Thank you for sharing your video! I am a "suburban home dad" (in Eagle River, AK), and it is a great experience to see your success as I am learning about working with steel and making blades -- or for now, blade shaped objects. Congratulations and best wishes.
It is different. The knives forged by the candidates and tested are different. Master Smith candidates use a forged blade with a minimum of 300 layers of pattern welded Damascus steel. Journeyman Smith candidates use a blade made of carbon steel.
+ABSwebmaster Can one use a power hammer?? I'm kidding. I'm a hobbyist knife maker just moving on from scrap metal and rail road spikes on my rail road track anvil to getting a 150 anvil!!! Maybe, just perhaps, one day I'll be taking your test :) Probably years down the road.
Mr. Stkrdknmibalz it doesn't seam that hard to me if you have a known steel now if you had to take ore and forge into a blade now that would be a test But I've been forging known metals for 20 years
Yes Haley... Congratulations! ... on ruining a perfectly good knife ;>)) now it looks like it will be perfect for watermelon skinning. Keep up the good work. Nice Job
Thank you for sharing your video! I am a "suburban home dad" (in Eagle River, AK), and it is a great experience to see your success as I am learning about working with steel and making blades -- or for now, blade shaped objects.
Congratulations and best wishes.
That awesome - Congratulations! Of course, anyone who has seen your beautiful knives would have had no doubts about your skills!
Great job Haley! The bend test must have been a little nerve-racking but the excitement at the end makes up for it.
Looks like a 2 x 6 from my phone. Good job! I hope to take the test one day. I wonder if a knife has ever sprung back from the 90° bend?
Good job kid. You had a great instructor.
great Job! One question, why is the ms performance test identical to the js performance test?
It is different. The knives forged by the candidates and tested are different. Master Smith candidates use a forged blade with a minimum of 300 layers of pattern welded Damascus steel. Journeyman Smith candidates use a blade made of carbon steel.
Thanks for the info.
I thought there was another rope test after the 2x4 and before the bend?
great job!
Awesome!
Dear god that 90 degree bend hurt my soul
How does this differ froim the journeyman test?
The MS test must be done with a Damascus blade of no less than 300 layers
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Just curious, but what qualifies as damascus for the ABS?
No less than 300 forge welded layers of two, or more, alloys is what is required for this test.
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Can one use a power hammer?? I'm kidding. I'm a hobbyist knife maker just moving on from scrap metal and rail road spikes on my rail road track anvil to getting a 150 anvil!!! Maybe, just perhaps, one day I'll be taking your test :) Probably years down the road.
Mr. Stkrdknmibalz it doesn't seam that hard to me if you have a known steel now if you had to take ore and forge into a blade now that would be a test
But I've been forging known metals for 20 years
Yes Haley... Congratulations!
... on ruining a perfectly good knife ;>))
now it looks like it will be perfect for watermelon skinning.
Keep up the good work.
Nice Job
Seems strange that her husband would be inspecting it?
Like Hell I would fail my wife
Jeff Hardy she passed though!