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Here you go then

African Blackwood from burl source , blond horn ferrule and end cap, nickel spacer . This one will be going to a 270mm workhorse wa gyuto in 52100
Only rough ground at 50 grit at this stage

 

Go ahead, Brad, get you some!!!

 

Had more chance to practise forging today , will be forging all of my carbons from now on


It's a hitachi blue2 laminate billet and hopefully I will get a small gyuto or funayuki out of it



Make it pointy



Make it wide



Some more



After this I cut the billet in half , shaped the tang



Going in for normalising



Fixed the shape bit too

Now it's annealing , will take more pictures once I make progress

 

Very nice. When I'm grown up, I wanna try this also

Stefan

 

SICK!!!

 

To be honest I had no idea that I would be trying to forge a knife if someone told me a year ago , I would have bought a bigger and proper anvil, we are looking to move to a bigger house with a big workshop , hopefully I will have a decent set up then . Here it's after annealed

 

With the second half of the billet I will make a 210mm line knife

 

Managed to heat treat the first knife I forged from that billet at the break between lunch and dinner service , it came out quite nice , almost perfect straight , last time I decided to grind the unevenness out and the core steel was exposed not uniformly and the knife was bent slightly because of two steels moving at a different rate over time , this time I straightened out before tempering

Hopefully I will get a good 180mm funayuki with a wa handle

 

Looking good, Mert. Gotta love the funyaki profile!

 

No days off for 2 weeks + and doing big hours takes away from my knifemaking but I hired a sous and gave myself a well deserved day off and worked on some projects
This one is for the brewer at work , he makes some nice hefeweizen , should celebrate it being done with a bottle or two
240mm gyuto forged from 52100 with a buckeye burl from burlsource and a brass , 51mm at the heel, tad under 3mm at the spine and weighing at 201 grams

 

A wa gyuto I just finished , it is hand forged from 52100 , 255mm at the edge , 53mm at the heel , 2.8mm thick at spine and weighs 231 grams , the handle is African Blackwood from burlsource , blond buffalo horn and nickel spacer . Although it's a very good cutter I am bummed about my lack of hammer control , since I couldn't get rid of some forging marks out

 

Neat stuff. Your handles seem to ride very high; have you tried something with a lower tang position and a machi for mounting a bit more level with the spine? Just curious.

 

Newer ones will be more levelled with the handles , these were profiled and heat treated a while ago , ideally I want the handles look more levelled like this one
I have couple left before I switch to this style altogether

 

Great looking knives! Shame about the forging marks, but they add a bit of character to the knife, good selling point

 

Quite cool with the newer style. Several folks have told me to watch developments from you, and I think I can see why.

 

+ 1 to what Warren said........ Darn sexy knives there, sir!

 

Yup I think they add a bit of character. Lovely knives!

 

I like the newer handle alignment and those forging marks wouldn't bother me at all. beautiful knives.

 

Thank you all for your kind words and encouragements

 

Looking great Mert. I can't imagine how you get all this done. Do you ever sleep?