Ok, this is a letter opener! And so far we haven't put the blade in. So, let's now hammer in the blade and bevel it.

Part 1 of this tutorial is here

We have a point and taper on the end and that means if we flatten it out it will shape nicely into a blade. So we lay it flat on the anvil and hammer it.

It is looking good. Use the hammer to shape it out how you like. And I tapered mine. The blade is a bit thicker near the handle than it is at the tip.

Continue to shape it in whichever ways it needs to establish the form you want.

Once you have it the way you want we can add bevels to it.

We add the bevel to the edges of the blade the same way we put a point on the bar. We put it on the edge of the anvil.

Do both edges on this side of the blade and flip it over and do both edges on the other side.

Let's continue and finish it by forming the handle into a curve

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