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Cajun Kamikaze

Cajun Kamikaze

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In what ways do you guys re-purpose your scrap steel?

I have a good bit of scrap steel/drops too small for making knives and just want to hear what you guys do with yours. Guess some would work for Kirdashi's and bolsters or guards but I know there is some way more interesting things, I don't know about, that can be done with this material. School me Please!
 
I'm curious too.....I have a bucket by my bandsaw, and have been tossing scrap bits of steel in there for a LONG time. Never knew if there was any reason to keep it.
 
When my scrap pile from various projects gets big enough, It magically transforms into Budweiser and brats....After I take it to the scrapyard of course ;0)
 
Cajun Kamikaze said:
In what ways do you guys re-purpose your scrap steel?

I have a good bit of scrap steel/drops too small for making knives and just want to hear what you guys do with yours. Guess some would work for Kirdashi's and bolsters or guards but I know there is some way more interesting things, I don't know about, that can be done with this material. School me Please!
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i'm a golfer so was going to make some divot tools
 
Yea, Guess what I'm looking for is a few guys with something much more interesting going on than beer and brats and paper weights :yawn:. Maybe Don will chime in?
 
I have made "scrapmascus" before with damascus scraps. Just put a bunch of scraps in pipe, fill it with powdered steel, weld it shut and forge weld into a billet.
 
JMJones said:
I have made "scrapmascus" before with damascus scraps. Just put a bunch of scraps in pipe, fill it with powdered steel, weld it shut and forge weld into a billet.
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This!

So I'm thinking 2" pipe or something like that? and probably should wait till I have access to a power hammer.... What about voids, any tips on cutting out the chances of air voids in the billet?
 
Cajun Kamikaze said:
lol, Don't get me wrong, I love Beer and Brats but I process and make my own already so no need to for me to exchange for paper to exchange for meat. ;)
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OK then..... Budweiser and a fifth of Old No.7 Tennessee Sipping Whiskey...I'm easy going for the most part ;0)
 
John Katt said:
OK then..... Budweiser and a fifth of Old No.7 Tennessee Sipping Whiskey...I'm easy going for the most part ;0)
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I see how you roll. Just so happens that CliveHamiltons brother really likes that sipping whiskey. A little to much for me though, I'm a reefer head. I don't do hangovers, puff puff pass.
 
Cajun Kamikaze said:
I see how you roll. Just so happens that CliveHamiltons brother really likes that sipping whiskey. A little to much for me though, I'm a reefer head. I don't do hangovers, puff puff pass.
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Heh... You're probably one of the few that would admit that. I would (probably should even) if I didn't have a corporate job. Nothing harder than coffee for me.

Can't help ya with steel, but I try to recycle handle material and leather. Leather goes to technique practice and stacked handles, micarta and wood get made into key chains, worry "stones", beads and anything else I can think of.
 
You could make a smelting oven, melt your scrap down and reforge it into bars! Or you could sell it to the scrap guy for beer money...
 
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