That's a good idea, actually. I'm always screwing up pieces of steel. Once I start pattern-welding, I'm sure I'll screw up a lot more of it. Why not make some of the cutoffs into pins? Once annealed, they should peen over ok. I think it would be very attractive on the right knife.
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Oz
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