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Gutshot
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I have a question to anyone out there that has made custom knives? from hacksaw blades. Does one have to anneal them? I have several that are both new and used. If you do , how does one attempt that process? I have neither acetylene torches or commercial oven. Can a home oven get hot enough to do it? Any help would be useful.
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| Posted: Wed Dec 17th, 2008 12:26 AM |
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About 20 years ago I made a knife out of an industrial hacksaw blade. At the time I knew nothing about annealing. I did know that if I got the blade too hot it would soften it but had no idea how to reharden it. Using a large bench grinder I cut the blade in half and ground it to shape and sharpened it. I held it with my bare hands as I ground. Anytime it became uncomfortably hot to hold onto I quenched it in cold water. I shaped the tang from the end with the hole in it. I hollowed out a deer horn and epoxied the blade in the horn drilling a hole through the horn to match the hole in the blade and putting a brass pin through both. It was the sharpest knife and held the best edge of any I owned before or since. One day when I got home from deer hunting my sheath was empty. I looked for two days but never found it. I've still got a blade or two somewhere and other than spot annealing it to accept another pin in the tang I think I'd just try it the same way again. RD
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23rd, 2008 12:53 AM |
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Every so often I look at my can of worn or broken hacksaw blades, then I clean them off, bundle them in "iron" wire and then forge them into some sort of pattern weld or a sort of damascus steel.
I took the blade I made from the hacksaw, then took two 1/4" steel rounds, heated them and then twisteded them very tight. Later I came back to laminate the twists on to the sides of the blade I made from hacksaw blades in my forge.
Lots of fun making this blade.
Jerry
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