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Hi, I'm new to the forum and to making knives & hawks (2 & 1/2 weeks in).I have noticed that a lot of the so called forged hawks are only very roughly forged to shape and then the majority of the work is done on a grinder/sander..Is this really forged
?? Or is it stock removal?? I have been putting in a lot of effort trying to forge to about 99% and only use the sander/grinder to clean & sharpen the edge!! I know that the old blacksmiths did not have access to modern tools but does that make it "wrong" to cheat and do most of the hard work with them? Just asking

