New Folder

joshsmith

joshsmith

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Here's a new folder I just finished and have available. Sorry about the picture quality. Also I have a new fototime site. www.joshsmithknives.fototime.com

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Amazing as usual, Josh.
Your steel is something that reaches out to new
hights with every new knife you make.........

All the best,
David Darom (ddd)
 
That pattern is very impressive and the bluing really makes it pop. Terrific work.

Roger
 
Josh, that's a great looking folder :thumbup: Beautiful lines !

If you don't mind me asking, nitre blue ?
 
what do you mean sorry about the picture...IT LOOKS GREAT!...blue like that is incredible
 
Josh, its true. The picture is actually really good. It makes me wonder what surprises there are that the photo doesn't show.
 
Thanks a lot guys. Point seven is shooting it now before it goes to the customer. I'll post that shot when I get it. Thanks again.
 
Great knife Josh. I get how you got that pattern, but what I'm wondering is how you "unfolded" it. Was it a standard accordian cut or something different? I'm not seeing the distortion that I'm accustomed to seeing in unfolded mosaics.

Thanks,

-d
 
This billet was not accordion cut. It was actually stacked fairly large and then plates were sliced off. Those plates can then be rewelded back together if the piece of Damascus desired is bigger than the plates. If the pattern is predistorted I can roll those plates out quite large with my rolling mill. There's another method we like to refer to as the "Ferry Flip" that is a series of tiles flipped and re-welded. Much of these techniques I have to credit Tom Ferry and/or Ed Schempp for. I use a combination of techniques learned from these two and others. Tom might be doing to neatest stuff out there with geometric design and Ed has broke a lot of ground utilizing his rolling mill.

Accordions have their place no doubt but it's been a few years since I've done one. The main reason is I prefer to have much less material loss. I can create multiple patterns from one billet knowing I'm going to lose little to no material in my final steps.

The rolling mill is another huge factor in maximizing my initial billet size to finished product ratio. I'm still learning to maximize my rolling mills potential, which is seemingly unlimited.
 
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