/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1524289
What a lot of people don't realise is that the closer you go to high level pattern welded steel (I'm talking the highest level here) the closer it gets to stock removal as less forging is done.

For example, this knife by master-smith Bob Kramer - If he had forged the blade into shape *after* setting the welds, the shape of the rhino would end up distorted. And so after setting the welds in place, he would've basically been forced to stock remove the rest. This doesn't apply to random pattern, obviously...