1. “Eet will keel!”

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2. Never knew what a panabas was, or that I really need one until I saw that show.

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   1. The Blade Wish List is getting somewhat long.

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3. After watching that show for a while I decided to look into what it would take to actually make a forge and stuff and learn. It’s INSANELY EASY. I spent like 8 dollars for a bag of charcoal and then used old junk for everything else.

   You CAN forge a knife with nothing but an old propane grill (with the racks/propane pipe things/reinforced bottom with bricks), tubular steel that use to be apart of my child hood swing set, a leaf blower (already had that but if you get electric, they aren’t expensive, and a piece of I beam I had lying around.

   Really the only difficulty i had was getting the air flow right so I could get the entire blade up to quenching temp at the same time. At first I had the airflow wrong so only about 4 or so inches of blade was heated up to the right amount at once, and I kept trying to get it all heated up to the right amount but all I ended up doing was sequentially heating half the knife up while cooling off the other.

   I’ll admit its not a professional set up or anything but for messing around in the back yard it’s pretty awesome.

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4. Mayor Khan would soil himself if he saw some of the stuff SCA/HEMA guys build in their basements and/or garages.

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5. Yup, you can make a small forge out of a coffe can some vermiculite and a propane torch….America, armed with a dangerous mind.

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6. Whot if ‘e has a pointy stick ???????

7. Lindsay Publications printed a series of books by David Gingery describing how to build a machine shop starting from a charcoal furnace fed with scrap aluminum. So aluminum castings rather than iron ones for the major parts. Lindsay closed down a couple of years ago, unfortunately, but various of his books are still available. There is “gingerybooks.com” for example.

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