This video highlights the process of forging a Damascus knife from a steel bearing. Damascus steel is known for its ...

Custom knife makers wear their passion for fine steel on their sleeves. Actually, they wear it under their sleeves where their skin bears burn marks from hand forging steel blades. Arkansas is a ...

In a sunlit workshop nestled in the rolling hills of Southern California, a unique artistry unfolds daily, marked by the rhythmic clang of hammer against steel. This is the world of Dave Ellis, the ...

ATHOL – Relentless as the hammer on his anvil, Ray Rantanen chased down an elusive hobby through noisy, smoke-smudged days until he forged himself into a master craftsman. Now, after 30 years of trial ...

REDDING — The craftsman hunched over his bench. With jeweler’s magnifying glasses, he inserted a micro pin into the body of a $2,500 folding knife. Aaron Wilburn, the master behind the name Wilburn ...

In 1973, blade smith Bill Moran created a sensation among knife enthusiasts worldwide when he revived the lost art of forging Damascus steel, an alloy prized by sword smiths during the Middle Ages ...

What starts as a pile of worthless fishing hooks quickly turns into a high-risk forging experiment. Each hook is cleaned, stacked, and compressed under extreme heat to fuse into solid Damascus steel.

Leatherman has rolled out a limited edition take on one of its premium multitools, offering the typical functionality of its versatile implements but with a dash of Damascus steel. The Charge+ TTI ...

“Forging soul into steel” — that’s the motto of artist blacksmith and bladesmith Owen Bush. Working out of his forge in Welling, Kent, Owen lives out his passion for hot working of metals. A nicely ...

For hundreds of years, some of the keenest minds searched in vain for the secret of how blacksmiths in the ancient Middle East fashioned a tough and flexible metal known as Damascus steel. The metal ...