Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

I must to losing my grip in my old age

Hold on now! If you live in Florida, you probably have access to the ocean. You can get you some jellyfish and start eating them. That's the key ingredient in Prevagin. You can bypass all the bad stuff and get more of the homeopathic natural ingredients. Please eat you some jellyfish and report back in 6 months on how this worked out for you! You can Thank me later!

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I didn't put this in "the butchered blade," thread (sorry, not sorry Mike) because, as much todo as I made and as thoroughly infuriated as I was it is not really "butchered." In the grand scheme of things it's a hiccup.

So here's the initial reshape



A little fine tuning needed still but I'm going to try a test bevel for starters and prolly put 40 winks between me and more alterations. I'm not totally displeased with this shape though.

Fixed handle razor project about to begin. The steel is a broken 1500s katana. Original heat treatment is intact so the shaving edge will be the edge the smith created about 500 years ago.

Originally Posted by Bruno

Fixed handle razor project about to begin. The steel is a broken 1500s katana. Original heat treatment is intact so the shaving edge will be the edge the smith created about 500 years ago.

Wow. There’s some history in that metal. Do you know anything about it’s journey from its manufacture to you?

Originally Posted by DZEC

Wow. There’s some history in that metal. Do you know anything about it’s journey from its manufacture to you?

Yes. This is what I got from a sword expert:
“Miyoshi Nagamichi Kanbun Era Iwashiro Province
Miyoshi more like the name of the school or line of swordsmiths.
The name belonged to two groups. One group from Oshu-Aizu, the other Mutsu. I have a feeling this is Miyoshi Denshiro of the Aizu group, later Miyoshi Toshiro, 3rd gen., sandai, Genroku period, who committed suicide and whose brother Miyoshi Masanaga was ordered to continue the line.”

I know that it was a very long sword because of the length of the tang, and I was told that most likely it was broken in battle because swords of that length were really for battlefield use.
Other than that I know very little. The point was reground for use as a short sword.
My first post wasn't entirely correct. It is 1600s not 1500s.

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That is a very cool project Bruno.

Doing a rescale w/covered tang, for our member, Mafuzal.



Was originally going to do this in acrylic, but the material was too thick for me to work with, by hand. So we decided on a exotic, hardwood. Black n white ebony was my first choice, but after cutting the blanks, there was nothing that popped in the grain, so I've cut others from some Guatamala Rose wood, also known as Coyote.

Not going to show any pics till its done, I wanna leave it a surprise.

Super cool mike, can't wait to see it all done up.