Welcome to my website, This section has been added to my page to let everyone know that I am away in the Airforce, and any messages I recieve will be answered as soon as I get back to a computer. New knife pics 1234 (so you don't have to search the whole site and exceed my data transfer limit trying to find them(making the website unavailiable for an hour)) Portable forge design
Be safe God bless you all, and you all are in our prayers.
Today, in our hurry-up world, we are all so willing to give up the quality in our lives just to have more. This is no more evident than in the world of knives and swords. Today's technology has made it possible to punch out, grind, and polish knives in a matter of minutes, instead of quality hand-forged knives and swords that take from 3 days up to six months to make. Through this process of mass producing that we are all soo eager to depend on, we've sacrificed quality in our lives to get the most we can for least effort and in the shortest amount of time, a quick fix. Everyone wants everything sooner, faster, cheaper, and more convenient. Now we are here running around in our lives making more and more to replace broken things instead of building things to last in the first place. Perhaps it would be wise to take a step back and see things form the view of those who did understand a honest days work. Let's take a look at what it takes to make a high quality knife that will last through a war perhaps? and then many lifetimes beyond.
I've been forging for the majority of my life, since about 5th grade or so. I started playing in a brushfire with a metal tube to blow with and a splitting wedge hammered into a tree stump with a little claw hammer. I have taught myself everything through trial and error, experimentation and through some very dear friends with a lot of patients. I am now forging on my own as a civil war reenactor. I am a member of the Caesar's Creek Pioneer Village where My wife and I reenact everything from everyday life to civil war battles. We have recently joined up with the 18 virginia and are reenacting with them where we are in the infantry and we teach blacksmithing to whom ever cares to learn.
Sweet Ladies Mercantile Period Clothing and Accessories Civilian, Gentlemen, Ladies & Children ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our supplier of Civil War period clothing and a very sweet lady. Jeanne has helped up out a lot when we first started out she also has a very large variety of clothing and other supplies.
These links were moved down here when the pictures contained on them made it impossible to view them with my 4 MB per hour data transfer limit. so if you open these you might make the website unavailiable if you do wait an hour then try again try to come back to the page u left off at so u avoid doing it all over again. i have been trying to cut the page size down but I have been busy with other things and I ahev decided to create a real website. so I will not be completely rennovating it.
