Hunting trip into the forest often ends up with nothing more than admiring the nature and contemplating beautiful views. Sometimes however the hunter is granted good fortune by St.Hubert making him able to shoot some prey. In most cases hunted and then gutted animal goes to collection centre...

Knife for a hunter - which one to choose? It can be said that the history of mankind is engraved with a knife. In the past, the possession and skillful use of primitive tools, slightly resembling modern knives, were decisive for survival. Over the centuries, with the development of technology,...

The stereotypical thinking of many of us makes us believe that the survival knife and its possession clearly shifts our thinking into many weeks spent in the bush and the need to survive in it. Of course, in such conditions, it is definitely worth having the right quality equipment. However, it...

                           After hardening, the workpiece is hard but brittle. Martensite, which appears in steel during hardening, has a very high stress in it, so that the knife is not brittle, it is necessary to remove some of this stress....

How to choose a cooling medium? Again: expertise and experience or trial and error method. Based on the CTT (Continuous Cooling Transformation) diagram for a specific steel! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_cooling_transformation                             Fig. 1 CCT...

To what temperature I heat to, how long to keep the knife at this temperature: the manufacturer often presents it at a temperature scale but usually without the time of Austenitization! In what do I cool it in, how fast do I do it, are even harder questions. The manufacturer often provides...