These blades are hand forged in the fires at White Hart Forge by me, Daniel Klug. I have been making blades for over seven years now and teach blade making part-time. I use leaf springs from an early 1960’s Toyota Land Cruiser for many of these blades. We also use old logging choker cable and ships wire rope welded together and create a fanciful damascus pattern on the blade. These Springs and cable are made of high carbon steel and extremely well suited for large blades such as this. The blades will be forged and shaped by hammer and anvil in a technique known as hard packing the edge. That is, it is not shaped by material reduction like grinding. All the original steel is still there. This makes for a very dense and sturdy blade. After heat treating and tempering in a heat bath for one hour at 520 degrees the blade is let to air cool. The over all length of the knife can range from about 20 inches to 16 inches with a blade length between 9 and 12 inches. The blade thickness is about 1/8th of an inch and the spine about 3/16.
PLEASE NOTE: Because these are all hand made one at a time, there will be slight variations in the handle and the blade. The photos used here are of previous works and are intended for descriptive purposes. Your blade and sheath will be similar to these and will be built after the sale.
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