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May 22, 2013
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Blade: Twist pattern damascus
Handle: Blue fossilized brain coral
OAL: 6"

My only wish, is that I had etched the damascus a little deeper. Regardless, I love how it came out. I did this one a little more traditional, as far as the grind goes. It has a chisel grind, which I didn't do on the first kiridashi that I made. I also made a tanto to go with this, which I'll be posting in a few days.

As promised, once my Facebook hits 10k likes, which I'm about 131 likes from getting, I'll do a tutorial. It will be a video tutorial, as well as an article style tutorial that I will post on here. My plan is to do two of them. One in celebration of me actually being caught up and a second for my facebook. One of the tutorials will be over a cleaver, because cleavers are awesome! For the cleaver I'll do a picture a day on my facebook, kind of like the tutorial I did on here ages ago. Then when it's done, I'll compile it all and put it on here. To keep my dA as clean looking as possible.

I mean...I could have OCD or something. lol

Anyway! Fun stuff is coming as well as me being around a little more. :la:


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I'm actually really glad you didn't etch the damascus any deeper on this one. I can't tell for certain from the photo, but this looks perfect. IMHO you have overdone it on some of your knives, and the most beautiful damascus (to my eye) is subtle. But that may just be me.

I really wish you had used another background for this, as the complexity makes it hard to really analyze the contour of the knife.

From what I can see, the spine, tip, and cutting edge are fine, but the curve on the return, following the heel into the handle, the bladeward side of the handle, and possibly the butt of the knife as well, look a little off.
It's hard to talk about curves without drawing a picture, but the best way I know to say it is that the change in the change of the slope of that edge isn't consistent (from what I can see, it may just be a trick of the angle and busy background).
If you use illustrator, or any vector program, an easy way to put it is that there would be too many control points to make that curve; it's a little 'wobbly'. IMO, Just a little more grinding could make a big difference.

Maybe either grind down the heel to follow more of a sin wave, or grind into the return more right above the heel to smooth out the curve coming from the handle, and grind down the handle a little right after the return to make them flow into each other better.

I'd go with the latter. But of course, with any subtractive process, I'm better you can always grind too much trying to fix a minor imperfection that you end up having to grind the rest down more to fix that, and then again, until all you're left with is a toothpick (at least, that's the case with wood and stone; I haven't done much in metal)... so, I guess one always has to stop somewhere and say it's good enough, and this may be that point (particularly if this is a commission).

Aside from that minor nitpick, I just have to say I would have thought the coral would be too busy, but it actually looks really good, particularly with the damascus.
All in all this is a very slick looking knife!