I’ve mentioned before that I did woodworking in one form or another for some 40 years before getting into blacksmithing. I had not ...

I read an article a few days ago in which the author detailes a list of things he wished he had learned earlier.  It started me thinking...

This illustrates another version of forming hot collars.  If the project calls for a number of nearly identical collars, test collars ca...

I did a web search for the Francis Whitaker hot collar formula.  It is illustrated in his “Blacksmith’s Cookbook” and I’me heard many pe...

This topic came to mind while making some long shank shoe spoons.  After fullering the blade some of the pieces had a slight offset of ...