A Damascus knife is forged using 100 steel springs, demonstrating the transformation of industrial materials into a functional blade. The springs are heated, flattened and layered to form a billet ...

This video highlights the process of forging a Damascus knife from a steel bearing. Damascus steel is known for its ...

Custom knife makers wear their passion for fine steel on their sleeves. Actually, they wear it under their sleeves where their skin bears burn marks from hand forging steel blades. Arkansas is a ...

ATHOL – Relentless as the hammer on his anvil, Ray Rantanen chased down an elusive hobby through noisy, smoke-smudged days until he forged himself into a master craftsman. Now, after 30 years of trial ...

In a sunlit workshop nestled in the rolling hills of Southern California, a unique artistry unfolds daily, marked by the rhythmic clang of hammer against steel. This is the world of Dave Ellis, the ...

In 1973, blade smith Bill Moran created a sensation among knife enthusiasts worldwide when he revived the lost art of forging Damascus steel, an alloy prized by sword smiths during the Middle Ages ...

“Forging soul into steel” — that’s the motto of artist blacksmith and bladesmith Owen Bush. Working out of his forge in Welling, Kent, Owen lives out his passion for hot working of metals. A nicely ...

REDDING — The craftsman hunched over his bench. With jeweler’s magnifying glasses, he inserted a micro pin into the body of a $2,500 folding knife. Aaron Wilburn, the master behind the name Wilburn ...

For hundreds of years, some of the keenest minds searched in vain for the secret of how blacksmiths in the ancient Middle East fashioned a tough and flexible metal known as Damascus steel. The metal ...