Forging and Heat Treating

Shop all the tools you need for knife forging at home, including anvils, forges, kilns, hammers, tongs, and other heat-treating supplies, as well as etching equipment for you to customize and decorate your knife. To forge a knife, the knifemaker puts the blade material in an oven to soften it and make it malleable. Then, the knifemaker strikes the heated material repeatedly with a heavy sledgehammer to form the blade.