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Month: July 2024

Forged Damascus kitchen knife with deer antler handle

July 24, 2024July 25, 2024 Blue Moose Leave a comment

For today’s blog I’m going to talk about another one of my favorite projects, a nice little kitchen paring knife I forged from a chunk of steel cable (of the type used for elevators). I folded the steel over several times to create a layered ‘Damascus’ tear-drop effect. It’s hard to see in some of […]

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