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More progress on the pointy stick project. Today i forged a D shaped guard and hot fitted it. Handle also sized properly. Tomorrow I'll need to do a final hot adjust to fit it flush against the...

So in Belgium it's actually pretty simple, though not always clear :D
There are illegal weapons. They are illegal to own, sell, carry, or manufacture. These are things like balisong knives, throwing...

Over here, sword canes are illegal. Can't own them. There is an exception for antiques which you are allowed to collect if I recall correctly, but not carry.
I've seen a couple at antiques markets....

The pointy stick is starting to look like a sabre. Weight is down to 350 grams.
I think nest step is making a handle because I want to make a forged D guard on this one and for that I need to be...

No this is from a broken sword with the heat treatment still intact. I got it via So Yamashita way back.
I do have 1 final piece left from those 4 you sent me.

1600s katana razor in progress. I cut the rough outline and carefully and painstakingly ground in primary hollows. With differentially hardened steel this is very tricky because the wheel alternates...

Progress on the pointy stick project. The beveling is done. In hindsight, i should not have done the tang first, but we live and learn. Overall, I am not unhappy. The beveling went well enough, and...

This is before beveling. The cross section is still rectangular.
In sword making, you generally make a straight blank first with the correct width and taper. Depending on what you are making, you...

2 8/8 razors, 1 9/8.
The bottom ones are wootz, the top one is 4x4 40 or so layers twisted basket weave.

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And because my daughter spurred me on, a pointy stick aka sabre. It's a...

Yes. This is what I got from a sword expert:
“Miyoshi Nagamichi Kanbun Era Iwashiro Province
Miyoshi more like the name of the school or line of swordsmiths.
The name belonged to two groups. One...

Fixed handle razor project about to begin. The steel is a broken 1500s katana. Original heat treatment is intact so the shaving edge will be the edge the smith created about 500 years ago.

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forging a knife with my youngest

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I've said many times 'I think I'm starting to understand wootz' and many times I was wrong. Or at least, I understood yet another aspect of wootz but then there was something else that eluded me. I'm...

Freshly etched wootz blade

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Currently working on my house :p
In razor related news, I'm making damascus billets for another razor maker and finishing up some commissions. I have too many plans and not enough time. I'll start...

Inlays are cool but tricky to do. Nice work!

Glad to see my video is useful. I think that one is from the first time I went to TX. It was filmed in Charlie's shop.

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The same bars with more progress.
Top is o1, 02, 52100, 15n20. 6/8 thick, 1.75 wide, very long.
Bottom is o2...

I am working on a kitchen knife that has gone through 7 iterations of forge welding and manipulation (folding some pieces, twisting others, crushing and then combining, ...). I started with 1.3 kilos...

For those wondering: When you make damascus, you always lose the ends of the bar and some of the outside. So it doesn't make sense to make just enough for 1 razor. Because you lose way too much...

In preparation of the winter months where opportunities to forge may be sparse, I'm building up damascus stock. This is just a part of what i did today.

Bottom is 45 layers of 15N20 and O2.
The...

It was new tamahagane which I got from Bob Kramer via a mutual friend.
I do have some pieces of ancient Japanese swords for tamahagane, as well as raw tamahagane nuggets from Daniel O Connor.

Top to bottom: O2, XC130, XC130, wootz, tamahagane.
The top will be a more traditional design. The next one down will be a predator design, and the next 3 will be my Ottoman design.

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A wootz chef, fresh out of the etch, with mammoth rib handle and stabilized mammoth molar bolster.

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I have a love / hate relationship with wootz.
When something doesn't go right and the pattern is vague and dark for some reason, I hate it with a passion.
But when the pattern turns out great... I...