Interesting and unusual knife, opinions please!

[Roland_M]

Hi Detlef,

Good job! A final grit of around 1000 should be enough plus a finish with the red japanese rust eraser (kc91 or so).
I'm interested to see the result of the staining. But this sword was never intended to be a pattern welded eye-candy. So it will be pretty difficult to make a contrastful finish.


Roland

[Sajen]

Originally Posted by Roland_M

Good job! A final grit of around 1000 should be enough plus a finish with the red japanese rust eraser (kc91 or so).

Hi Roland,
it has the final finish with 1000 paper grit also when it don't look like this in the picture.

Originally Posted by Roland_M

But this sword was never intended to be a pattern welded eye-candy. So it will be pretty difficult to make a contrastful finish.

Agree with you but it will look better when stained.

Best regards,
Detlef

[Sajen]

Here the finished work, the blade is polished and etched with lemon juice. Excuse the picture quality, it's rather dark here in Germany.
Rolands and mine assumption was correct, the blade show only a hardened edge but not a contrast lamination.