High Performance Blade: II (Knife talk) - Softcover

Carving a huge following from his popular Knife Talk columns in Blade magazine, Ed Fowler amasses a second volume of columns just as informative and exciting as the first. A veteran knife maker from Wyoming, Fowler presents 65 articles on such topics as function, design and technique; philosophy; forging and heattreating; and the outside world. He also discusses industry legends, knife maintenance, the sheep horn style, how to grind blades, hardening vs. tempering, ball bearing steel and carbon steel.

Ed Fowler was born and brought up in a little mining town high in the Rocky Mountains. His grandfather gave him his first pocketknife while a school boy thus beginning a love affair with knives that continues to grow. His first book was King Arthur and His Knights. This began his quest for Excalibur, where the world of knives is his Camelot.