Anyone know...

[Colin KC]

...what steel, old steels are made from?

I guess they're good, cos they're pretty hard, but does anyone know specifics? Any pounders had a go yet? My mum has a secondhand shop (useful for all sorts of things, not least, as many steels as I can reasonably expect to use in about fifty lifetimes) sooooo supply's no problemo, jus' wondered?

[jbaron]

i could tell you for cash! smokin a pancake!

[Colin KC]

i could tell you for cash! smokin a pancake!

izzat one of your poems Baron? I told you about them, they don't even rhyme, what kind of poems that then

Nah Jon, I'll just give one the annealing treatment & then try some HT, I might even give one a bit of a bashing

[jbaron]

bashing i like the sound of that!!!!!!

i've got a date with a knife

[jbaron]

by the way colin acid etch afterward!!!! as it could be shear steel

[Colin KC]

by the way colin acid etch afterward!!!! as it could be shear steel

Hmmm, good skills that Poet Lauriet to be :p

[jbaron]

"gasoline rainbow in the gutter "

his best poem is "impostable to tell"

[jbaron]

spe;;inf is crap after 7 fosters

[Colin KC]

Impostable to spell, more like it

[PS_Bond]

Gasoline rainbows? Sounds like the Mission...

No idea what your steel is Colin - get it to critical, quench it in water and hit it hard with a hammer.

[keith_beef]

I imagine you mean a butcher's steel, and not a sparking steel...

I've had a look at mine, they're just marked "cast steel" or "warranted cast steel", which probably (judging from the age) means water hardening crucible steel...

The analysis is probably very similar to the shear steel that Jon mentioned.

I'll see of I can find out more for you.


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[Colin KC]

I imagine you mean a butcher's steel, and not a sparking steel...

I've had a look at mine, they're just marked "cast steel" or "warranted cast steel", which probably (judging from the age) means water hardening crucible steel...

The analysis is probably very similar to the shear steel that Jon mentioned.

I'll see of I can find out more for you.


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Thanks Keith et al,

It's not just one, & not all the same either (some are hex/octagonal, some are milled, some are smooth, prolly some are made from different steels, might just have to play it by ear)

[jbaron]

so get pounding

[Colin KC]

so get pounding

Yeah Jon, just like that , not even up to dateon mystockremoval knives, let alone getting a beastie forge setup (although it's acomin')

[jbaron]

a hammer and a file? one brick forge come on!!! else i'll recite a poem