This page links various pages that cover metal working techniques and processes. Click on the hyperlink below. There may be links to other sites that include useful information and if you have suggestions or links that you think should be included email me.

Forge Welding

Damascus Steel

• Pattern development

• Straight laminates

• Mosaic

• Contrasting Steels

• Etching

Katana class

• Forging the sword blade

• Making a Sen (Japanese scraper)

• Heat treating the swords

• Sword finishing

• Making a tsuba

• Making Shitodomi

• Tying the knot

Sharpening

• Setting the Angle

• Stropping

• Maintaining your knife

Grinding and finishing

• Making Fuller Grooves

• Cleaning up the grooves

• Fitting up scales with inletting ink

Heat treating definitions

• Alloying elements

• Simplified heat treating explanation

• Water Hardening

• Houghton on Quenching 3meg PDF file published by Houghton with lots of good information

• Practical Data for Metallurgists provided by Timken

• Boiling and the Leidenfrost Effect a good essay explaining vapor jacket phase of quenching

• Analysis of water and oil quenched clay coated blades by Robert Nichols on samples provided by D Fogg

Dagger Construction

• Forging a dagger

• Grinding a dagger

• Quillions

• Handle Fitting

Making Steel with Louis Mills

Making Steel with Ric Furrer

The Wootz Process by Richard Furrer republished with the permission of Richard Furrer

Making a Bowie Image gallery of the steps in constructing a Bowie

Making Stag Shiv

Lockback Session Private class given by Alex Daniels on making lock back folders

Cutting Dried Bamboo bundles 

Cloud Cutter

Jim Kelso's Moth Tutorial (pdf) from www.thecarvingpath.com forums

Blacksmithing Techniques

Jonathan Nedbor making tongs at the New England School of Metalworking

Brian Brazeal making a slitting hammer

Peter Ross Calipers at New England School of Metalworking

Temperature Conversion Calculator