Making my first damascus fixed blade

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This will be chisel/convex ground.
 
Nice gridwork!

BTW, did you save the scraps for use as guards, bolsters or small knives?
 
Nope, not much left.
 
Subscribed to this one, this is one WIP I wanna watch, I like yer lines Matt looks like it'll balanced to the front a little bit, I like the bigger ones a little heavier up front. I can see where this'll be a great slasher, I wanna see some bottle cuts and some bamboo chops, maybe a little Lynn Thompson field testin'... ;)
 
This is ready to go to HT.

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Etching with hydrochloric acid.

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After 12 hours.
 
12 hours seems awful long for not a very deep etch.

are you diluting the hydrochloric acid?
 
Yup, cut 2/3 water.
 
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One last thing to do now... List it for sale :p
 
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