To clarify just in case, the symbols aren't religious.
They represent the cattle brand of the ranch owned by the client who commissioned the original blade.
Following up on the previous posts with the final assembly of the handle.
Video shows the machining process, fitting the guard and ebony scales, threading the tang, and the final scrollwork engraved by Luis D. Sigaudo.
This is a shortened cut from a video I uploaded to my YouTube channel a few days ago.
I removed a lot of the more story-driven parts for Reddit, but kept the sections that I thought might be useful or interesting to other bladesmiths — especially the Thor simulations and some of the decisions behind the pattern construction.
So if parts of the edit feel a little more cinematic than a typical Reddit post, that’s why.
This is some old footage from one of the more unusual Damascus billets I made years ago.
I’ve been going through a lot of old shop footage lately, and this one still feels pretty special to me.
Context: the cross-shaped symbol has nothing to do with religion. It's the client's cattle brand, and La Capilla is also the name of his ranch herre in Argentina.
This is some old footage from one of the more unusual Damascus billets I made years ago.
I’ve been going through a lot of old shop footage lately, and this one still feels pretty special to me.
Edit for context: the cross-shaped symbol has nothing to do with religion. It's the client's cattle brand, and La Capilla is also the name of his ranch herre in Argentina.
More than a decade ago, I spent quite a few years making knives and pattern-welded steel, then ended up away from the shop for a long stretch.
Now that I’m getting back into it, I’ve been digging through a lot of old footage and thought some of the forging processes might be worth sharing here.
This one shows part of the process for a Jelly Roll Damascus billet.
Some of you may even remember my old WIP threads from the BladeForums days.
I used to make knives and Damascus pretty intensively some years ago, then stepped away from the shop for quite a while.
Maybe some of you remember me from back when BladeForums was the place for WIPs and build threads.
I’m getting back into it now, and realized I have a ridiculous amount of old process footage that might be interesting here.
This is part of the handle build on a JellyRoll Damascus hunter I made a few years ago.
Hope you enjoy it.