"Vandimion," an integral dagger.

Thanks guys! Really!

Ironwood, the anvil marriage tradition began in a Scottish Village called Gretna Green- English couple would elope there because of English marriage laws, from the mid 1700's to the 1920's. A smith presiding signified a strong weld or bond, he'd ring the anvil like a bell when the wedding was complete, and some smiths presided over thousands of weddings in their day. The homily I wrote and delivered explained the past tradition, but I spun out a lot of anvil and marriage related metaphors on my own, for just about a 5 min. address. I rang the anvil after "man and wife."

It went beautifully. Some of the family in attendance were fundamentalist Christian, while I am not religious at all, and so I worried if I'd be able to provide sufficient pomp and significance to satisfy everyone, with just the anvil thing... and it worked. Now I am to the stress free part of my vacation, camping along the Olympic peninsula with my wife.
 
Have a nice holyday Salem, and when you came back you'll have to put into steel all the Olympic camping inspirations ;)

Stefano
 
Salem, that is one amazing knife. What size was the piece of steel you started with? I assume that it was a combination of forging and machining but i cant even imagine what you started with to end up with that beautiful knife. I also assume that you held your breath during the heat treat; you had to have many many hours into it before the HT, lol.

thanks

randy
 
Thanks Christian! Randy, I started with a chunk of W2 about 1"x2-5/8" round cut off a big round bar of 2-5/8" stock. Then I forged the "fittings" and the blade roughly into a bar from the handle area, ground it flat, milled the fuller in and ground/milled/sawed the details into the fittings etc. Then ground the blade. You're right, HT was done in an anxious frame of mind.
 
Wow....simply wow. The only thing I'm not sure of are the wooden handles. I just wonder how they would feel. But still truly a master piece.
 
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