That first set of photos I posted has a knife by Tapio. But as noted in post, it seems he no longer forges blades, and instead only does stock removal, and is moving on to all manner of other style knives.

I was disappointed to see this move from forging (or grinding without jigs), personally, but it is his life and business....his logic is that his tests show no difference in performance, but the only tests I am aware of is a bit of moose antler carving. He bought a new grinder back this past fall and just started having fun with it. He is doing amazing work for only 3yrs of knife making (already tapered tang Loveless hunter and fighter copies!) and maybe not yet even 30yrs old.

Here is a video of one of his moose antler carving tests which shows some pretty impressive edge retention, no doubt. You need to have the sound turned up for the full effect of just how abusive this is to a fine knife edge....any of the good forged Silversteel knives would pass this test, and this is such a knife.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REqMYleo9Jc


Edited by Lofty (07/23/16 09:11 AM)
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