Hi everyone! Been a long while since I've visited the Forum as I've not been doing any jewellery work recently. Been making some motorcycles look very lovely but that's not entirely relevant here...!

I've been looking around at what everyone as been up to and think I can safely say the standard hasn't dropped at all during my absence; some mighty impressive stuff on here!

Nearest I've got to actual jewellery of late is the little project shown below. It's a martial arts knife called a tanto. The blade is made in aluminium and is deliberately not fully sharpened as it is only intended as a training aid rather than a lethal weapon. I made the blade, handle and sheath and then hand engraved the blade with the kanji characters for "shuhari", a martial arts concept describing the stages of learning up to full mastery. Apologies for this being a bit left-field for this forum but it's the best I can offer at the moment. Few more jewellery jobs on the horizon though so will keep you all posted.

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S.M.