Bought an anvil from harbour frieght and pounded out a couple knives over the last couple weeks. It has been a really easy way to spend a saturday afternoon and days off here and there. So far it has been pretty easy hobby to get into, made a forge out of some bricks i had laying around and used a little charcoal and downed limbs for heat. so far so good, but now what? should I grind the blades down before heat treating or after? I am thinking after but wondering how you guys do it. And also how do you guys heat treat? There are some videos on youtube that I just found but none are all that great, is there any "how to" vids you guys and or gals can recommend?
any help would be great and i will try to figure out how to post some pics in case anyone cares to see the progress.
any help would be great and i will try to figure out how to post some pics in case anyone cares to see the progress.