Seems like every day there are brothers making their first knife and ask some very important questions. If you’ve ever been on my website you’ll see a statement that is the most important aspect of my knife making. “Heat treating is the heart of the knife, and the design is its soul. Once you fully understand this concept, then you will want to own a truly good knife.”
I’ve attached a link below to download a metallurgy free E Book; the most overlooked subject by many knife makers including long time knife makers that sell knives without having a clue what is actually going on inside the steel they are selling. The study of Metallurgy to knife making is as essential as a practicing doctor to have the required credentials to practice medicine.
Lately I’ve been seeing post on various metals and comments about Youtube instructional videos. I cringe at some of the CRAP I see Idiots post on Youtube; it makes me seriously mad that they THINK they know how to. They only know what they have been taught and 99% of the time they have been taught WRONG! A knife that has not been heat treated and tempered correctly is as good to use for a knife as a lid off a can of cat food! If you want to start making knives I encourage you to spend some time reading this excellent material. There are enough shade tree knife makers out there; if you want to start making knives why not it do correctly.
Most of the times we as knife makers want to put the cart before the horse and do it now; we want to take short cuts and by passing proper steps to insure the most optimum blade possible, I’m guilty of this myself. This is an E Book is just good starting point to help you further investigate the endeavor that many of us hold dear. I’m just offering my two cents; take it for what it’s worth.
I’ve helped and answered a lot of questions over the years to new knife makers; but this E Book is the most import information I can share.. and it’s free.
There is so much more to heat treating than rosebud heating to nonmagnetic and dunking in oil!
It’s wealth of information if you are serious about wanting to practice the art of knife making I encourage you to download it and read it as much as possible.
I’ve attached a link below to download a metallurgy free E Book; the most overlooked subject by many knife makers including long time knife makers that sell knives without having a clue what is actually going on inside the steel they are selling. The study of Metallurgy to knife making is as essential as a practicing doctor to have the required credentials to practice medicine.
Lately I’ve been seeing post on various metals and comments about Youtube instructional videos. I cringe at some of the CRAP I see Idiots post on Youtube; it makes me seriously mad that they THINK they know how to. They only know what they have been taught and 99% of the time they have been taught WRONG! A knife that has not been heat treated and tempered correctly is as good to use for a knife as a lid off a can of cat food! If you want to start making knives I encourage you to spend some time reading this excellent material. There are enough shade tree knife makers out there; if you want to start making knives why not it do correctly.
Most of the times we as knife makers want to put the cart before the horse and do it now; we want to take short cuts and by passing proper steps to insure the most optimum blade possible, I’m guilty of this myself. This is an E Book is just good starting point to help you further investigate the endeavor that many of us hold dear. I’m just offering my two cents; take it for what it’s worth.
I’ve helped and answered a lot of questions over the years to new knife makers; but this E Book is the most import information I can share.. and it’s free.
There is so much more to heat treating than rosebud heating to nonmagnetic and dunking in oil!
It’s wealth of information if you are serious about wanting to practice the art of knife making I encourage you to download it and read it as much as possible.
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