souvenir knife

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Oh man this brings back memories.

I tried my hand at building a knife once.

It started out going pretty good, too.





I wasn't sure how I was going to make a handle for it, though.

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So, I started making etchings on the blade.



Poor quality old pic is all I've got, but that is supposed to be a dragon blowing fire from about midway up to the point.

Hell, everything was working out much better than I ever thought!

A buddy helped me a little on the research and we learned that swords years ago had gold filled into the grooves.

I didn't have gold, but I was interested in trying it with brass. We had lots of brass at our shop.

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Turned out, trying to get brass into the cracks was a very bad idea.



It never cleaned up. The heating had destroyed/pitted the edge, and it looked ...like crap!

That was the end of that project.