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Month: August 2020

My First Knife

August 11, 2020February 5, 2024 Blue Moose Leave a comment

I happened to be cleaning my shop the other day and found this ugly old thing… It’s the first knife I ever made, forged from an old lawn mower blade. I don’t think it could have been any uglier if I’d planned it that way, but at the time I was pretty excited – not […]

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