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Thanks Kevin that means a lot coming from you, especially since your work was what helped me learn to look for some of those traits in the first place. :D

Yesterday I received a pleasant surprise in my email, a new photograph from Caleb Royer of a knife I finished about a month of so ago and I thought I would share it. This was a fun project for a client over seas where he gave me pretty much full artistic freedom which is a wonderful opportunity...

Well I had another nice photo from Caleb Royer sent over today that I have been dying to share. I finished this one around Halloween and it was built around the idea of "what would Van Helsing use?" For those unfamiliar Van Helsing is the original slayer of Dracula and was the center of a...

Both are SOLD!

These are the last two of a limited run of bushcraft knives I did last year, I've decided to finally sell them now that I have caught up on orders and wanted to offer an inexpensive knife closer to the holidays. These knives are hand forged 1095 with differential hardening and a sandblasted acid...

Thank you everyone for the kind words :) Oh and I forgot to mention this madrone burl came from John Doyle so if you see his wood up for sale it's definitely nice stuff.

- I realized that I forgot to post a couple of pictures from yesterday, so before I take off here is where I am at currently. The handle, bronze spacer, and pattern welded spacer are now fit onto the handle leaving only the main guard left to be fitted which will be done upon my return...

Well unfortunately this project will have to be put on hold for a few days as there was a death in the family and I have to travel for the funeral. But after I am back everything should come together fairly quickly. Thanks again for looking at this thread while the work progresses. Robert

Today's progress: The blade is all polished up and hidden away from prying eyes...muhaha! But in all seriousness I forgot to take a photo of the nearly finished blade before putting the wrappings on and didn't want to go to the trouble of unwrapping it. :) And finally after 16 hours of...

Well I am finally making progress on this hamon and it is sure tricky to bring out but it's getting there!

So unfortunately I only have one photo today, I am hoping to have all the polishing and etching done by Monday, but as of today one entire side and the spine are at 1500 grit:

Okay so here is today's progress, nothing too exciting just polishing... endless polishing... Here I have polished the ricasso and clip to a rough 1,000 grit Then up to 1500 And then the spine bevels brought up to 1500 And then just at the very end of the day I started sanding...

So yesterday and today I was able to make some progress on this project. I am glad to report that this time the blade was successfully heat treated and from everything that I can see should have a pretty active hamon. So here is the blade rough ground before heat treat: Starting to go...

Here is a recent knife I finished (about a month and a half ago) that I had photographed by Caleb Royer and to say the least I am always pleased with his work and how he can capture all of the subtle details in the woods and damascus patterns. I have really been enjoying playing with the twisted...

Okay so after a brief absence I am back to say this project is still going. I had to head up to Grand Marais to teach an ax course for the past week so the knife was put on hold for a bit but it now back on track. Here is the as forged blade with some quick sharpie marking to outline from the...

Update: With this being a "live" work in progress there are always bound to be set back and this is one. While conducting the heat treatment the blade cracked quite severely in several places :( But I view this as a blessing in disguise because the hada was too prominent in the previous...

For today's progress I only have a few photos for you unfortunately. But since today is my wife's birthday I have to hurry home and make dinner :blink: So here is the knife profiled and sketched on to show the rough layout of where everything will go, I'm not sure if the initial sketches so...

Thanks for the comments guys! Here is today's progress Yesterday I ended with a single large bar at around 300 layers, this bar I then cut into four separate pieces to bring the end layer count up to 1,200ish layers. Then I got the forge going and up to welding temp: Welded under the...

Thanks for following along everyone and for all of the comments, here is today's progress. Well the hitachi #2 arrived today! Very excited (Friday): And was promptly placed into the billet and prepped for welding. This is one of the largest billets I have worked under my 50 lb little...

Well I have had this project kicking around in my head for a while and finally have some time to get around to it. I have been entranced by Japanese blades (as many of us are) for some time, specifically in hamon and hada development. It was last year when I saw some of J.D. Smith's work that I...