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Kertzman

Sporting Knives, now in its 4th edition, covers the breadth of today's commercial sporting cutlery! Covering the breadth of today's commercial sporting cutlery, Sporting Knives 2005 includes folding, tactical, pocket, fixed, multi-tool, semi-custom, and fantasy knives from more than 60 companies such as Kershaw, Browning, Buck, Case, Columbia River, Knife & Tool Co., and Spyderco. Hundreds of factory-made sporting knives are arranged alphabetically according to manufacturer with each listing containing retail prices, knife specifications, features, styles, appropriate sheaths, handle components, and collaborating custom knifemakers. All-new feature articles and field reports from well-known experts cover the best and latest the commercial knife industry has to offer. Hundreds of clear black and white photos accompany not just up-to-date pricing information, but detailed information on the background history of knives and knife making companies. Presents all new feature articles and field reports from well-known knife authors and experts. An updated reference directory contains contact information for manufacturers of knifemaking supplies, organizations, and publications.

Softcover · 8½ x 11, 256 pages · 500 b&w photos

Item #: BK81

Outfitting a knifemaking shop doesn't have to cost a fortune and Wayne Goddard shows hobbyists how to do it on a budget. This book is well illustrated with great photos and detailed diagrams showing the design and construction of all the tools needed to make knives. Every knifemaker will want to learn how Goddard can create or acquire knifemaking supplies at almost no cost.

Goddard

156 pages, 8-1/2 x 11 (Paperback)

Item #: BK614

Chapman

Booklet shows how Gene Chapman builds his Mt. Man Folders.  Blacksmiths, bladesmiths and knifemakers will find this an invaluable addition to their reference library.  Over 100 photos and drawings show step-by-step construction of a "Times Gone By" masterpiece.  This folding knife can be built just like our forefathers woul have, without power tools.

40 pages, 8-1/2 x 11 (Paperback)

Item #: BK449

Foulkes

Written in 1912, this is still a classic that anyone interested in medieval and renaissance armour needs to have.  Line drawings, black and white photos depict men in armour, stuis of armour and objects related to the armour's craft.  There is a good-size glossary of armouring terms that includes several difference languages.

256 pages, 8-3/8 x 11-1/4 (Paperback)

Item #: BK137

Grafton

Over 750 detailed, high-quality illustrations from rare 19th-century sources:  suits of armor, chain mail, swords, helmets, knives, crossbows and other implements, along with scenes of battle, soldiers, horses, artillery and more.  Especially suitable for projects requiring a medieval or old-fashioned flavor, these illustrations will fill a myriad of needs for battle-related graphic art.

128 pages, 8-3/8 x 11-1/4 (Paperback)

Item #: BK138

Joe Kertzman
Pages: 256
8.25 x 10.875
350 color photos
Hardcover with jacket

Artistry At Its Best! Not One Knife is Unworthy. Every Photo Is Exquisite!

This is such a beautiful book! The photography is stunning showing clarity and detail. But this is more than a photo book. Packed full of information on the knifemakers and history on the knife presented. Truely done in the famous Dona Meilach coffeetable style metalworker have come to love. Art of the Knife showcases, in full color-color professional-grade photography, 500 of the world's finest art knives made. These are the artists' art knives-sculpted cutting machines embellished with scrimshaw, engraving, gold, precious stone inlays, carving and etching. It's a parade of pearl, ivory, mammoth tooth, damascus, silver wire, exotic wood, diamonds, rubies and more. It will definitely be a conversation piece when displayed on your coffee table as well as an inspiration for artists and knife makers alike. Page after page, Art Of The Knife delivers!

Item#: BK938

192 pages, 8-1/2 x 11 (Hardcover)

Good custom blades are a hard find, but The Complete Bladesmith will show you how to take a bar of steel and forge it into the blade of you dreams.

This guide to smithing world-classic blades is for the novice as well as the experienced bladesmith with this book you will be able to build you own forge, equip your workshop, choose your materials from the exotic to the mundane, and get to work.

Whether you want a survival blade, commando dagger, broadsword, tanto, or just a trustworthy utility knife, it’s all here. Enter the custom-blade world with an edge!

Item #: BK460

Chapman

This illustrated edition covers very interesting antique knives.  They are mostly handmade or reworked knives and edged tools which speak of the ingenuity of our forefathers.  Some were made by hands well experienced in forging and others are a bit of the rustic side but would have functioned as intended.  Country Knives will help collectors identify old knives, tools, their uses, and provide makers with fresh knifemaking ideas.

27 pages, 8-1/2 x 11 (Paperback)

Item #: BK452

164 pages, 7-1/2 x 10-1/2 (Hardcover)

This book takes the reader into the workshops of four of Japan’s leading sword craftsman. Each craftsman has a different role in the manufacture of a blade. The craft of the Japanese sword is the first book in English devoted entirely to contemporary sword manufacture, and will this be of enormous value to metal artists everywhere, as well as to collectors and students of weaponry.

Item #: BK465

220 pages, 7 x 9 inches, 180 illustrations (Paperback)

The helpful book demystifies the ancient art of bladesmithing for contemporary knifemakers.  Following chapters on tools, set up and sheathmaking, the book provides 10 projects of increasing complexity to lead either beginner or advanced metalworkers into this exciting discipline.

