The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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These threads are embarrassing, happen a little too often around here, and always turn me off from this sub forum for a while.
"It's not all about me."--sweetcostarica
If one comes into this forum to do anything other than be friendly, partake in all that this forum offers and purchase what Auntie sells, then they don't belong here and should move on. Preferably before staff has to make an issue of it or make them walk the plank.
Starting to think its time Captain!!
Back to Hasiya.
I have wondered how hard it must be to forge this tool. I tend to think (Play-Dough experience) if you pound one side of a stip of steel repeatedly to form an edge eventually you end up with an edge on the outside of the curvature of the bend much like a Katana (disreguarding quenching). In this case these tools are formed counter to what the steel wants to do naturally. You would get compression and thickening on inside (edge), extension and thinning on the outside (spine). I would love to see how the Kamis forge this piece because it is exactly opposite of what the material wants to do. Do they start out with a super thick spine because it would be constantly thinning as you try to bend the steel around the edge. Does anyone follow what i'm saying?