Updates & Musings
Forged Tomahawks
Now that I have a power hammer to work with, I've been forging a few tomahawks from ball peen hammers. I've got hammer heads from 12oz up to about [...]
Demonstration and Public Appearance October 13/14: Silver Spur Gun Show in Lubbock
I will be doing bladesmithing demonstrations at the Silver Spur Gun and Knife Show at the Lubbock Civic Center October 13 and 14. Demonstrations will be in the early afternoon, [...]
FIF Press Coverage: Front page of the Lubbock paper
I guess they were out of regular news, because they put a story about me on the front page of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal on Tuesday, 9/25/18. A link to the [...]
Forged in Fire Home Shop Tour
History Channel just posted a YouTube video of the shop tour I did as part of the Forged in Fire experience. The video also has a recipe from Spicy Mike [...]
Media appearances with KLLL- Jeff and Mudflap morning show
https://youtu.be/Tj_IN3RtBd0 Here's the post-showing interview. https://youtu.be/QZEQ6m1rB5E
Forged in Fire Season 5 Episode 26: Qinglong Ji
I am pleased to announce that I will be on Forged in Fire on September 4, 2018. I cannot release any other details at this time, but will post more [...]
Bowie Knife for Texas Governor
Back in September 2017, Texas passed a law legalizing the carry of certain knives that used to be illegal, including the Bowie knife. To commemorate the legalization of the iconic [...]
KTXS ABC News: More Knife Freedom
I was fortunate to be on the Abilene ABC station's 10:00 News on 9/15/17. I spoke about the knifemaking craft and about the recent change in Texas' knife laws. The [...]
How to build a frame handle knife WIP
Back in December of last year, for my 300th knife I built a frame handle hunter. I took work-in-progress pictures and posted the WIP on several forums. Today I realized [...]
How to checker a knife handle
I recently did a work-in-progress thread on several forums on how to do a checkered knife handle. The link to the WIP is below. http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1215059-Knife-handle-checkering-WIP Here is a picture of [...]