Old steel tools can often be repurposed into new blades through careful forging. In this project, a rusted iron saw is heated in a forge and reshaped into a katana-style sword. The process begins by ...

If you’re a sword lover, especially of the elegant, delicately curved "nihonto" (literally: “Japanese sword”), then this one’s for you. A new 60-minute film titled "Japanese Swords ~The World of ...

Micro-etching done on the surface often enhance the "watered silk" pattern of old swords made of wootz steel. Reuters A 75-centimetre long Indian sword made in the late eighteenth century and probably ...

“Soon, I will be able to unveil a shining baekjesingum, which is said to be the finest blade of all,” says Lee Eun-cheol, a 56-year-old master swordsmith. The restoration of the baekjesingum, a sword ...

In the dark, fortress-like confines of Shawn Cunningham's blacksmithing shop, the sweltering heat of the coal-fired forge is dwarfed only by the sound of steel smashing steel. But Cunningham doesn't ...