Ebook: Knife Talk 2 - The high perfomance blade

Krause Publications ., — 2003 . — 200 c . — ISBN 0-87349-564-0 Carving a huge following from his popular Knife Talk columns in BLADE magazine , Ed Fowler amasses a second volume of columns just as informative and exciting as the first . A veteran knife maker from Wyoming , Fowler presents 65 articles on such topics as function , design , and technique ; philosophy ; forging and heat-treating ; and the outside world . He also discusses industry legends , knife maintenance , the sheep horn style , how to grind blades , hardening vs . tempering , ball bearing steel