My Knives #17 - when Hephaestus give you lemons

Hello dear Steemians,

This post will be about a knife I did for a friend of mine that help me a lot over the years. He's a graphic designer who has been solving a lot of my (and Perinas) design problems for almost a decade.

Among other things, he did our wedding invitations and he made my logo all pretty.

And, we haven't really paid him a lot - well, if I'm being honest, we haven't paid him a dime.

I did promise him I'll make him a knife, but for one reason or another, his knife kept being bumped down.

And along comes the greedy bastard Hephaestus and kicks me in the balls two times on the same build.

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The first one was ruined, but on the second one I decided to make a knife out of it no matter what.

And so began my struggle against the limping bastard.
There is a saying Bladesmiths don't make mistakes, they just make smaller knives but this one was a bit tricky.
Oh, and I was so pissed off that I hardly took any pics along the way.

Here it is just after the HT, and before I even noticed the crack

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I had to grind out quite a big part of the blade our and was left with a completely different profile and a handle that was way too long.
Here it is after the rough grind and the test etch

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And here is where all the rest of the pics would go if I had them

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Anywho, I've managed to bring it to the end, and a kinda strange looking all-around knife emerged.

It was a struggle but I think I'll call it a win no matter what Hephaestus says.

I met with Darko yesterday and officially gave him the knife and he was quite happy. I think he gave up on ever getting one, so it was a bit of an extra surprise.

And that's it. Thanks for stopping by and see you soon...