Hello dear Steeminas,

first of all, sorry for not making the Part II of the How to Make a Knife, it was my wife's birthday and I simply didn't have the time.

Until I do make the tutorial video, I'll show you this little jewel - a smaller Gyoto that I did with a magnetic stand.
It is a gift for a friend of mine so it was a bit of a relaxed build - no $ - no pressure :)



It really did come out quite nice, but enough of self-praise, first the stats and then build progression to the final product in a video.

Steel: 1095 - differential heat treatment, acid hamon
Handle (from the blade): +5000 YO abonos (bog oak), Corian and plum.
Lenght: blade 190mm, AO 320
Height: 57mm
Stand: same piece of abonos with cracks filled with died resin

Profile rough-outed pre heat treatment



Just out of the heat treatment - I always seem to forget to take a pic before HT so I can show how they look like with clay on



40 grit - clean and after a quick dip into acid




Done on the grinder - took her up to 400



Checking the hamon pre hand sanding



Hamon poping up at 800 grit hand sanded



Bedding the tang
This is done by coating the tang with beeswax and jamming it into the handle while glueing the handle. What this does is assures everything stays aligned during the glueing and making it possible to remove the knife in order to profile the handle.





Dry fit before the final etch

And she's done

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