Links

James R Cook: Arkansas Living Treasure – James R. Cook, ABS MS
Fisk Knives – Jerry Fisk, ABS MS
Matherton Forge – Kevin Cashen, ABS MS
Don Fogg Custom Knives – Don Fogg’s wonderful website. If you have not been here you should.
Custom Knife Collectors Association – This is a new group you should visit. These guys will be very important to the future of knifemaking.
Sword Forum International – Great metallurigical forum full of almost everything you might want to know about heat treating steel
Ellis Custom Knifeworks – This is a great place for forging equipment including heat treating salts and quality quenchants (the voodoo backyard homemade stuff is inferior)
The Role and Emerging Use of Niobium in Tool Steel – I may be the first smith to forge a blade made from a thermite melt in order to alloy niobium into a high carbon steel in order to produce niobium carbides.
Martensitic Transformations: Crystallography and Nucleation – Good reading on martensitic phase transformations
Glass and Metalworker Protective/Filter Eyewear – Great place to buy protective eyewear that actually helps you see temperature change gradients. I cannot imagine forging without a pair of AUR-99 lenses.
Tempering Processes/Technology – This is a very nice article on tempering/heat treating
Physical Metallurgy of Steel – A nice article on metallurgy with decent pictures of martensite and list of common steels with alloy content.