Forge-welded cable with deep midare hamon.
20 and 7/8th inch nagasa
Hand stoned to 320 grit (binsui-do).
SOLD!

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This article is also available in PDF format with photographs.
I met Michael Bell on August 26, 1984 at a knife show in San Jose, California. It was a momentous meeting which I recall vividly. There were some star players at this show. Of special import was Bernard Levine who introduced me to Michael Bell and, [...]

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Much more progress has been made on the website. The Photo Gallery should be working now, but it will still be tweaked a bit. We are still working on putting more pages and information up.
There may have been some problems posting comments in the past. With the new website there should be [...]

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As you can see by the drastic change in style to the website, we’re making some major updates to the site. Hopefully it will allow us to keep the site up-to-date easily and provide more information.
As of now several features from our old site are still being transfered over: the photo galleries, the calender, [...]

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Basic Forging Course
This is a hands-on course designed to give the student a working familiarity with the tools and metals utilized in the forging of a sword blade. Each student will forge his own blade of at least wakizashi length from forge-welded steel cable.
Skills learned will include forging, grinding, filing and heat-treating, with attendant emphasis [...]

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