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    Delightful work, DW. Form follows function in a big way!

    Your blades, bolsters, ferrules, handles just combine together so well. Great functionality; great aesthetics.

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    Quote Originally Posted by IanW View Post
    ... I do like the neatness of bolsters but it's a refinement I'd struggle to do half as well ...

    Perhaps you have just set up a challenge for yourself, Ian?

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    Quote Originally Posted by GraemeCook View Post
    Perhaps you have just set up a challenge for yourself, Ian?
    I think I have enough challenges to keep me from boredom, Graeme. Maybe someday I'll attempt an upgrade on my smithing skills (or should that read "lack of skills")....

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    fortunately, the smithing on these can be kind of rotten for us and nothing more than what blacksmiths refer to as shaping (red to orange heat and hammering to shape, but not significant really high heat forging from the start like you'd do with a drop hammer - as in what someone would do turning a stub cylinder of metal 3" long and 2" wide into a 12" long knife).

    A can forge, torch and an anvil (which is expensive here - a good anvil, that is) is enough for the shaping and then the grinding and filing is minor. The making of the shrink on bolster is not bad, and if a cutting torch is available, forge welding the bolster isn't that difficult (but I'm unconvinced at this point that all of that oxygen from a cutting torch right on the tang and bolster is really a net gain - it keeps the bolster on more securely, but may burn the steel and leave it a bit less tough).

    With a ferrule and a good handle, the shrink on bolster isn't going to move much.

    I think of chisels to the tool making world like a nice pen is to pen turners. You can make a pretty nice one sized a lot in two hours (a little less time for pens - but this set probably has 10 hours of time in it and when you start comparing notes with infill planes or large furniture projects, you can afford to experiment with these and break a few by accident to learn. I've broken three or four hammering straight until I learned about how hard you can hammer and which hammers you can use. Straightening them is a lot like straightening saws, but with more caution.

    Somewhere, there's bar stock that approximates the carbon surplus and hardenability of these chisels, but I haven't found it yet. 1095 definitely isn't it.

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