Hira Zukuri Tanto in Beech "Shirasaya"

Damn! That is some outstanding work. I like the way you mix it up with your knifemaking. Your skill progression is off the charts. Keep up the great work and amaze me again.
 
Stuart,

Exemplary work, I really like it !
Lookimg forward to seeing the longer tanto you alluded to !

Doug
 
Stuart - very impressive work. Good to see you branching out and doing so well with such a different style. Well done!

Roger
 
Again very nice work Stuart. As STeven, I was pleasantly surprised upon opening this thread. The diversity you are demonstrating this early on in the knives you're creating is amazing.

As quite a few terms are being tossed around here I thought it may be helpful for some following this thread if I shared a diagram from the CKCA "custom knife design and construction forum" to help familiarize with some of these terms. Hope I haven't taken an inappropriate liberty here. If so, let me know and I will edit this post.
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Thanks so much guys. The encouragement and kind words mean a great deal to me.

Good diagram Kevin. I'll save a copy for myself.
 
I think it came out gorgeous Stuart!!! :thumbup: :cool: :thumbup: :cool:

Be careful with those episodes of scratching 5 hours of work, you're starting to sound like somebody else I know ;) LOL

Your diversity is awesome! :)
 
Ha Ha..thanks Nick.. That's kinda part of what I meant when I said "I went all Nick Wheeler on this one." Not only the slow process of lemon juice etching time and time again, but more so the detours, not liking the result and starting over... twice. :p

Can't wait 'til my loose abrasives show up so I can obsess properly. :D
 
Stuart that is very cool as has been all your work . Kevin thanks for adding the chart to this thread .
 
Very Nice job!! You have a good eye for "lines",, great fit and finish! Can you tell me more of this video by Walter Sorrell? I got the itch to make Japanese style knives after I "collected" 3 real swords (3oo years old) and fell in love with the quality!!
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Great first piece Stuart :thumbup:
For me it looks very Japanese even though it doesn't has any Japanese characters anywhere on the blade :D
Congrats :)

mohd
 
Very nice, have you thought of using natural stones for revealing the hamon?
 
Well done, especially for a first! Don't know how I missed this the first time around.

I like the beech. Understated and not gaudy, unlike some non-traditional "shirasaya" that I've seen.
 
This is a very beautiful and clean sword, SBranson.
Thanks for sharing.
Cannot wait to see your next one.
 
Thank you everyone for commenting!

Regarding traditional stones, a buddy at work has been making fun of me because he knows that at some point I will have to try traditional polishing even though it will take weeks.
I am under the impression, though perhaps in error, that the final finishing stones do not work as effectively on modern monosteels as they do tamahagane.
 
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