Ouch! It snapped! While trying to raise my perfection in flattening, only few thumps with the hammer. And it was a real beauty of blade… made by one of my favourite carbon steels 52100. Fortunally it was the chance to check the hardening and the grain: I was astonished, the grain was really no[...]
Posts Tagged ‘carbon steel blade’
febbraio 7th, 2011 - 09:35 § in WIP
Out of the Oven – 06/02/2011
I was something slowed down by many business things, and now I’m trying to regain some more time. I’m a little late on some projects but they shuold go ahead. Show must go on and very quickly! Here there are the new neckers coming. Small precious and very sharp thingies. And some full [...]
gennaio 13th, 2011 - 10:30 § in Miscellaneous
Small Kiridashis
Here some small kiridashis. It is one of the my very favourite shapes in blades since it’s knife at its maximum expression, they’re so useful in multiple tasks. And since they are made of 1095 carbon steel they cut and cut flawlessy. They are maybe made by scrap of steels but this doesn&[...]