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Beautiful knives and awesome photos Caleb. I always love Don's work as well as your own. One question though.... just exactly what the heck is "Amber-colored Premium Natural Material"? :confused2: Chris

I had an absolute blast today at the Heartland Bladesmithing Symposium. I only hope I can remember at least half what I learned! Sorry, I didn't get any photos Justin. A great big thank you to MS Steve Culver​, MS Brion Tomberlin​, MS Jim Crowell, MS John Perry, MS Ray Kirk, MS Dr. Dan Peterson...

Thanks guys! Chris

I meant to post this up a while back. I hope to see a bunch of people there! Chris

Well... I finished my prototype! Now to start on the real thing. Chris

I finally finished up my first slip joint! I have to say that Steve Culver's tutorials were monumental in helping me achieve this. 3" blade, 3 3/4" closed, 1080 blade and back spring, 410 liners, 416 pins and G10 scales. Not sure I'm quite sold on the sage green scales, but it was what I had on...

I made a couple friction folders about a year ago, but that is it. Chris

Heat treated some 1080 in my redneck forge. Working on my first slipjoints. Ready to start fitting them together. Chris

Getting started. Ready for HT. Left a little more than a bit extra size. Was scared of the back springs warping or doing something funky. Now to start making pieces fit together. Chris

Holy $&*! that is quite a list you added me in on! Congratulations again on voting membership. I too found it a pleasure to meet you along with many others I consider idols. I only wish you and some others had the chance to make it over to John's house for some after hours visiting. I completely...

So being a business major, what % of start ups do your textbooks claim to fail? 80%, or higher? How many variables are you dealing with in your scheme that your textbooks claim to cause this high failure rate? Do you realize that forcing yourself into this will very likely destroy your passion...

I hate to be the pessimist, but with 2 total posts on KD(both in this thread), no photo examples of your work, and posing the business question in "New to Knifemaking", I'm going to go out on a limb and say you aren't ready. As the other, more experienced gentleman have alluded to, it is work...

Looking good Justin. I need to get an anvil tracked down... I've been wanting to do some forging myself. Chris

Well, not everyone. All I've finished so far is the drawing! :nothing: Chris

I say go for it John. A kitchen knife in all probability will see more use than most anything else. I would be proud to have a kitchen knife made by you. Chris

I think that is just how the ABS does it. I know the Heartland Bladesmithing Symposium in Topeka has 2 demos going on at the same time all day long. Chris

I'm going to try and get ambitious with my KITH entry this year. I have been wanting to do a slipjoint for quite a while now and I just need to do it. Here are my sketches. Worst case scenario, I have some fixed blades in AEB-L heat treated and ready for handles if this project goes south. Chris

This was my table set up last weekend. Traffic was quite a bit better than my first show, but the sales weren't. The thing that surprised me the most was the knife that had the most looks out of all of them on the table, was the oldest knife and in my opinion the worst knife on the table. Of...

They were both on the end of the row along the far west side. Karl had sold out before we got there so I didn't get to see anything he brought. Unsure about the attendance, seemed to be a good flow of traffic though. Chris

John, thank you for having us over. I had a great time visiting even if the other party poopers couldn't make it!:biggrin: Chris