Item #: BK469

Peterson

Profusely illustrated, full-scale reference by a leading authority on edged weapons provides a clearly written historical analysis of the entire range of weapons used in hand-to-hand combat-from prehistoric flint knives and bronze daggers of 1000 B.C. to eared daggers of the mid-16th century and 19th-century British and American naval dirks.  An excellent resource for collectors as well as students of weaponry and warfare.  108 halftones.

90 pages, 6-1/8 x 9 (Paperback)

Item #: BK601

Temporarily out of print until Summer 2008.

Sashse

237 pages, 10-1/4 x 12-3/4 (Hardcover)

Item #: BK646

Schroen

The serious knife collector will find this book an interesting addition to his reference library.  Study of the book will enable the collector to evaluate and view a process that has been used throughout history in forging fine blades.  Schroen has, for the first time, developed a single book on bladesmithing which covers the forging, hardening, and tempering of every a category of tool and stainless steel used in modern bladesmithing.  Serve as a valuable instructional manual.

133 pages, 6 x 8-3/4 (Paperback)

Item #: BK648

35 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 (Paperback)

This book explains a more economical way of how to make chain mail along with the history of how it was used, originally made and its uses. The beginner is taught how to make a coat of chain mail with detailed drawings of how to "weave" the links and a basic lay out of how to make a shirt.

Item #: BK185

Barney/Loveless

Learn how with "the bible of knife-making."  Barney and Loveless give complete instructions on making high quality handmade knives.  Forging and stock removal, mirror polishing, sheath making, safety techniques, required tools and supplies and more.  Step-by-step information on making straight knives.  Tips from Bob Loveless, Bill Moran, Buster Warenski and Corbet Sigman.

182 pages, 8-1/2 x 11 (Paperback)

Item #: BK446

Collins

Detailed step-by-step instructions explain how you can enjoy practicing America's first art form includes information on basic scrimshaw techniques, scrimshaw tools and how to make them, preparation of the ivory, and a very useful page of tips on scrimshaw.  The heart of the book are the four projects that the author takes you through start-to-finish, with each step fully illustrated:  Making a pendant, Handgun Grips, Wood Duck on a Belt Buckles, and the obligatory Ship on a Whale's Tooth.  Illustrated with over 100 excellent-quality photographs.

45 pages, 7 x 10-7/8 (Paperback)

Item #: BK455

Chapman

Two knives, dag and adz are covered along with forging a copper guard and swaging it on the tang, Hafting the adz on an antler handle, building an antler saw from scratch, making a spring for a pocket sheath, using pitch, sinew and hide glues on handles, shop hints and a simple hot iron die used to forget a ribbed blade.  Iron Age Primitives is the seventh book in Champman's series on knives and metalcraft.

18 pages, 8-1/2 x 11 (Paperback)

Item #: BK454

210 pages, 7-1/2 x 10-1/2 (Hardcover)

This lavishly illustrated volume is an introduction to the history and appreciation of the Japanese Sword. Surveying 1500 years of sword history in Japan, it deals with nearly every aspect of sword lore, including forging techniques and problems of appraisal. The book’s centerpiece is a detailed examination of over a dozen of Japan’s most revered blades such as the O-Kanehira and the Dojigiri by Yasutsuna, perhaps the two finest swords in Japan.

Item #: BK472

Edited by Joe Kertzman
Softcover 8-¼ x 10-7/8
312 pages

The annual source for photos, addresses, and information on your favorite custom and factory knives, as well as a selection of articles from the best writers in the business. includes over 1000 photographs and a complete directory of custom knifemakers, supply houses, knife manufacturers and importers, and other knife related businesses such as photographers and engravers.

Returning this year: over 1000 FULL COLOR photos - a great addition to the book, since many people buy this book primarily for the pictures.

Item #: BK741

Chapman

Little Uglies is a product of Champman's excess energy and imagination.  Popular with blacksmiths, this all metal folding knife is so uglie it's cute, each face is hot formed using surprisingly simple tooling.  Several spring possibilities are explored.  Forged faces iron that only a mother would love can be used for pocket knife handles.  Forging and finishing sequence, spring design, blade/spring geometry and how to attach the spring to the handle are covered.  Pictures of even other all steel pocket knives, some homemade, some factory knives are include.  This "Idea" book will get you started making that one of a kind folder folks want to own.  Step-by-step illustrations guide you through making your "Little Uglie".  Part of the fun is making test "Little Uglie" faces on scrap until you get that just right one that ends up being a folder handle.

12 pages, 8-1/2 x 11 (Paperback)

Item #: BK451

Hrisoulas

This advanced study of steel reveals forging secrets that for centuries have been protected by guilds.  Never-before-seen instructions, diagrams and photos explain the tricks behind using Japanese mokume gane, differential heat treating, power hammers, and other techniques to make kukris, wavy blades, spears and swords that bear the master's mark.

