From: "Gene Smith" <SmithFrow@worldnet.att.net>
To: <baidarka@lists.intelenet.net>
Subject: Re: baidarka crooked knives
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 19:31:18 -0000
Wynne wrote from Americus, GA USA:
"This was an old, rusty file I found in my yard, and I left some of the pits
in the blade, partly out of laziness, partly out of the "style" it lent to
the blade."
One of the handsomest blades I have ever seen was made from an old rasp.
The bladesmith had ground it so that it was smooth to the touch - but
retained a "fishscale" like pattern in the metal from the stresses
introduced by its original making as a rasp.
Gene Smith
who wishes he knew how to do every wonderful thing he has seen