Fox Creek

Looks very good to me. Yes, the blast on the front is awkward, but just take it out and move it to the side and you have a very nice sidedraft forge. You are cookin' man:D

That is really very nice. It will cut well forever in the right hands, and age qracefully. That's the best that can happen to a knife.

Jim, I have always admired your use of bone. I have delved into bone processing only once with mixed success. I bought a bunch of raw big steer leg bones from a country packing house out a side road from Memphis out to about Arlington. 'cost $0.69 per LB. They apologized for the price, but said the Asian restaurants bought all the bones to make soup stock and drove the price up. I boiled the bones in a stong solution of SODA. Washing soda, Soda Ash, Pearl Ash, Salatus, Carbonate of soda; Sodium Carbonate. Much like TSP, it will degrease and clean nicely. Useful stuff to keep around the shop. I didnt end up with much useful bone.

Very witty and gentle Uri. Namaste! Just think what that one or two tools made of the solid carbides or high speed air-hardening steels in action would have looked like to the Medieval smith with his wrought iron and semi-steel? MajiK, no doubt! I had never thought through the task of cutting hammer eyes; I dont make hawks, but read much from others of the travail involved and the varying methodology. The carbide chisel sounds like it might be a real break through for the hawkforger-people. They must be expensive for sure. You imagine you would have to have a well set up shop order the blank and grind it for you. Big nasty job. How much performance would be lost if one settled for a good high speed steel chisel instead? Your pick of steels. Thanks, Fox Creek