The build journal for bladesmiths
who'd rather forge than format columns.
You spent 40 hours on that last knife. The spreadsheet you used to track it has no idea what a quench plate is. Hilt does.
No account · Forge 3 story pages free
Three notebooks. One Sheet. A phone full of photos.
Each build lives in a different place. When a buyer asks "what hardness did you target?" you spend an hour digging.
Excel doesn't know what a stock-removal grind is.
You're shoehorning a craft into a tool that was built for accountants. Every column you add feels like a betrayal.
The customer wants the story, not the receipt.
A custom knife is a gift. The buyer wants to know what steel, what fire, what you were thinking. None of that fits in a column.
Hilt is the build journal that respects the craft.
Photo-first timeline
Drag photos into the build. They render as a chronological story — forge to grind to handle to finish. The way you actually think about your work.
Heat-treat templates by steel
Pick 1095 or AEB-L or 26C3 and Hilt loads the schedule. Edit it for your differential quench. Save it. Reuse it on the next blade.
Customer specs in one place
Blade length, handle materials, deadline, deposit status. Linked to the build, not buried in a DM.
AI story pages
When the knife is done, Hilt generates a one-page story your buyer can frame. Specifics from your build notes. None of the marketing fluff.
This is for you if —
- You've sold more than 3 knives but fewer than 300.
- You currently track builds in a notebook, a Google Sheet, and your phone — not because that's smart, but because no one made a better thing.
- You take photos of every build but never put them anywhere useful.
- You once spent an hour digging through DMs to remember which steel you used on a customer's knife.
- The phrase "forge journal" makes more sense to you than "CRM."
Apprentice
5 builds tracked · public profile
- 5 build logs
- Photo upload
- Steel database
- Public profile page
Journeyman
unlimited builds · AI story pages
- Unlimited builds
- AI story page generation
- Customer portal links
- Heat-treat templates (all steels)
- Build-hour tracking
- CSV export
Master Smith
for working shops
- Everything in Journeyman
- Multi-smith (up to 3)
- Customer CRM
- Invoice + deposit tracking
- Custom branding
The forge is still warming up.
Hilt is in early preview. Join the waitlist and the first 90 days of Journeyman are on us. We'll only email you when there's actually something worth saying.