ABANA Featured Forgings
Online Exhibition of Forged Work
On the Edge
On view through January 31, 2026.
For this exhibition, you’ll see the bladesmith community heavily represented in the On the Edge exhibition. Thank you to all the participants in this Featured Forgings Online Exhibition, and be sure to check out the next call for entries that is open now!
Vincent Soriano
Vorax. 330-layer damascus ladder pattern 1084, 15N20, pure Nickel forged into a 20″ Roman Mainz-pattern Gladius. 2.2 lbs overall weight. Sharpbycoop photo.
Tim Santey
Scissors Beats Paper. Rock, Paper, Scissors, a childhood “diplomatic” decision maker. Tasty Cakes and Cosmic Brownies were won and lost during the roshambo of paper covering rock. Kickball careers were made or ended as the recess gavel bangs louder than rock smashing scissors. And the nostalgia of it all is brought back quicker than scissors slicing through paper.
Patrick Farneman
Vest Bowie. Raindrop Damascus vest Bowie knife forged from 1084 & 15n20. Guard and spacer forged from local wrought iron from the historic Yale Hotel in Chewelah, WA, 2 vintage micarta spacers from the Boeing factory, g10 and nickel spacers, stabilized curly maple handle, and a mosaic pin. Photo by Jocelyn Frazier.
Feather Chef Knife. Feather Damascus forged in collaboration with David Lisch at his shop. Knife forged to shape and finished at my shop. The pattern reveals the movement of the steel as it is forged. Integral Lisch-style bolster, amboyna burl handle, with g10 and nickel silver spacer. Damascus is 1084 and 15n20. 7” blade, 12” overall length. Photo by Jocelyn Frazier.
Chris Green
Untitled. Form and function must be a union when creating knives. I create organically, allowing the materials to speak for themselves. The first knife is a w1 integral with ram’s horn scales. The second is a gaucha-inspired Damascus blade with a buckeye burl handle. My materials need to evoke emotion, texture, and movement as I draw inspiration from topographical maps.
Trevor Parkis
HELLFIRE FORGE
Untitled. 120-layer 1084 15n20 stabilized spalted sassafras handle.
Jeremy Bryant
J Thomas Forge
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Edge of the Abyss. Integral Persian hunter.
Curves and Curls. Integral pattern-welded takedown fighter.
Silent Crow. ABANA members may be familiar, as I definitely am, with operating somewhere “on the edge” between our plan for a project, and what our skills can reliably achieve. With any luck, we’re all operating somewhere near the edge, persistently expanding the frontier of our own skillset. Possessing only moderate skills myself, I find I am “on the edge” easily, and often. For this pipe tomahawk, which was made as a gift for a friend and mentor, each operation ratcheted up the investment of time and effort: forming the eye in the bar stock, slitting the edge of the blade, welding the bit, forging the bowl without thinning the walls too much, engraving the cheek, filing, sanding, heat treating, drilling out the handle… even turning the antler plug was a one shot, cross-your-fingers situation. Height 90 cm, width at the bottom 53 cm.
Nicholas Kimball
Silas. This blade was completely forged by hand and finished with hand files and sand paper. The blade is a simple 1095 steel with an ebony handle and mother of pearl inlay. Also completed by hand. It features a 7″ blade, an overall length of 11 3/4″, and weighs only 8 1/2 ounces. I made this Coffin Handle Bowie to be my own blade. It’s the first blade I’ve made that I intended to keep for myself.
Brian Rognholt
Odin Forge
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Snake Bite. 1200-layer feather pattern. San Antonio Diamondbacks snakeskin sheath. Copper grizzly claw guard and pommel.
Colton Yellowaga
Twist of Fate. I set out to create a piece of handcrafted artistry that would showcase a blend of intricate details while remaining simply elegant. This Damascus Dagger is forged from 28 alternating layers of 15N20 and 80 CRv steel. The process began by carefully stacking and forge-welding the steel together, then twisting it until it met my exacting standards. Once the desired pattern was achieved, I stretched and worked the steel, cutting it into two bars which were then welded together to form a multibar blade. For the spacer and guard, I used remnants from the same blade steel, which i forged then ground to the ideal shape. This was to maintain cohesion across the design. The handle is sculpted from rich Honduran Rosewood, which I meticulously shaped with various grits of sandpaper and smoothed until it has achieved a refined and polished finish. The pommel, cast from a blend of brass, nickel, and copper, features a hand-engraved maple leaf, adding a subtle touch of nature and a Canadian touch to this piece. One of the key features of this dagger is its take-down design. I wanted to ensure that it could be easily disassembled into separate pieces. This is the function of the hole in the pommel, allowing for easy maintenance and assembly.
Charles Cook
12″ Dagger. 140-layer Damascus forged by me, with a lazy twist pattern and fittings 179 layers Damascus.
Jacob Weisæth
Skarp Slipeverksted
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Untitled. A pair of chef knives forged from 137 layers of 15n20, 1095, K720 and 115CrV3. Handles from buffalo horn and lignum vitae
Matthew Parkinson
Ashokan Sunrise. Pictorial Damascus. The rising sun over placid water is an image from my memory. The blade was forged as a part of my demo at the Ashoken conference and finished in my shop the following year. The concept of this kind of pattern welding is to use the entire surface as a mosaic canvas, presenting as a coherent whole image rather than a framed image or repeating pattern, as is common in other forms of mosaic Damascus. Blade 7″; overall 12″; a 410 stainless bolster g10 spacers with a figured Koa wood handle.
