Post 1: As usual, a New Project comes out of the Blue!

    Well, I suppose I am doomed to get interested in new things all the time... I was just shopping for a new pocket knife (I have a thing for knives), and had actually found the perfect Corsican one in France , very stylish, reasonably priced, and with a bottle opener, just the kind I like to have with me when we travel, except they somehow would not ship it to the US:

  So I did a Google search to find it somewhere else, and couln't. But in the process, I ran across some  other pocket knives made of Damascus steel... Some where outrageously expensive, but some were reasonable, particularly at a place called Smoky Mountain Knife Works. They had a selection of good looking Damascus blade knives at very affordable prices, and also sold an extra long  32.5"x1.75"x1/8" Raindrop Pattern Billet Blank made in Pakistan. Unfortunately, a lot of the models I like most are not in stock

    But I still did ordered two beautiful unusual small knives made in Pakistan:

   Another place called, what else, The Ultimate Knife Store also had a whole selection of already made Damascus Steel blades, as well as several choices of Billet bars about 10"x2"x4mm. It occured to me at first that some of the blade blanks were absolutely beautiful, and would make great looking table knives just as they came. I would not want to cover up the Damascus patterns with a handle:

   So I started toying with the idea of making forks and spoons to match out of the different kinds of billet available in ladder, raindrop, swirl and twist patterns:

   But of course, the next thought was: I have to design my own knives too...