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This knife is very different from any of the others. It evolved step-by-step with no plan at all. It glories in its flaws. All the metal in the knife is from a single piece of 1" steel cable, heated and fluxed and twisted and pounded with a hammer on a railroad track anvil, ground and shaped and polished and etched in acid. The guard and pommel are end pieces of the cable that did not quite weld, and I heated them yellow-hot and dipped them in molten brass, shaped and polished and heat-blued them to bring out the contrast with the bright brass. I sent pictures of them to a well-known maker of cable Damascus knives, and he told me how to keep from getting holes in the steel when I dipped it in brass. But this is exactly what I wanted.
