• 'After the failed attempt at cold forging a shallow gouge, I decided that it was time to turn up the heat.' Dave Budd shares how to make great tools from old handsaws.

  • Pt 3 -  Making and fitting the handle. Since I don’t use factory made drifts to shape the eyes of my tools, they don’t take [...]

  • Ok, now we have a lump of steel with a hole in it. Time then to turn it into an adze. (Link to part one) [...]

  • Making an Adze by Dave Budd Most folks that have seen me forging only get to see me making twiddly little things or a knife [...]