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Richard338 said:
That was Instagram. Caption said the last of them are going out for heat treatment. I'm not in a hurry myself, I'm still soaking in the K20.
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Sweeeeeeet.

I'm still stewing over missing the K20. But feeling a glimmer of hope now.

BTW, YOU caused me to have a dream... about hand carving my own saya out of hardwood for a K20 I don't even yet have. I told Chad Pirtle, and he said I had it baaaaaad. lol.
 
SpyderPhreak said:
Sweeeeeeet.

I'm still stewing over missing the K20. But feeling a glimmer of hope now.

BTW, YOU caused me to have a dream... about hand carving my own saya out of hardwood for a K20 I don't even yet have. I told Chad Pirtle, and he said I had it baaaaaad. lol.
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You can do it. It's fun as long as you don't do anything stupid like make 6 at once. I'd say that you pretty much need a K20 in hand though. When I look at the first saya I did a few years ago I cringe a little. That's why I posted several steps in the process in case anyone wants to try it. It helped me a lot to make a little gauge for the oval cross section shape. Wood is quick to shape and if you bugger it up you can just start again.
 
Richard338 said:
You can do it. It's fun as long as you don't do anything stupid like make 6 at once. I'd say that you pretty much need a K20 in hand though. When I look at the first saya I did a few years ago I cringe a little. That's why I posted several steps in the process in case anyone wants to try it. It helped me a lot to make a little gauge for the oval cross section shape. Wood is quick to shape and if you bugger it up you can just start again.
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I probably can do it. After about 8 tries and a lot of expensive, wasted, long pieces of wood. 🤣 I wouldn't even actually try w/o the sword in-hand. The dream cracked me up, tells me how bad I really felt about missing the first pre-order. 😕
 
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