Blackwood W2 - sheath done.pg2

Bangin' hamon, Stuart! Nice work. I've been wanting to mess around with nugui too- did you make your own? I've been saving up scale flakes by the anvil to make kanahada but have not tried it yet. The damn can actually spilled the other day, I was mad... care to elaborate at all on your process with this stuff?
 
Nice Stuart,

I really enjoy your work. I usually think a knife looks incomplete without at least one pin.
This is an exception to that, very well done!

Greg
 
Thanks for the comments.

As far as the nugui, I actually use some kanahada I bought from Namikawa Heibei in Japan. I had tried some Jitekko I got on ebay and it was too coarse. I had a stray piece of grit scratch the heck out of a blade. Putting scratches like that in the final stages of polishing was a "never doing that again" moment.
I also tried making my own but could never get it quite fine enough so for the same reason I opted to just get some from Japan and mix it.
I am still learning how to use it but I heat the blade with really hot water and then just rub the blade with the kanahada/oil and a piece of oumewata.
Nothing special other than the heat.. I have more experiments to make but I like the effect, subtle though it may be.

As far as the pin... I hemmed and hawed over that and in the end I decided that without was the route for this knife. I'm glad you agree.
 
Thanks for responding on that, Stuart. It's amazing how some subtle treatment can improve a hamon just a bit more, and how when you get into them, you just want to keep finding those polishing tweaks until all those little improvements result in ever more amazing polishes. Looks like you've been following that path pretty intensely.
 
Thanks Patrice.

Just wanted to add the sheath photos before the end of the thread. Crossdraw in black and brown to emulate the Blackwood.

Thanks for looking and for all the comments.

BlackwoodW2_6.jpg


BlackwoodW2_7.jpg
 
Sure is a beautiful knife and the sheath just completes the package. Thanks, Greg.
 
Really like the overall shape, bronze guard and that smokin' hamon.
Sheath completes a great package !
PS: Looks better without a handle pin, imo.
Thanks for sharing, Stuart ! :thumbup:

Doug
 
Stuart,

Just excellent. There's an elegant simplicity that's so hard to achieve here, and the sheath is a fine compliment.

John
 
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