...

I haven't done a rasp knife in at least 6 years, finding the heat treatment inconsistent enough to not be worth messing with very often. When I first saw Robert Belcher's Carvex Texas Flag scales, I knew it would take a big knife to do them justice, and this is what I came up with. The 14"...