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Forging Cable Damascus


- Featuring Kim Breed and Daniel Prentice.  Directed by Gary Wheeler.

In this no nonsense video Kim Breed and Daniel Prentice show you how to forge your own cable damascus!  Kim and Daniel cover the basics of forge welding cable damascus using both a Little Giant trip hammer as well as the procedures on how to do it by hand.  Kim begins the video with larger stock and the use of the power hammer and then Daniel follows with doing the same procedures with smaller stock and on a regular anvil. 

This video explains all of the steps in making cable damascus; including tips and tricks, flux, twisting, and more...


DVD - NTSC Format

Price = $30.00

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Forging Cable Damascus

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Wire Damascus with Wayne Goddard
Mosaic Damascus


Heat Treating Carbon Steel



Teaches: edge quench, full quench, selective heat treating, tempering, soft back draws, false edges HT, clay tempering, using a fire brick, quenchants, and more......

DVD - NTSC Format

Price = $30.00


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Heat Treating Carbon Steel

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Frontier style tomahawk


Forging the Clip Point Bowie



This video covers all of the steps required to forge a drop clip bowie by hand. There are no special tools needed other than a hammer, anvil, forge, steel, and some patience coupled with a desire to learn to forge blades!

The video includes. Planning, preperation, forging the point, clip, choil, and tang. They also discuss edge geometry, distal tapers, and correcting curvature problems during forging.

The video shows the process step by step!

DVD - NTSC Format

Price = $30.00


Forging the Clip Point Bowie


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All About Grinding





This video covers grinding for the beginner and intermediate knifemaker/Bladesmith. The video covers the use of 1x42, 6X48, and 2x72 belt grinders/sanders. 

The subjects of convex, flat and hollow grinds are covered in this video. This is a step by step procedure with shop tips and close-up of a hollow grinding jig that you can make yourself. 

Other material covered include: files, auto body grinders, disc sanders, marking center-lines and more...


DVD - NTSC Format

Price = $30.00

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All About Grinding


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