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#PhotoOfTheDay is something different - one of my tidier blacksmithing creations, a table knife that started off as a piece of a very rusty spring or something, that I found on the side of a road.
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@[email protected] Dang that's gorgeous, especially with the patination from its original life.
@[email protected] I think it got a little heat treating color... Sometimes I will do that deliberately.
@[email protected] Sorry for the ignorance… I was referring to the occasional dark flaky spot; whatever it is, I love it. 👍🏼
@[email protected] No worries! The dark spots are what the whole thing looked like until I did the grinding and polish. The surface is slightly uneven from being beaten into shape with a hammer, so the low areas (dark spots) get missed during grinding... I could have ground it down until they vanished, but I don't like it when my work looks like it was made by a machine. Most of my stuff is much more "rustic" than this example!
@[email protected] I figured as much. I just love the character that they bring to the piece. Unfathomable amount of work, but several complete place setting that looked like that would not be something I'd kick out of my kitchen drawer. 😂