Wayne Goddard's $50 Knife Shop, Revised [Paperback]

Wayne Goddard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 7, 2006

Don't spend big bucks on your knife shop!

You don't need to spend a fortune to start making fantastic knives. Noted knifemaker Wayne Goddard provides outstanding step-by-step instructions for making your own tools, finding the right steel and forging, grinding and heat-treating knives on a budget.

Wonderfully illustrated with full-color photography, Goddard's book guides you through the knifemaking process from start to finish and even includes a budget breakdown showing everything you need is available to bargain prices. Goddard even explains and demonstrates the making of wire Damascus blades with the simplest of tools.

Wayne Goddard's $50 Knife Shop is a find companion volume to Goddard's book The Wonder of Knifemaking and provides all the details you need to start making knives on a budget.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Gun Digest Books; Revised edition (April 7, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0896892956
• ISBN-13: 978-0896892958
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #142,951 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #79 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Antiques & Collectibles > Firearms & Weapons

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60 of 64 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Too much useless information and not enough basic information., May 6, 2009

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A. Willis (Louisville, KY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wayne Goddard's $50 Knife Shop, Revised (Paperback)

I bought this book to give me some guidance on making my first knife. 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. However, Wanye is too distracted by his 40+ years of knife making to be able to break down knife making for a newbie. He wants to tell you all sorts of little details that will not help you make your first knife. 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. So even if you wanted to duplicate his solution you couldn't. Also Wayne likes to scrounge yard sales and create grinders from old washing machines. So he spends a huge amount of time talking about all the gismos he has made and special jigs. Unfortunately he wants you to create all the stuff he has made over 40 years without any sort of details or dimensions. He just shows pictures and gives a few general comments about having found the parts at various yard sales and salvage yards.

He makes assumptions that you know things. Like he glossed over pinning a handle onto a knife by just saying to "pin it". 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. 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.

22 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great book on forging, October 9, 2007

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Trent Rock (Goleta, CA (The 805)) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wayne Goddard's $50 Knife Shop, Revised (Paperback)

If you want to FORGE a knife this is the book for you....If you want to BUILD a knife===>There are others more suited for that

17 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A recommended first book for new knifemakers, May 19, 2006

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James Stone "Gemstone" (Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wayne Goddard's $50 Knife Shop, Revised (Paperback)

Wayne's first version of this book was the first knifemaking book i purchased. Wayne has guided me and been my mentor and friend from the first (approx 4 yrs ). This latest version is one of the best books a beginner could get. All the fotos and diagrams are in color which greatly helps in understanding the lessons. It has new fotos and diagrams all in color. Although this book has approx same number of pages as the original, it seems to contain 50% more info in it. I would reccommend this book to all knifemakers...beginner and experienced. Definitely a 5 star book.