Thread: Patriot in Damascus

Another one in O2/L6 Damascus. Over 8/8 in size.

This one is called The Patriot. It is a very bold blade, compact, with an attitude. It obviously needed Red White and Blue kirinite scales.
As an experiment, I wanted to try something to 'make it all work together'. I removed the fire scales from the spine, but didn't sand away the thin decarburized layer, because this way the spine would show little white specs after etching, symbolizing the stars on the RWB flag (the scales).

As expected, I didn't get a uniform start pattern, but It kinda worked. Not sure if I can call it a complete success. I could sand it off an re-etch it uniform without the white spots. what do you think?