150mm honyaki petty

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150mm honyaki petty

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I have been trying to get this in the works for a little bit. Finally got it finalized, heres a mock up of a 150mm honyaki petty in w2 steel
Still needs a final edge and a saya, got three knives in the works lol.
Semi mirror polish to show more hamon and aid in food release(my pass around knife might be to mirrored) with a convex grind
Less taper on the spine to give it less flex but more taper down to the edge.
Left some hammer marks because i didn't want it to thin and Im a fan of the contrast.
Purple heart, black polymer and birds eye maple burl handle
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Looks great, Dakota!
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slobound wrote: Fri May 26, 2017 8:57 am Looks great, Dakota!
thanks Garrick!
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Willison_Knives wrote: Fri May 26, 2017 8:45 am I have been trying to get this in the works for a little bit. Finally got it finalized, heres a mock up of a 150mm honyaki petty in w2 steel
Still needs a final edge and a saya, got three knives in the works lol.
Semi mirror polish to show more hamon and aid in food release(my pass around knife might be to mirrored) with a convex grind
Less taper on the spine to give it less flex but more taper down to the edge.
Left some hammer marks because i didn't want it to thin and Im a fan of the contrast.
Purple heart, black polymer and birds eye maple burl handle
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This frankly looks awesome.

How did you get the hamon to pop out like that?
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This frankly looks awesome.

How did you get the hamon to pop out like that?
Thank you!

it has to do with the steel and a mix of how I polish. I used to run through the grits till 2-3k
What i did this time around was skip certain grits to get a mixed almost dull mirror polish.
Etched out and then cleaned up with mothers mag and aluminum polish
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Willison_Knives wrote: Fri May 26, 2017 2:06 pm

This frankly looks awesome.

How did you get the hamon to pop out like that?
Thank you!

it has to do with the steel and a mix of how I polish. I used to run through the grits till 2-3k
What i did this time around was skip certain grits to get a mixed almost dull mirror polish.
Etched out and then cleaned up with mothers mag and aluminum polish
Cool, thanks for the explanation. I thought it might be some jnat magic or voodoo or something!
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I went back and changed the handle. Its now a d shape and much more fitting to the blade. Finished Dyed poplar saya. Friction fit so no pin is needed to be lost lol
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