296 pages, 8-1/2 x 11 (Softcover)

Item #: BK461

Maryon

Repairing and restoring "Bible" for goldsmiths, silversmiths, and rare metal-smiths.  This book discusses materials and tools, filigree work, repousse, inlaying and overlaying, niello, enameling, polishing, hallmarking, assaying, and has guides on many melting points and weights of metals.  Over 300 illustrations.

5-3/8 x 8-1/2

Item #: BK431

Chapman

A fixed blade and simple folder are illustrated with step-by-step instructions using hot and cold iron techniques.  Building a simple touchmakr is covered along with an "Antler Drilling Engine" and a few Damascus tricks thrown in.  Many of Gene Chapman's bench notes, tidbits, sources and hints are included about knifemaking and hot iron work that was learned with hands on experience.  This should save many frustrating moments for bladesmiths and knifemakers.

18 pages, 8-1/2 x 11 (Paperback)

Item #: BK453

Hrisoulas

Pattern-welded blades are among the most beautiful and durable creations ever to emerge from the bladesmith's forge, and now Jim Hrisoulas reveals the secrets of this ancient craft.  From the welding of the starting billet to the final assembly of the completed blade, Hrisoulas provides in-depth instruction in forging basic, precise patterns and the more stunning complex designs.

120 pages, 8-1/2 x 11 (Paperback)

Item #: BK462

Chapman

Penny Knife is about building a historic springless folder from the colonial era.  These inexpensive folders were popular then and the story goes they were named because they cost a penny back then.  Just learning how to make the sheet metal bolster tight is worth the price of the booklet.  Penny knife is very popular with reenactors concerned with authenticity.

19 pages, 8-1/2 x 11 (Paperback)

Item #: BK450

Juranitch

Recognized as "The Bible Of The Cutting Edge," it belongs in the library of anyone who's serious about sharpening.  Written by Guinness world record holder John Juranitch, it contains all the knowledge and insights gained during his more than 45 years in the sharpening industry.  Crammed with photos, illustrations and cutting edge secrets wyou won't find anywhere else.  Its 14 chapters cover topics like how to choose a knife, sharpening theories and applications, steeling, using a hone and much, much more.  You'll get answers to the most asked sharpening questions.  You'll learn the truth about common myths like why you should never use oil on a hone.  And you'll get the insights necessary to put a great edge on knives, axes, fish hooks, arrowheads, chain saws and other tools.  It's a history, a handbook, a reference manual that the simplest, most complete way to give yourself a razor edge on sharpening.

144 pages, 8 x 9-1/4 (Paperback)

Item #: BK464

Watson

In a process handed down from his grandfather, Jim Watson explains and illustrates sharpening techniques for numerous woodcarving tools and knives of various sizes and shapes including pocket knives and kitchen knives.  The necessary materials for proper sharpening are listed and discussed with methods for reconditioning and making you own new knives and tools as well as information on resurfacing the sharpening stones.  By following Jim's instructions and adding a little practice and patience, everyone will be able to achieve and maintain a superior edge, as keen as the piece of steel will allow.

175 pages, 6 x 9 (Paperback)

Item #: BK650

Bottorff

This book will teach you all about knife sharpening - how to select a sharpening system and how to sharpen a knife to a razor edge. There is also information about abrasives, knife steels, sharpening theory, honing & stropping, electric sharpening machines, using steels, and how to sharpen ceramic knives, vegetable peelers, axes, chisels, plane irons and other common tools. Whether you require a sharp slicer for the kitchen or a sturdy chopper for the field, this book will show you how to get the edge you need. It lives up to its title - Sharpening Made Easy.

96 pages (Paperback)

Item #: BK718

Moore

Table Knives and Forks covers the history and use of knives as eating implements.  It traces their development from their design in the Middle Ages to their modern form.  The art of the cutler is covered, as well as the gradual introduction of the table fork and the evolution of the trio of fork, knife, and spoon during the early eighteenth century.  Author Simon Moore, a well known expert on tableware, has written several articles in hopes of stimulating interest in collecting cutlery.

32 pages, 6 x 8-1/4 (Paperback)

Item #: BK643

Price

Over 1000 black & white pictures, many showing the different items Price has made.  The photos provide step-by-step instruction on how the pieces are made.  He covers the selection of metal, taking measurements, decorative techniques, engineering the joints, strapping, mail, padding and hammerwork.  A chapter covers the work of other modern armourers and projects specifically devoted to making a helm, body armour, etc.  He has been doing armouring for almost 20 years, both in the SCA and other medieval re-enactment groups.

520 pages, 8-1/2 x 11 (Softcover)

Item #: BK148

Pictorial arsenal of war-making instruments offers over 1400 copyright-free illustrations of battle-axes, bows & arrows, cannons, catapults, clubs, daggers, handguns, tanks, suits of armor, helmets, much more culled from old archives and publications.

Hart

192 pages, 9-3/8 x 12-1/4 (Paperback)

Item #: BK139

Goddard

Master bladesmith Wayne Goddard draws on his decades of experience to assist knifemakers of all skill levels.  With its question-and-answer format, this book tackles real-world problems like heat-trating and choosing the best steel.

160 pages, 8-1/2 x 11 (Paperback)

Item #: BK458