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Index
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Picking a Space for your shop
Setting up your shop
Lighting and Ventilation
Shop safety equipment
Chapter 2: A Knifemaker's Overview
What is a Good Knife?
Basic factors to consider before making your first knife
Corrosion
Chapter 3: Designing your Knife
How to design a knife
Popular types of knives
Making a template
Chapter 4: Tools Needed
Oxy-acetylene Torch
Workbench
Electric power
High-speed Angle Grinder
Quench
Drill press
Anvil
Files
Micrometer
Belt Grinder
Electric Kiln
Forge
Chapter 5: Understanding Steel
What is Steel?
Tips to look out for before choosing particular steel
A common system of numbering steels
Common Steels for Knife-making
Chapter 6: Blacksmithing
Heating the steel
Hammering
Moving Steel
Making a hot cut
Chapter 7: Knife Forging
Chapter 8: Grinding your Blade
Blade Profiling
Drilling holes in your knife
Surfacing and scribing centerlines
Grinding
Chapter 9: Heat and Steel
Heat treating your steel
Step 1: Normalize
Step 2: Annealing
Step 3: Hardening
Step 4: The Quench
Step 5: Tempering
Chapter 10: Regrinding and Polishing the Blade
Polishing
Chapter 11: Making a Full Tang Wooden Handle for your Knife
Conclusion
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