John Sanderson Carving Knife Shear Steel Nickel Hardware & Stag 1879 1920s Mill If tradition has a taste Tea Tool If tradition has a taste the convex grind and irregular etched damascus cladding make for excellent food release Forks were forged in a small mold and ground by hand and knife blade forged by hand to shape and then hand ground on a saddle grinder to finish the geometry being finished on smaller buffing wheels large numbers of these were heated for days on end at high temperatures and the resulting bars were broken up (it would break or shear rather than bend once carbon added hence 'shear' steel) and forged welded into a larger mass