longhunter

I got to see it up close it's nice !!

Hollon , Track of the Wolf has all kinds of parts, kits, books & video. I recommend Peter Alexanders book The Gunsmith of Grenville Co its spiral bound book goes into detail on building muzzle loaders nice color pics . Also Cabin Creek owned By Brad Emig has forged rifle barrels in the past not sure if he still does or not. He is great to deal with I got parts from him for my rifle

Nice sheath like your idea is your mini kit just for fire starting or do you have other toys in there ? Intresting

That looks handy like what you did with what you had available . That wood looks neat overall a good functional knife. I wouldnt mind having it myself. My wife on the other hand would point to my desk drawer and ask me if I dont have enough knives and I would have to say no honey :)

Very nice you did a great job like your design and finish work

You've done a great job on that shovel

Havn't made one but I bought one of Beaver Bills and he use's 5160 steel 1/4" its sorta my multi purpose tool thrower ,meat cleaver , chopper and it hold's a edge well

Ive witnessed some pretty nasty burns not from blacksmithing but from my work. My partner was danceing around yelling to help him get his boot off ! We use silver solder to put cross over tubes in the gas tanks and it hadnt cooled and solidified when he flipped it over to put it on the rack it went right down the side of his boot burned a over a Quarter sized spot off his ankle of course he was wearing shorts at the time. The Green weld ankle lenght apron's came to be worn then

Very nice ! ? how did you go about getting the chain ready for this knife ?

Looks real nice you should give it to me and i'll try it out for ya !

Metals can be found scrap yards public sale's and flea markets can have a variety of metals worth scrounge up

Looks real good for your first one

Glad your doing better . Your knife looks great ! can I borrow it just for till hunting season is over them rabbits are big ?

Woody sent you a PM

I was looking at some old hand held mason drills you hit with a hammer and if I could get some cheap enough I would pic a few up to make some other usefull item out of them . Anyone know what type steel was used to make these ?

Like Finnr I like the your finger cut out nice knife

I like it very nice !

I have the same issue, think they must have had some puter problems

I wouldnt change the handle looks great the way it is

That could be a good thing hopefully there will be some more people chime in on this idea

I belive your friends will be very happy with those!! very nice

Highlander I havn't tried forge welding yet I have seen it done several times it looks easy when someone else does it> that means I'll mess it up. Canuk the hoof pick is made from a horse shoe glad you like it and the cross . I think the wife has ideas of making Christmas presents for some of her horse riding friends .

Hopefully someone here that is close to you will give you some help and may let you visit and teach you. A local blacksmith group if there is one around you would be a good place to make some contacts and maybe there will be some good used tools and gear you can start out with.

as stated above email went unanswered

Has anyone delt with these folks recently ? I cant get a person to ansewer email or phone and voice mail is filled up cant let a message . Anyone know if the are away or are they going under ?