New knife

Very cool.. Did you leave the tip squared off just so it wouldn't be pointy in a bad way? What alloy do you have?

I like a drop-point knife, there's times when you need that point and I prefer it to be tougn.

For the next one, pound out some Damascus from steel banding- I think that'd make a very nice blade.

John

Was thinking of pulling the diagonal down to make a sharp tip actually. I forget what the blade was, a chisel or something. Probably 1080 or so.

Haven't had some in a while, but isn't that like 1040-1060 or so? Would at least need to be carburized then.

Tim

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I love the appearance oif that beastie!

Just like some ladies I've been pleased to know, it has that "lived in look".

And, backgrounding it with schematics which combine semiconductors with triode vacuum tubes adds penache to the overall "retro" appearance.

Jeff

You could nick the edge back for a tanto tip..

I've made scrapers from old wood chisels, nice steel in some of them.

It's pretty soft as is but I thought it had a goodly carbon content.. maybe it is just soft stuff, if so there might be little to be done with it. There's a lot of cool sources for edged tools that if one weren't ideal just try something else; some piston rings seem interesting, steel cable, spring steel, the shifting stick in out of a pickup or truck transmission, files, etc. I've got some interesting stuff, I was told it was a low carbon spring steel. It's strange to forge, it seems to get pretty soft around 900F and then harder again up to around 1500F (if I try to bend it, it'd rather bend back where it's not red).. Tough stuff, someday I'm going to make a blade from it. Tried a piece for a cutting tool in the lathe- fuel oil quench with no temper worked pretty good..

John

Pick up a few used power hacksaw blades. They make excellent knives.

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the s*it out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner

That's a good one I've not thought of.

John