Oklahoma knife maker with disability lives without limits
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October 22, 2017
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The roar of a propane tank and the clang of cold steel hammering hot red stock echoed down an otherwise quiet small-town street. It was the sound of Norman "Buddy" Thomas at his anvil forging another creation.
What started as a bright, high-carbon, 1084 steel bar blackened and glowed red as it "soaked" in the forge. Repeatedly the knife maker grabbed it with a thick leather glove and long steel tongs, turning to his anvil where he pounded it toward the shape he envisioned, then returned it to soak some more.
"It'll be a hunter," he said of the blade-to-be, but then paused w...
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