Friend's brother made a knife

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Friend's brother made a knife

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A guy I work with has a brother who makes stuff out of metal. He's building a hot rod with amazing bumpers and such.

Anyway, he made this knife out of a hoof rasp. Enjoy...
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That is weird and disturbed and fascinating and a lovely piece of work all at the same time. I'd like to see more of his work.
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If that's one of his early efforts, he's doing well. He's got many of the basic concepts in it and he can polish well.
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Sweet.

My personal fave was a guy with a forge at the ren faire; he'd gotten his hands on 2" twisted steel bridge cables being discarded, torch cut them into 12 inch sections, and then pounded them into the most incredible Damascus blades I've ever seen.
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That is too cool. Are the serrations still rough to the touch?
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It's not really a blade shape I personally like, but a very nice piece of work. The handle is great.
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Darrell wrote:That is too cool. Are the serrations still rough to the touch?
No. He ground the ... filey bits off. That's what's left of the working part of the file/rasp.
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Aesop wrote:Sweet.

My personal fave was a guy with a forge at the ren faire; he'd gotten his hands on 2" twisted steel bridge cables being discarded, torch cut them into 12 inch sections, and then pounded them into the most incredible Damascus blades I've ever seen.
It's called "Wire Damascus". Typically, they use a welder on both ends to hold the bundle together whiled it's being forge welded.
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NICE!
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very nice , cool effect.
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