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"broke bladesmith" is working title. It's only in the last six months-year that I finished getting the basic tools necessary to begin bladesmithing, so as it's fresh in my mind I began writing this, to help out beginning bladesmiths to get the tools they need to start making knives, as well as a chapter on basic heat treating. The closest thing to this, I suppose would be "The Fifty Dollar Knife Shop". I still need to add photos and diagrams, and this is the rough second draft, but I've finished the largest stretch of it. Any newbies are welcome to use this as you may, just don't distribute it off of this forum please. For the pros and other bladesmiths, would you mind reading through small parts of this and giving me correction or better tips or what I should have said instead? I'm not looking for grammar or spelling mistakes here, just correcting of any mistakes or misleading things I may have said. Thank you all very much, Caleb.Brokebladesmith.pdf