First attempt at a kiridashi
A kiridashi is a small Japanese knife with a chisel grind and sharp point and it used as a utility knife, scoring or carving.
I had some really rusty angle iron kicking around still, so I thought I’d get in a little practice. Unfortunately I still have no forge, so couldn’t try to smith the shape so I went with stock removal – it was good practice on using the angle grinder and hand sanding the
Now, this probably isn’t great metal for making a knife – it’s certainly quite thing and probably doesn’t have enough carbon to hold an edge (and I’m not very adept yet at the ol’ spark test to really be able to tell), but I’m pretty happy with the result (even if it didn’t hold it’s edge for too long!)