{"id":1396,"date":"2015-07-05T16:11:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T15:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2015-07-05T16:11:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T15:11:43","slug":"p-160-metalworking-forge-update-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/p-160-metalworking-forge-update-6\/","title":{"rendered":"P-160: Metalworking Forge Update 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Included are some pictures of my third forging session with my Damascus steel knife.<\/p>\n<p>It is finally starting to look like a knife. The tip of the blade is mostly done, and I have started narrowing the length of the blade in preparation for filing.<\/p>\n<p>I have to narrow the blade further, add the indentations for the hilt, and round the rear of the hilt. Then I will need to temper, polish, and etch it, before creating the hilt itself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0446.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1395\" src=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0446-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0446\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0446-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0446-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0446.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0444.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1394\" src=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0444-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0444\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0444-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0444-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0444.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0431.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1393\" src=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0431-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0431\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0431-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0431-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0431.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0427.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1392\" src=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0427-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0427\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0427-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0427-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0427.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0426.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1391\" src=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0426-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0426\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0426-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0426-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0426.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Included are some pictures of my third forging session with my Damascus steel knife. It is finally starting to look like a knife. The tip of the blade is mostly done, and I have started narrowing the length of the blade in preparation for filing. I have to narrow the blade further, add the indentations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inventions","category-miscellany","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}