Things have been picking up for me, and that is great in most ways. However even though I have been devoting a bit of shop time to my own pursuits, it is normally in making a few extra knives for the market. It is not bad, it is what I want to do and to keep doing. In the past few days however, I have again felt the impulse to do something really strange, outside my normal. I had this idea more than a year ago to make a bronze kitchen knife. I have made over a dozen knives out of bronze and it is a really cool material to work with. It is not like working with steel at all. Yes it is a metal alloy, but that is where the resemblance ceases. It has been many years, but I am feeling an increasing compulsion to make something that is really out there. Not only that, I would really like to have one of my own knives to use. I do have one, but it is from the very beginning and without all of the design changes I have made since. I know that all of our knives are now made of steel with all of its benefits, but our ancestors used bronze tools with great effectiveness for thousands of years. To give you an idea of my skill with bronze, I have made knives out of bronze that would shave hair easily. I am confident that I could make an effective bronze kitchen knife, the only real issue is edge durability. I know the bronze blades would have to be sharpened a bit more often. What do you guys think, am I turned a bit too tight? Thanks, Del
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 02:25:15 +0000
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