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Old 04-22-2018, 06:07 PM
epicfail48 epicfail48 is offline
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Stock removal is the name for the second method youre badmouthing, and theres nothing 'cheesy' about it. Id invite you to go out and try making a knife by grinding it out, after about 17 you might end up with something usable. It takes just as much skill to make a stock removal blade, just a different sort of it. Forming the blade is a small part of the overall process to begin with, equally important are heat treatment and fit and finish.

Ignoring the skill requirement that people seem to so much enjoy ignoring, theres the simple fact that theres a lot of steels you cant forge. CPM steels, for example, lose all the benefits they have when you bang on them, being the big thing for them is uniform distribution of the component elements and hammers tend to upset the distribution. Most stainless steels are meant to be ground rather than forged as well. Smaller blades for pocket knives and the like, cant say i know of any maker who forges those, and thats not just me. The ABS actually disallows pocket knives from the journeyman and mastersmith testing because they arent forged

If you dont want to disrespect someone, maybe dont compare their craft to "cutting the shape of a knife out of a pre-made bar like it's playdough". Its rather disrespectful.

Signed, an offended stock-removal maker. Ill put this one against a forged blade any day of the week:

Or this one:


But hey, just punched holes in play-dough, right?
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