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09-18-2015, 03:00 PM | #1 |
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That's pretty amazing Ben. I used to make knives in high school shop on the gas-fired forge. (Yes, I know - that would get you expelled from school these days.) They weren't made out of meteorites, but old files. They weren't anything like that guy makes, but I was pretty proud of them at the time. There is something about pounding out a shape from red hot steel on an anvil with a hammer that gives you a sense of pride. It was probably the only thing I did in shop that turned out well. I made a butcher knife for my Mom and she used it for years and years.
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I like knives. The Bowie knife was made from a meteorite, you know.
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Two things in the video really impressed me. Well three if I count the tall guy talking too much.
Steel is brittle, when the master put the blade in a vice & bent it...well he's in the Samurai sword area of quality steel. I assume sandwiching the steel has something to do with that. And I've heard of the molecules aligning making a shadow in the steel during heat treating but I never saw it before. As the young people would say today, 'that was awesome'. To a lesser extent I've got to say the guy can sharpen & strop a finished knife like...well, you know an expert.
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Yeah - I should take lessons from him.
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