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.