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I didn’t leave good enough alone, should of listened to all you guys before I started in with the last wheel.

Everything was dandy on the first attempt until it wasn’t, the blade before the hollow starts tapering towards the spine is like .005”, I got a little thinner back towards the heel and about a 1/4...

You were right about attempting a full hollow, I had a chance to do all the grinds. The food was definitely worth the lost time.

First attempt:
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It behaves better than I had hoped. I did some stropping with just the blade before starting my finish sanding to see if anything would scratch the strop. The point was the only thing so I rounded...

That means a lot coming from you, Charlie. Thank you so much for making your shop and experience available to us.

Sorry for the not sweeping up the wool under the grinder before I left on the...

One thing at a time. I got the sickness bad. Scott said it best “forging, it gets in your blood”. Been thinking about an etching setup but no idea what kind of design or name to use. I really...

Well after a first dismal failure I went back to the forge and banged out another. I got the blade ht’d and tempered and finished the hollows at the meet then finished up the sanding and scales at...