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Salt Spring Island Blacksmith forges one-of-a-kind Damascus steel kitchen knives

Layering metals, heating and hammering create wavy patterns in steel

A maze of flowing waves creating distinctive fingerprints, Seth Cosmo Burton spends his days forging Damasus steel and turning it into beautiful, one-of-a-kind kitchen knives.

For people like Burton, creativity runs in his blood. His mother was a painter and sculptor, and his father was an architect. Burton, born in England and raised in Canada, followed his mother to Salt Spring Island around the age of 10.

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Kim Kimberlin, Local Journalism Initiative

About the Author: Kim Kimberlin, Local Journalism Initiative

My journey into writing began as a child filling journals with my observations and eventually, using my camera.
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