ScarredKnuckles Posted June 1, 2017 Share Posted June 1, 2017 I just wanted to say hello. I'm 38 years old from Nova Scotia, Canada. I've never forged anything, but I've been cutting blades out of old saw blades and whatever scrap metals I could find since I was around 10. I'm looking to get started in forging as a hobby for now. I would like to make blades eventually. Cheers, Kevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 1, 2017 Share Posted June 1, 2017 Welcome aboard Kevin glad to have you. Check out the regional organizations section near the bottom of the Iforge opening page for a local blacksmithing organization. There are a number of Iforge members from your general neck of the woods. Every hour you spend with an experienced smith is worth many hours, days even of trying to figure it out yourself. If you've been making stock removal knives those are skills sets you won't have to learn. Before you start forging blades learn the basics of forging. You'll make mistakes and reduce steel to less than scrap, we all did and do. If you don't have a lot of time invested in a project it makes it easier to learn the lesson and try again. Iforge has extensive archives of posts organized by subject much written by seriously accomplished folk. If you can come up with a question that hasn't been answered repeatedly I'll be REALLY surprised. We LOVE pics here, projects, shop, equipment, tools, scenery, well everything you'd show a youngster. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 2, 2017 Share Posted June 2, 2017 Have you read "Step by Step Knifemaking" David Boye? He was very much into making knives cut out of sawblades and has sone neat tricks in it for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScarredKnuckles Posted June 2, 2017 Author Share Posted June 2, 2017 13 hours ago, ThomasPowers said: Have you read "Step by Step Knifemaking" David Boye? He was very much into making knives cut out of sawblades and has sone neat tricks in it for that. I have not, I will try to find it. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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