bansawblades and fillet knives questions

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Sammy Mickel

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What a weekend! Finally got a deer on the last day of the season got home and found out a buddy left me a bandsaw blade. After talking with him he thought I could practice making fillet knives and maybe get him one out of it. Do you have to anneal it before working out a pattern? How do you heat treat it, it's barelly a 1/16"? All I have for heat treating is a torch and my kitchen oven. If anyone has any pics of thier fillet knives I would love to see them. Happy New Year!

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The heat treat will depend on the type of bandsaw blade you have.
I have made allot of inexpensive kitchen and fillet knives out of heavey metal cutting band saw blades,the kind that is used in big machine shops.They do not need any heattreating if they are kept cool while grinding so you don't ruin the heat treat that is already in the steel.They will hold a really good edge for a long time also.If it is one of those real big wood cutting bandsaw blades it should be L-6 and if so quench as normal high carbon and draw back at 350 in the oven for 2 hours,Twice....
Hope this helps,
Bruce

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Bruce Evans Handcrafted Knives
The soul of the Knife begins in the Fire!!!!!
Member of,AKTI#A000223 and The American Bladesmith Society
 
Thannks for the info Bruce. Your knives look great. The bandsaw blade my buddy gave me is out of a very large metal cutting bandsaw. I'd say it's probably 5-6' in diameter and about 2 1/2" wide. Would you flat grind it? And if so could I use a file to do the work? Thanks for the help.

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The file might take longer but it should work,Just keep the file clean as you go since the metal is already heat treated a piece stuck in the file teeth can leave a ugly scratch....The flat grind works great...This sounds like some of the same stuff that I have used.You can put it in a vice and bend it over and smack it with a hammer and break it if you want but this will loose some of the metal as you will have to grind the bend at the end off,It won't be much and probably not as much as if you used a torch to cut it.Good luck,
Bruce

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Bruce Evans Handcrafted Knives
The soul of the Knife begins in the Fire!!!!!
Member of,AKTI#A000223 and The American Bladesmith Society
 
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