Would someone please recommend a couple of good DVDs which
show the basics of forging knives. I have purchased some but
they turned out to be either way above my expertise or
so poorly done they were useless. I have just started
forging and want to learn the basics right.
Thank You
Ron

What Do You Have Already?
Would Hate To Repeat,jim Hiroslus Has A Very Good One For Daggers .
What He Does W/ Gas You Can Do W/coal-charcoal.
Read Some Books They Make The Dvd's Click In Place!
Have Fun!:)

Ron, a mapquest search shows that the distance between us is:
Total Estimated Time: 2.0 hours 40 minutes
Total Estimated Distance: 154.89 miles

You are more than welcome to visit anytime! I am NO expert bladesmith, but I think I can get you started in some of the right directions.

Stan

Ron the best thing you can do now is learn the basics of smithing in general the opening page item called getting started would be a good beggining. Blades are better put off until you learn how metal moves under a hammer and the muscle memory skills required to do what it is on anything you wish to forge.

Ed Caffrey's basic bladesmithing is a great starter DVD. Also Wayne Goddards How to Forge a Cable Damascus knife, though it does cover forge welding it does cover the basics too.

I second Jim Hrisoulas' video it's GREAT!

Tim Lively's is really good:

Knifemaking Video DVD

It comes from the "neo-tribal" perspective; charcoal, unplugged, etc., but he moves real slow on the forging technique, so you do learn a lot from it.

Don