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Are the fullers HI puts in their blades cut/ground or forged into the blade? Specifically the fullers on the Chit style blades, if it makes any difference.
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Fullers?
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Look down the blade at a light and you can see hammer marks IN the fullers. This leads me to believe they are forged in.
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sorry to disappoint...but what you are looking at are "wobbles" left from using a handheld grinding wheel. Now, they might do some hammering ahead of time to set the general shape of the fullers... I don't know. But I asked for a video of the process and that's what they sent me.
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Those marks are what made me question wich method is applied. I am guessing that it being a satin (vilager) finished blade, the hammer marks are not blended in as much as compared to a high polish blade. Yet I do know what grinding marks look like from a disc/bench grinder, and these do resemble those marks after an attempt to blend or polish them out. I am rather new to hand forged blades and the charicteristic features found on them that make them so unique. Knowlege is power.
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Idda never guessed that Dan. How do they get the parts for the grinders. I thought I read their only power tool was a hair blow dryer.....
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Yes a bit disappointed Mr Koster, but not overly so. I read the description of the Gelbu Special over on the HI web site, and it indicated that it's fuller is forged and not ground in. I guess that I mistook that statment to indicate that forging of the fullers is the technique employed on all of HI fullered blades. I guess I read a bit too much into that statement.
Regardless, thank you for your knowlege and input Mr.Koster.
Regardless, thank you for your knowlege and input Mr.Koster.
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at that time, the fullers probably were forged in...once they got electricity in the shop...got lazy. 
I'm not saying they're not forged...I'm not there in person...they certainly could forge them in on some, and not on others.
But I most certainly do have a video showing them use an angle grinder to put in fullers - which is what I have done and it does work.
I'm not saying they're not forged...I'm not there in person...they certainly could forge them in on some, and not on others.
But I most certainly do have a video showing them use an angle grinder to put in fullers - which is what I have done and it does work.