#knifemaking #katana Forging a katana out of Rusted steel SPRING. This is probably our longest project. We decided to make a ...

Artisans in Toledo, Spain, have been famous for their fine steel swords since the fifth century BC. But mass production and a lack of demand are threatening the hand-forged sword industry. We visited ...

The carefully flaked edge on a stone axe, the patterned blade of a hand-forged sword, the dappled bare steel of prewar bodywork. Mankind is a tool-making species, though the complexity of the tools we ...