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nonjic

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I recently attended a course in London UK taught by Howard Clark, We were making Japanese 'style' swords. Unfortunatly my water quench wasnt 100% succesfull! I managed to salvage this tanto from the blade though.

Learnt more in 5 days than I could have taught myself in a year!

The steel is 1086 V. I can see hamon hunting might be addictive, might have to have a break from patterwelding for a bit!

The blade is pretty well mirror sanded, The finish looks much rougher in the photos than it actually is! - Lots of what look like scratchs are infact dust and smudges. It will need another going over to get it 100% before it gets mounted though. This type of blade requires some serious patience finishing.

All comments appreciated!

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