jessf
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I wanted to do something special for a collegue at my office. What better than i knife I ask you? There is nothing better and you're silly for even thinking there might be.
Working on my forge finish and this was a lot of fun. About 4" blade it took a couple of hours to bang it out and add my touch mark. I used the mokume i salvaged from my "Not a Gyuto" thread. I did all the cross sectional shaping with the hammer and anvil. I polished the spine as well as the edge. Handle is a piece of scrap bubinga. The box is make from carboard kept from an ikea table as it's super thin and appropriate for the scale of the knife. I have half a pig worth of leather so it made sense to cut out a strop and package some polishing compound. The burlap wrap came from a gift bag a consultant used to deliver a gift basket to my office. Everyone fights over the chocolate, all i wanted was the burlap. Fewer calories.
I brought my barn board to the office and took these shots in the parking lot at before anyone got there.
Working on my forge finish and this was a lot of fun. About 4" blade it took a couple of hours to bang it out and add my touch mark. I used the mokume i salvaged from my "Not a Gyuto" thread. I did all the cross sectional shaping with the hammer and anvil. I polished the spine as well as the edge. Handle is a piece of scrap bubinga. The box is make from carboard kept from an ikea table as it's super thin and appropriate for the scale of the knife. I have half a pig worth of leather so it made sense to cut out a strop and package some polishing compound. The burlap wrap came from a gift bag a consultant used to deliver a gift basket to my office. Everyone fights over the chocolate, all i wanted was the burlap. Fewer calories.
I brought my barn board to the office and took these shots in the parking lot at before anyone got there.