Cincinnatus

Great wedding gift but you may be right - you may be in hot water with the bride...

Great looking knife!

So this is my first project from my class that actually got hung up.  I made a hook for my wife to hang her keys on in the barn.  Nothing fancy but she really likes it.

BTW JHCC - nice card holder - I may have to "borrow" the design if you don't mind.

Nothing to critic - incredible work!

Neat idea and great work.

You will definitely want to clean up the primer/primer pocket/case.  Primer compounds vary but here is a list of chemicals in my Federal primers sitting on my bench:

Normal Lead styphnate

Barium nitrate

Antimony sulfide

Lead thiocyanate

I would guess in the height of WWII - they used what was the most efficient and reliable - not what was the cleanest.

Both knives look great - thanks for posting.

Incredible spiders - a little to life like.

Have you tried Pinterest?  Search for blacksmith projects and there are thousands of ideas.

Great video - thank you for posting.  As someone completely new to this I am just absorbing information and this helps!

Incredible work.  Thanks for sharing!

Thomas - thank you for the information, I will have to look those up.  Since Troy is an hour from me I will definitely put that on my calendar.

Hello,

My name is Mike and I am looking to learn as much as I can.  I live in southwest Ohio and keep myself busy with woodworking and beekeeping right now but after taking a welding course and a machinist course I am looking at metal working to maybe complement woodworking pieces.  I am signed up to take a course in blacksmithing and don't have anything set up yet but I figured this would be a great place to read about what works, what doesn't and ask questions.