What it started as
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Then I laid out what I wanted and went to town with the angle grinder and a cutoff wheel
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Little bit of rotary tool smoothing and shaping
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Then I started on the belt sander.... I wanted an single flat face one one side then a heavier working bevel on the other.... Also rounded the nose and did a "false edge" bevel to use it as a spatula as well... I am left handed so a flattened out the right side of the blade and did my bevels on the left.
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Then I drilled for pins and a lanyard and got a wild hair to try a clay quench and see if I could develop a hamon... Today I went to my buddies house and fired up the forge
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Heated till non magnetic and quenched in regular canola oil
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Came back home and knocked off the rest of the clay and did a rough polish to 150 grit to prep for tempering!! But look at the hamon that's already apparent!!!!!!
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Super excited!!!!! Tempering and then final polish tomorrow and might even get the wood scales epoxied on with brass pins and a bronze lanyard fitting done