For twenty-one long and tiring (but oh so exciting) hours over the weekend at
Tharwa Valley Forge, I heated and hammered steel ...
into the vague shape of a blade....
heated some more...
ground and sanded those blades on noisy, fast-moving, spark-producing machines...
sorted through blocks of wood that would eventually become handles...
drilled (more loud, fast-moving machinery) and assembled wood with blade ...
glued and clamped....
sanded and sanded and sanded....with more loud and dangerous machinery as well as laboriously by hand....
dipped in oil, polished and finally produced two hand-crafted by me, beautiful and practical kitchen knives.
Definitely not knitting.
