I was watching Ray Mears' Bushcraft: Sweden, in which he visits a knife maker in Sweden and has a puukko blade made. The last thing the maker does, after heat treat and final grinding, is stamp the blade before handing it to Mears ([video=youtube;nR7N5zuC8WI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR7N5zuC8WI[/video] It's right at 28:00). From various posts here, my understanding was that this would ruin the stamp. So... what gives?
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Question about stamping maker's marks
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Swedish and puukko style blades are usually make with a hard core and softer plain iron sides. Often called a laminated blade. The soft side steel will stamp after HT.
I had a person watching me engrave my Japanese mark on a deba, and he asked how I could use a hand graver to cut such hard steel. As in the Swedish steel, the upper area of the blade is plain iron.
I had a person watching me engrave my Japanese mark on a deba, and he asked how I could use a hand graver to cut such hard steel. As in the Swedish steel, the upper area of the blade is plain iron.