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Just finished the sheath for this one. 1095, bog oak, red deer antler and copper, let me know what you think...

I've long been on a search for how to recreate historical brass and dovetail pipe tomahawks as the British imported during the North American fur trade but was never really happy with my personal results. Even worked with a foundry to cast my own, but discovered I can modify the modern imported ones into nice reproductions that have proved popular. WIP of my process on my blog post https://www.irontreeforge.com/post/import-trade-tomahawk Here's a couple pictures, two of mine and one original for comparison. Thanks for looking!

Also forged me a seax. Its sandwich high carbon steel between construction steel and about 22 cm long. Also 8 + mm thick at this moment, so I hope to end up with correct historical thickness. It needs to go once more into fire to be straightened before the grind.

I bought a 14" wheel.

I have the 48" radius platen from Bill Behnke. I use it for chefs S grinds. But it's definitely too subtle a hollow grind for narrower knives. Even the 36" radius would not work. You'd need max 12" radius(24" diameter wheel equivalent) I believe, but such a platen would build heat very quickly, if it ever exists. For your needs, better stick to the standard rubber contact wheel IMO...I know the larger ones are expensive, but you save a lot of cleanup time because the rubber backing is great for use of fine and structured abrasive belts.

This the blade with the found pattern. It's really hard to get a picture of it. I think this is part of an experimental billet from several years ago. The steels were 80crv2 and something else with a similar makeup. It's got 2 hours of etch at this point, and there is hardly any depth to it. It's more hada than damascus, Itame or O-Mokume. It does make me wish that I had done a differential HT, but it's way too thin at this point to retry. I've got the handle components pretty well squared away, so it should be done early next week. Geoff

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That part right in front of the guard makes me think its an old file turned into a knife?