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Stacy probably doesn't know this but his posts here have literally helped me since my very first knife.
So big thanks! Daniel, this is too cool! It's crazy, I'm workin on pretty much the exactly the some project as you! I just forged a tanto profile out of an old (3-4 years) piece of Aldos W2 (it was good stuff) that I had messed around with a few years ago in the forge. I never finished forging it and the profile was all kinds of crazy, having a point on each end etc. lmao It was cause I had no idea what I wanted to make... I just wanted to bang on some hot steel at the time
But yea I just salvaged it by reforging it into a tanto 'type' blade the other day and was actually planning on starting the stock removal on it today, using files nonetheless! ( I thought that was funny since we both have perfect working belt grinders) I hope you wouldn't mind if I posted one or two pics a little later in here just to show you, and maybe get your input on it. I "STILL" have yet to make any japanese style blade, so I'd like to see what you think about my sketch, and I promise not to derail.. if not that's no problemm either.
It's gonna be the Shobu Zukuri type (sorry I can never remember all the proper terms), kinda like how some puukko are ground ya know.. I'm definitely not tryin to be exact to tradition, but I do want it to look somewhat traditional... I just wanna make something that looks cool and performs great :thumbup:lol
Anyway, I'll for sure be following this thread! And once again, it's great to have ya wih "us" on the steel squishing side
Take care brother
~Paul
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Paul that sounds super cool, yes please share pics here!
I have been studying the traditional thing for years now but barely know anything... there is a lot to learn! It's a lot like making Sushi, you have to cook the rice for a few years before even look at any fish.
I now have this one ground to a full flat from tip to tip and top to bottom! My forging was closer to expected and I lost my forged finish but that's fine with me.
I can already tell the copper I asked about is probably too thick across the board... maybe .125" even for the Tsuba.
