@Aaron Williams you know,ive bein the background for all these years just coklecting and hording and irritating the 3 amazing ladies in my lufe(wife and 2 reenage daughta)by chewing their ears off with knife fun facts or new scale materials or whatever....i guebi just realized that for the exception of some females out there,most women could care leas what a knife looks like or how the scales compliment the Damascus boade or how good a particular knife reels in the hand....iologize for verring off course....lol i currentky,as we speak putting together my own forge and im sti accumulate the vatious tools and machines and when the time comes i wi start watvhing a few videos and jump in with bith feet and go from there. I am a 32year stone mason so i thibi got the hammering fown....bearing on stone all day with madh hammers and carbide chiaels....iveways been one tonlearn best by doung it and learning as go. I look forward to being able to showcas either my first masterpiece or my first colossal fail...either way its tfinal frontier to me and my hobby so im gonna just have fun with it and grow my coloection by firging them myself!!!

@Aaron Williams when you get that gladius done...i wourealky like to see what you created... Like annold forman of mine used tontell me when iirstvstarted laying stone on the wall in the middle of a bunch of 20-25 year joyrneyman. Aaron i want quality BEFORE quantity.....