After a year with the knife, using it every day, I have to say that we absolutely love it. Perfect gift for my wife (uhh, and me too!) It has a lot of character to it now, but still doing the job so well. Keep up the good work. I got a little utility knife from you this year and it'll be a great addition to the knife drawer.
Thank you! Yeah I wasn’t seeing much hamon activity after grinding the scale off so I didn’t bother etching it. I’m pretty sure it was because my clay fell off during quench. It still got differentially hardened, but just didn’t have much hamon. I am working on two blades now that are much more promising! I’ll be posting those on Instagram probably.