Making a Katana Kitchen Knife | The Samurai Challenge (Viewer Submission)

Описание: In this video I make a katana inspired kitchen slicer. I forged several different types of steel into a billet of 7-layer pattern welded steel I made, attempting the Soshu Kitae method. The billet contains 80CrV2 steel on the cutting edge and spine, with a mild steel core in the center. The final billet is a go mai consisting of 228-layer damascus, 15N20, Core billet, 15N20, 228-layer damascus. Typically a medium carbon steel would be used in place of the 15N20 layer. I didn’t have any medium carbon steel, and the 15N20 layer would provide a nice transition on the bevels from the damascus outer cladding to the 80CrV2 cutting edge. Unfortunately, in order to get the blade thin enough to function as a kitchen knife I virtually ground through all of the damascus outer cladding. You can see in the test etch that there are large areas of exposed 15N20, and even some areas that go all the way to the core steel.

The handle was constructed from a block of stabilized maple burl, (2) layers of copper, a layer of black G10, and a small block of green dyed stabilized maple burl. The handle was secured with epoxy and a brass pin. I sanded the handle up to 600 grit, and polished it on the buffing wheel. I finished it with (3) costs of Odie’s Oil, allowing at least 12 hours of cure time in between coats.

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