WIP: Forged W2: with hamon pics...

[jawilder]

I like your etching technique. Sounds simple and much faster than what I've been doing.

 

[Mike Quesenberry]

Beautiful job bringing out that hamon:thumbup:

 

[silver_pilate]

Thanks, Mike! That means a lot coming from you. I do admire your work. I know it's a random sort of hamon, but that's one of the things I like. Someday I may try harder to make certain patterns within the hamon, but I hope I never go too far and break the spirit of the hamon (to sound all metaphysical ). For now, I kind of like that each blade has its own personality. With the clay that I put on, the heat I applied, and the knife I was working with, this is what the steel wanted to make of itself, and I am fine with it. This one, and probably my next several will be keepers for me. It's about time I built up a collection of my own work to pass down to my son some day.

--nathan

 

[quint]

Thats turning out really nice. Great job with the hamon. W2 is alot of fun to work with when doing that. Good simple technique for a quick etch and polish.

 

[Tom Lewis]

Thanks for the WIP and for sharing your methods.