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About My Double Forging

Very few blades are forged at all these days. With modern steels readily available in flat sheets, they are quickly cut to the shape of the desired blade. High powered electric grinders finish by shaping the bevels.
Although I have always forged all my blades from round bars of high carbon steel, they have required some stock removal (grinding) to shape the bevels. The past couple years I've been thinking about shaping the bevels all the way with just forging, with no stock removal except for the tiny microbevels. After quite a few attempts I've come up with a process that works. It involves forging each blade a second time, down to a fine, wire edge. The "double forging" is not really important. It's the fact that the final forging was done so precisely that no major stock removal was needed. This keeps the full benefits of the forging. I am enjoying the thought that I've possibly taken a big step backwards to the time when precise forging of blades was needed because a lot of shaping by grinding was not an option.
My final forging requires such precise work that I need to wear a magnifying visor, as shown in the pictures below.

picture showing precise forging of
fine edge of carving knife

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