I'd already roughed out the handle for the Coppergate kitchen knife, but the blade needed hand sanding and the handle refining. I couldn't get the polishing stones in to a couple of places (to remove slivers of forge scale) and there was a bit of unevenness in part of the blade. I considered trying to grind them out, but the blade has a very specific profile, and I would have lost that.
So, I'll be selling it at the discounted price of £140, rather than £175. It's purely cosmetic, and reminds us that it is actually hand forged. Handle is Oak and, despite what everyone says about Oak and Iron, is a wood used on handles in period.
