LEX Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 Hello all i'm new here, my interest lies in sword & knife smithing as well as armorsmithing. i am one of thoes L.A.R.P. (Live Action Role Play) geeks and enjoy making gear for myself and others. thanks LEX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Sells Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 Welcome to I Forge Iron. Swords are not a good place to start, especially when you are looking at any contact. even controlled. Stating with basic smithing skills, then small blades such as knives you can get to swords after a while. Also plan to stop in for our live knife chat at 10pm Eastern time every Friday night here in our IFI chat room. we have some beginners as well as advanced blade makers there, and the chats are edited for off topic content then re-posted in the knife section of the forum with a tag including the date of that chat included in the thread title, so those that miss a chat, can read and post comments about it later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 Welcome aboard Lex, glad to have ya. Like Steve says starting out making blades isn't the surest nor fastest route to successful bladesmithing. On the other hand you didn't mention how much experience you do have, only that it's where your interests lay. Frosty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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