A Modern Guide to Knifemaking: Step-by-step instruction for forging your own knife from expert bladesmiths, including making your own handle, sheath and sharpening

its a great well written book. It teaches everything you need to know to make a knife. Including building the forge and basic metallurgy, She humbly interviews some top knife makers. Laura goes over design and gives really good advice on how to design a knife. Her story of her first knife is cool. She is a real adventurer! Great read and a text book on knife making rolled into one. This is a must buy.

Great book on the ins and outs of knifemaking!

I just got into knifemaking in the Fall of 22. This was one of a handful of books I purchased on knifemaking and has been a go-to resource for me so far. It has step by step details for each process along with an ample amount of photos to reference from. While there are alot of other books available on the market on the topic, for the price point, quality, and material presented, this book is a good purchase.

Well written. Clear, concise, great illustrations. She really knows what stalking about and more importantly, she can pass it on. I just wish she had other books I could get.

If you are looking for a book that has everything about making knives you should look elsewhere. If, however, you want a clear guide to making your first knife, this is the book you want. Laura gives you a little setup info including the kinds of tools you need and then goes through each step in making a knife from initial design all the way to making the sheath.

I'm new to knife making and this book is exactly what I needed. I love the step by step instructions, great photos, and the author's no-nonsense approach. I highly recommend it if you want all the steps for knife making in one well put-together book. You can always read and learn more about knife making, but this book gives you everything you need to make a knife from raw steel to sheath.

Read this cover to cover in two sittings. Really informative for someone starting out. Simply takes you through the process of your first knife. Detailed with great pictures. Particularly found the heat treating section useful. Would definitely recommend this book for someone starting out or thinking about the process.

This is a beautifully produced book and the author writes well. She covers all of the aspects of knifemaking and communicates her passion for it. Unfortunately there is very little detail so the book is best suited to the absolute beginner who is trying to gauge their enthusiasm for starting at knife making. Wayne Goddard’s 50 Dollar Knife Shop covers the same material in much more detail. For stock removal knife making try David Boye’s Step-by-Step Knife Making. Bladesmithing with Murray Carter covers Japanese forged knives and his book 101 Knife Designs is very useful too. For sheer inspiration from the work of a Master look at The Complete Bladesmith by Jim Hrisoulas.

A well written and easy to follow guide I will have a lot of use for this and no doubt refer to it often.

Petit livre instructif intéressant pour débutants.

Trae diferentes modelos para la fabricación de cuchillos y muy buenas recomendaciones de los aceros y las temperaturas.

Very informative

tres decu , rien d interessant dans ce livre , beaucoup de bla bla , meme pour un debutant en coutellerie very disappointed, nothing of interest in this book, a lot of blah blah, even for a beginner in cutlery