First blade -- total newbie

[Bud]

This is the best thread that I have ever seen on knife making because it is done from the perspective of a relative novice. I'm interested in making my own knives as well and thinking about getting started. wadebevans success has encouraged me. Part of getting started is just working up the courage like wadebevan did to start asking questions of people who know the answers. So here's my first question and I hope you don't laugh me out of the forum. The title of this section is "Knife making and blade smithing". So what's the difference between "making knives" and "smithing knives".