Straightening Ni Mai blades

[@owlwoodworks]

Brilliant video Milan. Thank you for sharing a bit of your thoughts and knowledge

[@milangraviercoutelier]

Thanks Luke. Those days I would like to talk a little bit more about the process. The idea is to show people how I do things, but even more to bring a reflexion on our work and keep on sharing our knowledge so in the end we will all make better objects, or at least the object we want to make.

[@glenmatthewwilson]

Thanks for sharing! Straightening blades is a very tricky thing. Have you tried a copper hammer, or is that still too hard to hit the hard steel with? I would be very happy to learn and see more of your straightening process.

[@milangraviercoutelier]

I never tried a copper hammer. Just because I never met one and never met a enough big piece of copper to make a hammer from it. But the video is really about that : is copper hammer still too hard to hit the hard steel ? Find or make a copper hammer. Make a ni mai blade. Test it.

[@glenmatthewwilson]

@@milangraviercoutelier I will try it out! Here's a clip of another blacksmith with what appears to be a copper hammer, but on much smaller, thinner knives, that may be tempered to a higher temperature. ruclips.net/video/29-4-Gv_P3I/видео.html

[@milangraviercoutelier]

@@glenmatthewwilson nice video. He is straightening right at the end of the process. Knife is already grinded. So I guess it just some minor adjustments. Copper will be a smaller hammer than the wooden one. Do more precise. Still it won't mark the hard steel