Nice service
The memorial service for my friend was today and was really nice. About 50 people showed up -- people from the Chamber and the local community (which is how I knew Linda) as well as people she worked with prior to her moving here.
Her passing was one month ago today -- it still seems surreal that she is gone.
Dealing with some other stuff so another few days of light posting. Latter part of the week will be this
auction (maybe) and this
swap-meet (definitely) and then things should be back to whatever passes for normalcy around here. When I am in Seattle for the swap-meet, I will be picking up a couple hundred pounds of Hematite ore to try making my own steel. The method was perfected in Japan and is known there as
Tamahagane (tama = jewel / hagane = steel). A number of folks are bringing the 72 hour Japanese process into the 21st Century and doing it in five hours and getting incredible results. About 1% to 1.5% carbon -- perfect for an edge. I am not planning to do the Japanese knifes or swords, more into culinary knives and personal fixed blades but I have seen the results of this process (as well as witnessing the process two times (and a third this August)) and the results are drop-dead gorgeous.
Posted by DaveH at July 17, 2011 10:10 PM