Water Cooled Quench Plates Project

Quench plates are a fantastic tool for the heat treating of knife blades. If you’ve read my posts on How to plate quench or the various heat treatment guides for popular knife steels, this is essentially an extension of those.…

Anthony won 2nd place at the inaugral KZN bladesport event

My 5160 Competition Chopper

The North Coast Knifemaking Club undertook to host the first-ever Bladesports cutting competition event in KZN in September 2019. Bladesports, probably thanks to History Channel’s popular series “Forged in Fire” and “Knife or Death”, is taking off around the world…