Outside Inside

Gil's interested in creating a forge. He wants to temper his knives but there's so much to consider.

How do you obtain the right steel, how do you get a really hot fire, how do you blow air on the fire?

On a different note, we've already been eating from the garden. Bok choy and swiss chard, yum!

And then there's the inside...

All my mess, representing lots of different projects, all being worked on at the same time.

New School Project

I don't think too many 17 year olds read my blog but I wonder how many could say, "I made a throwing knife at school today." He and dad went out the other evening and bought a bench grinder. It makes knife making so much easier, wonderful!!!

 

He couldn't wait to get outside and try it out.

My poor magnolia.

Gil says it's perfectly balanced and preformed beyond expectation.

It's made from a flat bar you can buy at the hardware store. I've asked Gilbert to maybe refrain from calling it a throwing knife when it comes time to record it in his homeschool journal, maybe instead calling it an artist knife. I don't know?