I don't know if it counts as "newest knife buy" when you buy a course to make it your self... Anyhow..
I'm very pleased with the end result! Was a two day course here in Switzerland close to Basel. The teacher is a guy is called Daniel Gentile (FERRUM D Gentile - Schmiedekurse, Messer, Schwerter / Forging Classes, Knives, Swords). It was a fantastic experience to create a blade like this from scratch! (did everything except the final grind) And i can highly recommend anyone who has a local blade smith to try something like this
Materials are : San-Mai Pattern Weld: 64 layers of O2 & 15N20 in a rain-drop pattern with a W2 Core at 62HRC. Wood is burnt ash, brass ring and walnut end piece.
Now i just gotta see how it will handle some copping of produce tonight
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Looks amazing,think you did an awesome job.
Good idea to have a course like that for knives or blacksmith enthusiast. I would be interested.
Think it would be something I would.be interested to try just once as well.