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My handmedown anvil, it came from my fathers ranch, that got it in the 50s from the town blacksmith, I'm thinking early 1900s or late 1800s. And my crappy first attempt at a knife from leaf spring. The base is a mud tire filled 75% with rock, a plastic feed drum placed on that, and the drum filled with a mix of sandstone, limestone, sandy loam and topped of with pea gravel and a board for a flat area. Its odd and its mine so I love it.

My Chiminea mesquite fueled forge, its temporary till my other forge is finished. This was used to heat and quench a single blade. I love mesquite so much, my 1.99 hair dryer blower and a little bit of scavenged exhaust pipe tubing, and of course a quench bucket.

Yeah, I'm already about 15 pages into the verhoeven metalurgy pdf. I've been gathering tools for a while, I have an anvil from my fathers ranch, which came from the town blacksmith, that same blacksmiths portable forge, hammers from my grandfather, and lots of leaf springs from several years of building and breaking 4x4s. I'm starting very simply with leaf spring steel knives, I have made one so far, and after quenching it, tapped it with my hammer to straighten and made a significantly shorter knife. I tempered and then sharpened it and can chop rope like celery now. Its ugly as sin but seems to work. I need to learn a whole lot more though.

Howdy Guys I'm from Texas and I'm new here. I'm at the very very begining stages of knife making, and want to learn. I am a a few months into leather working and will be starting wood working for my knife handles and leather accessories as well. I'll be quiet for a while to gauge what I dont know. Thanks.