My desk job can sometimes leave me lacking a sense of accomplishment. My office successes, while meaningful, are all too often buried under the sound of incoming e-mails, reminders for the next ...

In this video, we cook Woots steel from tool bits. From the ingot that turned out we make a chopping knife. We decided to make the handle for the knife from a particularly durable material - carbon.

Every weekend from September through April, Dan Olsen teaches knife- and sword-making classes at 4D Blades, his barn studio southeast of Heber.