{"id":1519,"date":"2015-09-10T01:20:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T00:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2015-09-10T01:20:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T00:20:40","slug":"p-160-metalworking-forge-update-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/p-160-metalworking-forge-update-7\/","title":{"rendered":"P-160: Metalworking Forge Update 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have completed another forging session.<\/p>\n<p>I have mostly finished smoothing and narrowing the blade, which was the last big task.<\/p>\n<p>I now need to straighten the blade (it is quite warped after the work I did to narrow its edge) and straighten the spine of the knife.<\/p>\n<p>I also need to finish the finger choil and round out the handle.<\/p>\n<p>Then I just need to drill some holes for the handle, temper the blade, polish it, and acid etch it to bring out the Damascus pattern again.<\/p>\n<p><a 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1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSCF3339.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1513\" src=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSCF3339-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF3339\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSCF3339-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSCF3339.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSCF3342.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1512\" src=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSCF3342-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF3342\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" 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I have mostly finished smoothing and narrowing the blade, which was the last big task. I now need to straighten the blade (it is quite warped after the work I did to narrow its edge) and straighten the spine of the knife. I also need to finish the finger [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inventions","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\/1519"}],"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=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1520,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}