[TheForge] Japanese Sen experimentation

[magichammer]

The Japanese Demonstrators at the ABANA La Cross Conference did 
something like this.
it was like using a draw knife on the swords that they were making.
dave m

Mark A. Pesetsky wrote:

>
>Probably there is no difference. I had never seen a
>scraper used on iron (at least not in the context of
>black or blade smithing and the information I got
>about it in information about japanese sword making it
>was called a sen. 
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>http://www.dfoggknives.com/photogallery/MakingSen/makingsen.htm
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>Mark
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