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Pricking irons are not a substitute for awls... They are to mark the leather (as with an overstitch wheel) , not to punch through it. (they're also too expensive to do that to them!) You're right about the groover & edger; you can use a pricking iron with a groover, but I don't bother...

I've got something similar, but it requires a PCB lightbox & developer to make the stencils. I use them with an electro-etch unit I built. Those sound interesting, particularly with the lack of developer needed.

Liberon black polish also works well for resist.

There's a traditional Japanese polishing brush made from horsehair - you get a large bundle (preferably tail, but I've made shorter ones with mane) and whip the length of the bundle with string. Then you use it to apply a pumice/water slurry to non-ferrous metals for a dull polish, particularly...

Go with Roger's kit list - shouldn't find there's too much different that you'll need. You'll have fun :)

Size 2 beveller is a good all-round choice; I use whatever stitch groover is handy; overstitch wheel - well, for starting off, I'd probably advocate a 5 (less sewing). It's appropriate to heavier-use goods, which a knife sheath probably will be. The standard Tandy-style stitch groovers are...

Yes, and yes. Not expensive, and some of the members-only articles are extremely good.

Manchester Minerals sell soapstone for carving - http://www.manchesterminerals.co.uk (60p/100g) I thought that Craft Supplies carried it for turning, but their site says otherwise. Might be worth giving them a ring anyway.

Tiffers over on BB has recommended using black gloss radiator paint rather than pitch in the past. Non-toxic, remains slightly flexible and doesn't dissolve at the first touch of something with a more exciting alcohol content. Added - may have misremembered things - definitely gloss...

Yeah, they need a moderate size piece. Might be worth trying an Australian strander - you work from the outside in. Failing that, send me the stuff & I'll see what lace I can get out of it for you? (Not that I'd want to act as any deterrent to tool acquisition!)

What tool are you using?

I can probably make it.

I burnish the wax in with a scrap of brown paper. When the brown paper gets saturated with wax, it goes in the tinder pouch. (And the brown paper is usually stuff I've reclaimed from packaging anyway!)

And saltpeter/saltpetre is potassium nitrate, not potassium aluminium sulphate. (Or potassium aluminum sulfate :) )

Wayne Goddard's "$50 Knife Shop" has a chunk on using granite as an anvil too.

Looks fine from here. No evidence of a hack.

It's a very good DVD - although I did fast forward some of the realtime forging aspects - heat, bash, bash, bash, back to the fire, repeat...

Edgekote (bleh) or dye very carefully applied with a brush. Alternatively, see how dark the edges burnish?

A thick cork mat?

Argh. Teach me to work from memory in random moments... Yes, if you're working with the cube of radius, you're ending up with volume. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.