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It has LOTS of pictures and does a good job of explaining them unlike some other books. If you are on a budget I would strongly recommend this book. If you have a little more budget than $50 get David Boye's book Step by Step Knife Making or the Barney/Loveless book How to Make Knives I bought this book along with 3 other knife making books. Wayne does a good job of describing knife making procedures with a minimum of tools.
If they are experienced at making knives, they may or may not learn new tricks or styles of knifemaking. This book will make a great gift for any handyman, especially if they have limited knowledge about knifemaking, as I did. This book is full of good information for the beginning knifemaker. It is well worth your money.
Well written and put together. This book is the reason I started making knives.
What a steal. I got this one for under $10, used(I could not tell it was used).
This is by far, the best knife making book I have. If you buy no other book, buy this one.
5+ stars If you are like most, broke, you have got to get this book.
This is real world, not a techy manual.
If your new at knife making then this is a must have. What its best at is to show you that you can make knives from scrap and homemade tools for next to nothing. This is a really great book. It covers most aspects of knife making, even some stock removal. I highly recommend this book. This book is mainly concerned with forging knives from scrap coil and leaf spring from cars. Its one of the best books on making your own tools too.
So he spends a huge amount of time talking about all the gismos he has made and special jigs. I bought this book to give me some guidance on making my first knife. However, Wanye is too distracted by his 40+ years of knife making to be able to break down knife making for a newbie. I have been more helped by doing a google search and finding a few web sites that in just several pages tell you what to do step by step with enough detail that you can follow it.I do not recommend this as your first book on knife making.
I was left wondering, what is the pin for, what is it made of, how do you do it,.What I was really hoping for was a set of clear instructions to make "this" sample knife do 1, 2, 3, 4,. but he does not give you that. Like he glossed over pinning a handle onto a knife by just saying to "pin it". He makes assumptions that you know things.
Like he gives you a history of what quench solutions he has used without telling you the proportions of the different ingredents in his current perfected mixture. He just shows pictures and gives a few general comments about having found the parts at various yard sales and salvage yards. I think that I am the intended audience for this book which stresses starting out and the $50 investement that making a knife can take. Unfortunately he wants you to create all the stuff he has made over 40 years without any sort of details or dimensions.
Also Wayne likes to scrounge yard sales and create grinders from old washing machines. He wants to tell you all sorts of little details that will not help you make your first knife. So even if you wanted to duplicate his solution you couldn't.
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