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2 NeutralAbout Dave Edgerton
- Birthday 12/01/1963
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Weyburn Saskatchewan
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Eric how did you make the eye? was it punched or folded and then forge welded. Beautiful work.
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He said it snapped the standard boron bit so had to switch to a carbide one. Wonder if it could be made into rings?
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No problem guys! This is why we post so that we learn from experiments and failures as well as success. The blade shown was quenched and HT.
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Not really damascus but son needed a solid 1" bar for a project he is doing in shop class. We forge welded 1.25" cable into 4 Billets and then forge welded them into a larger block billet 1.25 x6". H then turned the finished piece on the lathe. Each initial billet was only about 5/8" square which is why we had to stack 4 together.
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Just a small santoku style knife about 4" blade length. Will post again when handled. The cultivator sweeps are 1080 or 1085 pretty much a guarantee. The sickle knives probably have a bit of chrome and manganese as they have to be high wear and they stay sharp after the million cuts they make in a combine mowerbar.
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Better with the pic
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Made a small damascus blade using sickle sections from a combine and some steel from cultivator sweeps. Tons of this stuff on the prairies and all free. Both really good grades of 1080 steel.
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To Sam: it was a dumb mistake To al Massey: will take a pic and upload
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As for a bend that has to be corrected after quenching should I anneal the blade and correct? Sorry this topic should not be in show and tell forum
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So I have discovered that cultivator sweeps are fantastic steel for blades. Very tough and they can be tempered and sharpened to a razor edge. The older ones pre 1970 seem to be better as well. Which leads me to my question of order of operations. Forged a blade then ground it out a bit for shape while annealed but I did not thin the cutting edge a lot. Next I brought it up to a nice light red and quenched in oil. It is at this point I don't know if I should temper the blade before final grind or if I should have ground it closer to final thickness in annealed state. The blade has a slight ben
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I reply don't know what people were doing with an anvil to make so much damage on it. Almost plain abuse.
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ok here are some pics
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So I am watching this youtube video and noticed the smith is forge welding a hard white steel piece to a softer carbon steel. However I do not see him putting anothe layer of softer steel to surround the core. Am I not understanding something as I thought these knives were tri-lam.
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How did you prep the billet for forge welding? I know it's hard to get the stainless to bond with anything. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
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Can you tell us your welding procedure for the billet? I am having trouble getting ours to stick.