Lerch
Well-Known Member
Hi all,
i was working on this knife for a buddy and had a odd hamon show up. it doesnt follow the layout of the clay that i put down at all.
here is a pic of a different knife but this is the same outline of clay that i did . the heavy clay layer is on the right obvioulsy, the strange looking line in between the heavy clay layer and the blade edge is where i wiped way the excess clay to form the line i desired.
okay so this is the end results after i sanded down the knife and etched it in ferric chloride a few times and cleaned up with Never Dull.
the hamon only extends part of the way down spine where i placed the clay and the small dot towards the tip of the blade, well i have no idea how that got there. I did a extremely thin layer of satanite clay at first and this was pretty much completely even all over. i dried this in a toaster oven at a little over 100degs and then applied the 1/16" thick layer of clay like you see in the first photo.
well any ideas why the temper lines would have shown up this way? i went ahead and polished up and finished the blade since i think the buddy of mine will appreciate the oddity of the blade, he generally like this kind of thing and the edge seems to be hardened effectively.
any ideas?
thanks
steve
i was working on this knife for a buddy and had a odd hamon show up. it doesnt follow the layout of the clay that i put down at all.
here is a pic of a different knife but this is the same outline of clay that i did . the heavy clay layer is on the right obvioulsy, the strange looking line in between the heavy clay layer and the blade edge is where i wiped way the excess clay to form the line i desired.
okay so this is the end results after i sanded down the knife and etched it in ferric chloride a few times and cleaned up with Never Dull.
the hamon only extends part of the way down spine where i placed the clay and the small dot towards the tip of the blade, well i have no idea how that got there. I did a extremely thin layer of satanite clay at first and this was pretty much completely even all over. i dried this in a toaster oven at a little over 100degs and then applied the 1/16" thick layer of clay like you see in the first photo.
well any ideas why the temper lines would have shown up this way? i went ahead and polished up and finished the blade since i think the buddy of mine will appreciate the oddity of the blade, he generally like this kind of thing and the edge seems to be hardened effectively.
any ideas?
thanks
steve
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