Gyuto, Water Buffalo, Damascus

ScottRoush

ScottRoush

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This is my first modern damascus blade using good old 15n20 and 1084 in a random pattern. Nothing smelted, nothing home made. 8" blade, 0.095" at the spine with distal taper for a nice thin cutter. The ferrule is from an end piece from the billet and sports some charming residual weld beads and other miscellaneous character that normally goes to the scrap pile. The handle is domestic water buffalo sent to me from a friend working in Thailand and has a lacewood spacer. The customer wanted a beefy, comfortable handle.. and he got it.

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Awesome work Scott, I love the ferrule.
I'm running out of adjectives for your amazin' work....
 
Scott, that would really liven up someone's sushi dinner!
I can't really tell by that second picture, but you said that was a "ferrule". Is it really a ferrule, or just a spacer?
How many layer steel?
 
Thank Karl.. Yeah.. those technically aren't ferrules.. but everybody seems to call it that when it doesn't have something to protect your finger. Spacer works for me too.

As to layer.. I forgot to keep track. I started with 18... hmmm... 144 I believe. But maybe I folded one more. I should keep notes.
 
Randy I believe that for something to be a ferrule it must be hollow rather than a solid piece like mine.
 
ScottRoush said:
Thank Karl.. Yeah.. those technically aren't ferrules.. but everybody seems to call it that...
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Thanks, Scott. I seem to see lots of long time makers and collectors, alike, misuse the term "ferrule", and the difference between a ferrule and a spacer is HUGE!
But this one actually looked like the handle material went INTO what I thought might have been a ferrule.
 
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