Some folks will forge these out of a block of steel . I prefer a quicker and cheaper method. To make my hatchet or tomahawk, I draw out a...

I decided I needed some new cooking tools for my fire pit. I ended up getting talked out of my older ones by someone. I looked around the...

Pattern welded Damascus for knife making is made from two types of material forge welded together. Using high heat and fluxed with borax...

Damascus steel that has been hammered together is different from the traditional Damascus crucible steel called wootz. Pattern welded...

A customer had an unusual request. He had seen a picture of the Lichtenberg burning process and wanted to see if it could be replicated...

I start off with a piece of round bar stock that I keep on hand. Square bar stock is fine too. Doesn't matter because I'm practically a...

Although I didn’t have anyone to operate the camera when I cast my first gun part, I did have someone handy to film the first test run of...

In an earlier blog series, I outlined how I built a foundry furnace and cast a replacement hammer for a broken antique shotgun. This is...

Unfortunately for this part of casting I was alone. I didn’t have anyone present to operate the camera while I was pouring the part. But...

This may seem to be an oversimplification, but I built a small wooden cart to roll around the furnace outside where I’d be casting my gun...

This is NOT a a step by step tutorial for building your blower, but to show you how I did it and what worked for me. I started off with...

I decided that I needed to start making some obsolete gun parts that I couldn’t find anywhere else. Sometimes you get an older antique...

Making roses out of black iron or copper