{"id":2636,"date":"2021-08-06T21:59:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T21:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2021-08-07T00:25:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T00:25:45","slug":"completion-of-the-wrought-iron-san-mai-knife-ive-been-working-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/06\/completion-of-the-wrought-iron-san-mai-knife-ive-been-working-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Completion of the wrought iron San Mai knife I&#8217;ve been working on."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By far the knife I&#8217;m most proud of to date. Wrought iron and 1084 San Mai, made the wrought iron myself from iron ore that I then smelted in a bloomery furnace. An ungodly number of hours poured into this knife but it was all worth it. Slotted antler handle, copper pins, ball starter, and pewter bolster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20200527_154911-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2637\" data-link=\"https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/?attachment_id=2637\" class=\"wp-image-2637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20200527_154911-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20200527_154911-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20200527_154911-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20200527_154911-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20200527_154911-1152x2048.jpg 1152w, 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srcset=\"https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210628_204536-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210628_204536-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210628_204536-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210628_204536-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210628_204536-1152x2048.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210628_204536-scaled.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By far the knife I&#8217;m most proud of to date. Wrought iron and 1084 San Mai, made the wrought iron myself from iron ore that I then smelted in a bloomery furnace. An ungodly number of hours poured into this knife but it was all worth it. Slotted antler handle, copper pins, ball starter, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/06\/completion-of-the-wrought-iron-san-mai-knife-ive-been-working-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Completion of the wrought iron San Mai knife I&#8217;ve been working on.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2650,"href":"https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions\/2650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverbornknives.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}