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Bowie style blade was forged from a discarded file, handle is fashioned from a broken axe handle, brass guard from the hardware store: sheath is cedar.

Tomahawk was fashioned by stock reduction from a shingle hatchet.

Smaller blades were fashioned from a discarded carpenter saw blade, handles from cedar and scrap oak.

All blades were annealed, heat-treated in forge, quenched in safflower oil, tempered in a toaster oven.

Homemade forge, homemade anvil. Pictures to follow.


Edited by nursemike (10/02/12 12:25 PM)
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