Hand-forged hunting knife with a burl wood handle resting against an anvil in front of a lit forge
Totally Hammered Forge emblem: the letters THF set in an anvil

Veteran-Owned · Hand-Forged Steel

Pattern-welded Damascus blades, forged and folded by hand in a one-man shop run by a 23-year U.S. Army veteran. From raw billet to a blade you'll hand down.

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Portfolio

Featured Work

Every blade is forged to shape, not ground from stock. The pattern you see is folded steel, not an etch on a machine-cut blank.

Damascus Bowie with a copper accent line, forged guard and deep blue handle, standing on an anvil
Blue Damascus Bowie · pattern-welded Damascus, copper forge-weld line, forged sculpted guard, deep blue handle
Matched pair of zebra-pattern Damascus camp knives with black handles and copper bolsters
Matched Set, Camp Knives · zebra-pattern Damascus, black handle, copper bolster & pins, sold as a pair
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Process

The Craft

No stock removal, no shortcuts. Every blade goes through the same six stages, start to finish, by hand.

  1. Forge

    Steel stock brought up to a forge-welding heat and hammered into a solid billet, layer by layer.

    ~2,350°F

  2. Draw & Fold

    The billet is drawn out and folded to build the Damascus pattern, then forged again into a rough blade shape.

    multiple folds

  3. Grind

    Profile is cut, bevels are set and the edge geometry is refined by hand on the belt grinder.

    by hand

  4. Quench

    Blade is brought to non-magnetic and quenched in oil to lock in a hard, fine-grained edge.

    oil quench

  5. Temper

    Drawn back in the oven to relieve stress from the quench and dial in toughness without losing hardness.

    ~60–61 HRC

  6. Finish

    Handle fit, guard wrapped, edge hand-honed, and the whole piece sent through final inspection before it ships.

    hand-honed

The Shop

About Totally Hammered Forge

Totally Hammered Forge is a small, made-to-order bladesmith shop. Every knife starts as raw steel and a hot fire, not a pre-cut blank. The pattern in the blade is the actual structure of the steel, folded and forge-welded by hand.

Pieces are built one at a time, to order. That means a longer wait than a factory knife, and a blade that's actually yours: sized, balanced, and finished for the hand that's going to carry it.

Veteran-owned Hand-forged, not stock-removed Small batch, made to order Custom Damascus patterns
Blue Damascus Bowie displayed in a framed glass-top case with its hand-stitched leather sheath
Tyler Anderson

The Smith

Tyler Anderson

23 years in the U.S. Army, with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Now every blade from this shop comes off his anvil.

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Commissions Open

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Tell me what you're picturing: steel type, blade length, handle material, and what it's for. I'll put together a quote and a build timeline.

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