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Old 04-23-2018, 02:26 PM
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The stock removal method is a simple approach into knife making due in part to the space requirements. A wide variety of tools that can be used to perform the task from files to disc grinders and so on. If forging, you'll have to have some room as well as a place that doesn't provoke the irritation of your neighbors that may hear the hammering of steel. Both generate their own noises so one for the other in that respect.

If the challenge of making your own steel draws you, then forging is worth the pursuit. With stock removal, the steel is already ready to go in varying types of offerings (Carbon, stainless) for shaping and when done sent out for heat treating. Then doing the final clean-up and handle work.

Your user name had me thinking; 痛い (itai) - ouch


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