I've been lucky enough to have in my home one of the finest japanese style blades made.
I saw this huge sword blade at Larry Harley's hammer-in with a bunch of the "big guys" clustered around it ooohing and ahhhing. I could see the hamon from 40 feet away and when I elbowed my way into the circle saw that it looked like the corona of the sun during a total solar eclipse.
I understood even better how special it was when I learned that Louis had cut the trees to make the charcoal himself that he used to produce the carbon steel from the iron sand he dug out for the blade. The blade had survived the 2 in 3 chance of breaking during the water quench and that no defects popped up during Louis's initial polish.
Howard Clark, Rick Furrer, Larry Harley, Wess Byrd all thought it was the finest thing they had ever seen and I couldn't disagree with them (especially since I know less than a fraction of what any one of them knows).
I saw this huge sword blade at Larry Harley's hammer-in with a bunch of the "big guys" clustered around it ooohing and ahhhing. I could see the hamon from 40 feet away and when I elbowed my way into the circle saw that it looked like the corona of the sun during a total solar eclipse.
I understood even better how special it was when I learned that Louis had cut the trees to make the charcoal himself that he used to produce the carbon steel from the iron sand he dug out for the blade. The blade had survived the 2 in 3 chance of breaking during the water quench and that no defects popped up during Louis's initial polish.
Howard Clark, Rick Furrer, Larry Harley, Wess Byrd all thought it was the finest thing they had ever seen and I couldn't disagree with them (especially since I know less than a fraction of what any one of them knows).
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