David Croyle#PhotoOfTheDay is a string of random snaps I took along the process of forging my table knife from a piece of broken spring or something. As requested by @kr1st. Part 1 of 2.
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#PhotoOfTheDay PART 2 of 2.
Random snaps I took along the process of forging my table knife from a piece of broken spring or something. If I'd had more forethought there would be more and better photos. :) As requested by @kr1st.
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Alex KR1ST/PA1ST@croyle Very cool! You said earlier that those specks were caused by hammering. Could it also be caused by impurities in the steel?
That knife looks super sharp!
Thanks for sharing these pictures. It's so nice to see how you made something so beautiful out of something so raw.
@kr1st Thanks! Again.
Those spots are definitely hammer marks and not impurities in the steel. I've actually never seen steel that was so impure that you could see chunks of discoloration in it, even when people started with raw iron ore that they smelted themselves.
The knife is reasonably sharp but not as sharp as I often make knife blades. Sometimes you want a butter knife sharp, other times an edge that will cleanly slice a sheet of paper, and I think this one was between those.