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Sorry Tony, I fully intended to drop you a message after I posted the thread up. Then I forgot! oops. If I find anything else flingy, then I shall be sure to (try and remember to) tell you first ;) I think I've still got some homemade throwing axes and a cold steel spike somewhere Mike and...

the faces of the hammer are dressed to create the right shape dent when married with the anvil face, so yes it is a specific hammer for the job. Also, sod's law says that if you just grabbed a random hammer when needed, you would only find a chewed up lump hammer and a tiny tack hammer!

Funnily enough, that was my first thought too! :D

hahaha love it! It's a scythe peening anvil and hammer set. Somebody has decided to bolt them together so they don't lose the bits when the put them down

Haha, sorry there aren't. They were prototypes that i thought about making, but never got around to. I'll be making some shiny new throwing knives in the next month or so, but they will be full price of course.

I've been clearing out a shed that collapsed a few years ago and found a bucket full of throwing knives and things in it. I've not thrown a knife (on purpose) in years, so offering them here. Since they were in a bucket of water for a few years, there has been, ahem, a little rusting and...

From memory cold steel did some decent low cost ones, but it must be 20 years since i looked! A bif of mild with a point on the end will do, if you dont mind straightening them. Look online for metal suppliers, even ebay. Something like 30x6mm would be good.

well, some are ;) Through out the last few thousand years of iron swords in Europe they have been made from a single bit of iron with hammered edges, iron core with steel edges, laminated/twisted core (normally iron and steel) with steel edges, and for the largest part of the time just a...

big ol' can of worms there! A big knife is more difficult to make than a small knife, both physically (more metal to move/grind) and technically (warpages, etc), but a sword is entirely different beast. Swords aren't just big knives, though some are closer than others; they have different...

Assuming that you plan to glue the leather to the tang, then that is the moisture barrier. Steel, then glue, leather, glue, wood is the normal order from tang outwards. In use, the leather would absorb moisture and would swell (giving a ridge above the tang/scale or potentially rot from...

yep, same here. Even if I don't find out until the day before, I will still be there! :)

It reminds me of one of those skrama knives, maybe look at buying one of those strwight out? Or when the lock down is done, come on a coirse and make yourself one

Not worth the effort. Not only would you need to go through the pre-heat and post heating for the welding (as well s the right rods preferably), but the hea treating of the blade would be knackered so would need the whole thing re hardening and tempering. Just buy a new one

As broch says, but a single normaliseg (not tempering) probably won't do it as the welding really does do a number on the metallurgy and metalography of the steel. More detail about what you plan to weld woyld be useful for any advice given. For example is it stainless or carbon?

it's amazing what tools are sitting in people's sheds and can be turned into knives/tools with very little work ;) The saw I used in that article did have induction hardened teeth, but not all modern saws do (granted you will need to pay more than a few quid for one new though!). In the past...

Cut the log a few ibches longer than needed. A froe is your best bet, but even a long blade like a cleaver or parang will do to get a straight split across. Radially split the logs, its easiest to half the billet each time rather than working around like a clock (the split is less likely to run...

:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao: Yeah right! And the kimd and generous government will look after us as they always do!

There are so many people all trying to register for it at the same time, that the system keeps crashing. I got UC for a while some years back and it wasn't worth the effort for the little i got; then the hassel/farce/'owed repayments' when i stopped it mafe the whole affair more of a nightmare...

cheers. Luckily I'm used to having no money and I'm very good at budgeting what there is. As long as things start to get back to normal before the autumn I'm sure I'll be OK. I'm just glad I don't have any kids or other dependants to worry about!

the only thing i'm buying is food. With shows cancelled and people not able to come to me for courses, my income has almost totally dried up; so no new toys or treats for me. Normally at this time of year I would also be looking at restocking on steel and fuel, but since I can't get anywhere to...