HOW TO MAKE KNIVES Ref: B004 By Robert (Bob) Loveless. All aspects of knifemaking are covered in detail including fabricating your own blanks from steel, fitting handles & bolsters, sheaths (including the best instruction on wet-forming weve seen), etching & more. 194 pages. Price: £14.99
THE COMPLETE KNIFE THROWING GUIDE: REVISED 3RD EDITION Ref: B008 By Gil Hibben. The Hibben knife throwing book 3rd edition. Completely revised & updated with guide for throwing, choosing knives & building targets. Instructions from beginner to professional. 210 x 134mm, 64 pages, Paperback. 41 colour pictures & 37 b&w line illustrations. Price: £8.99
ANTLERKNIFE Ref: B044 By Ulf Avander's. Offered to us by Swedish knifemaker & author Ulf Avander's. Swedish to English translation. Only 600 printed. Buy early! A must for knife maker & enthusiast on making the Sami Antler knife. Details on obtaining & preparation of materials to make knife & sheath. Inclujdes tanning & dyeing of hides. Selection, sourcing, preparation of antler, wood & hide. Design & outline planning, tools required. Preparation plotting out, making explained in detail. Full of unusual fact & techniques. Very detailed, even to a short lesson in scrimshaw for final knife decoration & presentation. 230mm x 130mm, 75 printed pages, Hardback. 107 b&w pictures & line drawings. Price: £28.00
STEP-BY-STEP KNIFEMAKING Ref: B056 By custom knifemaker David Boye. 20 exhaustive chapters cover all aspects of knifemaking from the beginners basics to some of the most advanced small-volume custom manufacturing techniques. The most comprehensive book available for the budding knife maker: amateur or professional. One of few books weve encountered to cover Carbon steel heat treatment procedures in depth, with invaluable instruction on tempering. 274 page, Soft cover. Fully illustrated. Price: £19.99
TABLE KNIVES & FORKS Ref: B366 By Lynn F Pearson. Knives have probably the longest history of any human artefacts &, with forks, are possibly the most used & taken for granted. Tracing the early history & development of their use as implements from the earliest times & some unknown styles from the Middle Ages are revealed. The cutlers art & rise of the cutlers companies are covered, as are the introduction of the fork & evolution of knife, fork & spoon during the eighteenth century. Concluding with the invention of stainless steel & the development of imaginative twentieth century modern designers styles of individual cutlery. 210 x 150mm, 32 pages, Paperback. 71 B & W photos & line illustrations. Price: £4.99
SPOONS 1650 TO 2000 Ref: B367 By Simon Moore. Spoons have probably the longest history of any artefact. This book traces the social position in history of English spoons & the many changes in style & form. Spoons that once graced medieval ducal tables & those of base metal used by commoners are illustrated & described. This gives collectors guidelines to follow should they find an antique spoon of unknown origin & date or be asked for an opinion. For this second expanded edition the coverage of the British Arts & Crafts Movement has been expanded, examining its contribution to European design at the turn of the nineteenth century. 210 x 150mm, 64 pages, Paperback. 64 colour & 47 B & W illustrations. Price: £5.99