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No, No, No.......... That's not right...........
Here is one that I forged from a piece of "Spring Toothed Cultivator". Since I was not sure what the steel was, I decided to really test it prior to spending the time of putting a handle and guard on it. I had the edge ground to around 1/32" and managed to take a wooden maul and hammer the blade about 3/4 way through a 3/16 brazing rod. I did this several times and only had to clean the bronze residue off the blade. This sucker is as tuff as can be.
Normalized 3 times........... Edge quenched at 1465 four times.......... Tempered at 400 three times.............
Steel..... Forged from ?????? Your guess is as good as mine.
Stainless guard and Nickel/Silver buttcap
Stag Handle (not the best piece I ever used)
OAL 11"
Blade Tip to Guard 6 1/2"
Thanks for looking............ Robert
Here is one that I forged from a piece of "Spring Toothed Cultivator". Since I was not sure what the steel was, I decided to really test it prior to spending the time of putting a handle and guard on it. I had the edge ground to around 1/32" and managed to take a wooden maul and hammer the blade about 3/4 way through a 3/16 brazing rod. I did this several times and only had to clean the bronze residue off the blade. This sucker is as tuff as can be.
Normalized 3 times........... Edge quenched at 1465 four times.......... Tempered at 400 three times.............
Steel..... Forged from ?????? Your guess is as good as mine.
Stainless guard and Nickel/Silver buttcap
Stag Handle (not the best piece I ever used)
OAL 11"
Blade Tip to Guard 6 1/2"
Thanks for looking............ Robert
