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Ekillian, I'm one the lamos who still uses dial-up, but I tried to wait for the pics here, then tried your site out, and it looks like the pics you use were never optimized for web browsing, but just resized. I waited a LONG time and the pics were only getting to be about 1/3 done! That's the biggest pain in making a website. Anyway, hopefully I'll have a chance to jump on a broadband connection sometime today and check out your hawks!
 
Chiro75, Dude, I am so sorry... :o

I am not very computer savvy, I thought I was doing it right.

The pics are 75 dpi and 600x480 or so.. What should they be? I'll change them.

I know I've said this before but, your knives are awesome. I really like high carbon blades, and the hamons are soooooo cool(I have tried many times to get a good hamon on some blades, but they escape me.)

Eddie
 
I don't speak the language of pixels and DPI and stuff. Sorry. I know that for pics intended to just be seen on the screen, anything over 72dpi is overkill. All I do is "save for web" in Photoshop, pic the option that looks good and is still optimized and save it. I guess that's why that software costs $400! :D If I didn't have el-lame-o dialup it wouldn't even be a concern.

With 1050 you should be able to get a passable hamon, no? THAT would be cool... a hamon on a hawk! Let me research it. If I can find out how to do it then you could send me an un-HT'd hawk and I'd do it and send it back. It'd be more of a display piece, but how cool would that be?!

Research done: I thought so... tons of swords and a lot of knives like Corkum's are 1050, so you can do a clay coating and quench in oil no problem. If you want to collaborate on one send me a ground, but un-HT'd blank and I'll do it and send it back. I'm thinking I wouldn't be able to fit a hawk in my little paint can forge, so I'd say the "blade" length would probably have to be 3" or so, max, because I'd be open-air heating it to critical temp.
 
Some of the images are ~350k, which can take awhile on dialup. Usually what people do are create smaller versions to give people a quick overview, and then link them to the higher res versions.

-Cliff
 
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