I found this sickle blade on a walk last year, and it’s been laying around ever since waiting for me to get off of my butt and do something with it.

Seemed like it might be good for some kind of rough trimming, but without a handle was impossible, and pretty dangerous to work with. Finally found a good short handle and put it on:

Being a regular one handed sickle, it didn’t have any curve in it, so I got out a small anvil and ball peen hammer and gave it some curve by hammering the concave side.

After the first hammering, there wasn’t enough curve, so I hammered it some more.

 Here it is on the floor so you can see how much curve was added.

Next I cut some slabs and used the sickle blade to ‘trim’ them. It leaves a very slightly curved depression, rather than a flat cut and I’m hoping this will behave interestingly with the glazes. Also the surface of the clay get somewhat roughed up and showing some texture.

The first slab was trimmed after the first hammering of the sickle blade, the slab below was trimmed after the second hammering. It has slightly more pronounced marks.

I’ll post more pictures of these plates after they dry and I can finish the edges.