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This is a tour of my world, of the things I make. It is a simple website, no high-tech bells and whistles... I decided to concentrate on what is important to me: the inspiration, the idea, the design, the process and the product.

Follow the links on the left to get thoroughly lost, the site map, which is almost logical, or use the alphabetical index below. The links on the right are for pages that I have recently added or updated.
Pages are added as I get questions that need an answer. Updates are a haphazard process which depends on what I am making, if I remember to take photos, and reading each page to see if there are any errors or gaps that need filling.


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Alphabetical Index:
Most pages are listed under multiple headings to make searching easier; for example "Gun Blue" is listed under B (blueing) as well as G (gun blueing)

A

About
Alloys
Anvils
Art Knives (design of)
Art Knives (Products)
 

O

Ornamentation




 

B

Balance (in design)
Bibliography
Blacksmithing courses
Bladesmithing
Bladesmithing courses
Bladesmithing (forging a skinning knife)
Blueing
Bolsters (fitting)
Bone (jigged)
Bone (preparation of)
Bottom blast coal forges
Brass (properties)
Bronze (properties)
 

P

Principles (of design)
Patination
Post vise
Power tools
Products
Products (Art Knives)
Products (Folding Knives)
Products (Fixed Blade Knives)
Products (Jewellery)
Preparation of bone
Properties of Metals
Purpose (in design)

 

C

Caring for your knives
Casting
Coal Forges
Colour (in design)
Contact wheel diameters and height of grind
Courses
Cyanoacrylate
 

Q








 

D

Damascus
Designing a knife according to function
Designing a three-blade folder
Design inspiration
Design limitations
Design Tools
Doming pin heads
Drill press (squaring up table)
 

R

Rhythm (In design)







 

E

Elements (of design)
Embellishments
Emphasis (in design)
Engraver's vise
Evaluation (of completed knives)












 

 

S

Safety
Scale (How to remove)
Scrimshaw
Sculpture
Shape (in knife design)
Sharpness
Shop layout
Size (in knife design)
Sliplock folder (How to make a)
Sliplock folder (How to design a)
Space (in knife design)
Spinning pin heads
Squaring up a drill press table
Stabilizing handle materials
Steel
Sterling Silver (Definition)
Superglue
Surface grinding alternative
Sword (forging a sword)
 

F

Fittings (metals for)
Fitting bolsters on a fixed blade knife
Fixed Blade Knives (Products)
Folder Design
Folders (Products)
Forges
Forge welding
Forging a skinning knife
Forging a sword
Forging tools
Function (in design)
 

T

Techniques
Techniques (knifemaking)
Three-blade folder (Making a)
Tool making
Tools (hand)
Tools (jigs and holding)
Top Tips
Texture (in design)



 

G

General articles
Gun blue
 

U

Unity (in design)

 

H

Hand tools
Height of grind
Holding tools
Horn, working with
How to make a small side knife
How to make a sliplock folder
How to make a 3-blade folder
How to make mokume gane
How to remove scale
How sharp is sharp?
 

V

Value (in design)
Variations (in design)
Vise (engraver's)




 


 

I

Inspiration (in design)
In Stock

 

W

What is mokume gane?
What is sterling silver?
Working with horn
 

J

Jewelry
Jigged bone
Jigs and holding tools
 

X




 

K

Knife care
Knife design
Knife evaluation
Knifemaking
 

Y





 

L

Limitations (in design)
Line (use of in knife design)
 

Z



 

M

Making a small side knife
Making a 3-blade folder
Material selection
Materials
Melting points
Metal casting
Metals for fittings
Mokume Gane (definition)
Mokume Gane (how to make)
 

1, 2, 3, 4 ....

3-Blade folder (Making a)
5160 (steel)







 

N

 

 

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Full copyright applies to the contents of this website, unless otherwise stated. This applies to photographs, text, video clips and illustrations. End users of this product may make printouts of the instructions contain herein for personal use only.
Short excerpts may be published  in printed media or online for review purposes only.

This page last edited on Friday, 24 February 2012 
 

 

Alphabetical index

Please contact me if you need more information on any of the products or processes.

Pages recently added or updated

Forging a skinning knife
Grind height spreadsheet
Making a sliplock folder - photos added
Spinning pin heads
Making a 3-blade folder
Surface grinding alternative
Designing a three-blade folder
Art Knives (Products)
Fixed blade knives (Products)
Folders (Products)

 

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