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Building a Forge and Making Knives, Part Four.

Posted by gil on February 22, 2010

I have been pretty busy forging, with the completion of a scimitar inspired knife out of a railroad spike, hardened in water, and a sort of tanto for my friend Phil who provided me with steel for a new anvil and helped me build it. The tanto was differentially hardened vi the clay method using Satanite refractory cement and transmission fluid for the quench.

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