Making a Copper Gyuto chef knife

The knife making of a gyuto chef from start to finish. The steel is forged from 52100 carbon steel with copper layers. Copper has a low melting point compared to 52100 so the overall temperature was kept low while forging. The welds are kept on for as long as possible during forging to prevent the copper from squeezing out even though they split they did the job needed. The liquid is diesel for the hot steel Coffee is used to blacken the pattern Thank you for watching! Knives are available through my webstore here Updates of work here
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