Thank you for the compliments...but really this isn't all that hard to do...like I have said many times it is simply "Dark Age Tech"..now it can get complicated but all that means is it takes a bit more time. If I can do this stuff anyone can, believe me..If you know how to weld and have the patience and understanding of the materials and how they respond under the hammer you can do this..Just takes a bit of practice and time...
The really sad thing is that 99% of the folks "out there" simply do not know that the Europeans ever made blades in the fashion, and frankly, these leave to Japanese blades in the dust when it comes to complexity of construction...For some reason the Japanese smiths get all the "glory" and the European smiths are ignored. Sigh....The real rub is the fact that the European smiths were doing this at least 700 years before the Japanese were...
Anyway....Will post more pics of this once I get them taken..
JPH
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