Mine all come out with different character, curious how much variation there is out there.

After four bottle openers, five abandoned efforts (always mess up the nose) and one as a finiale, I am down to about 55 minutes forging and about 20 heats.

xxxx, doug. excellent work.

I'm still working on making the tooling from his book. Nice work!

This is a letter opener wizard I did shortly after taking his course at Touchstone, I have made a few now, but the nose is always a problem, the friends I have given them to don't seem to mind much, but I hold mine uo next to the one Mark did in class, (I won the raffle for it) an the differences are remarkable, and my remarks are something like..... rassafrassa, hurrsa burrsa, dadgumminet varrrrrmint!!!

that is awesome Doug. I may have to check into a possible new Christmas present or two