Best use of Scrap

Nah, not that guy another one from swamp land down south.

I like my corporate job and coffee too but I'm an athlete and alcohol isn't conducive of that.
 
LARRYZ10 said:
John, I like your idea the best! Larry
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I think I'll add the brats back in then it will be a nearly perfect idea ;0)

Have to wait until July though, If the neighbors catch me out on the deck in my Bermuda shorts and my Budweiser toga grillin brats this time of year they will likely call the men with the little white jackets
 
im not saying this is a great idea but if you use several types of carbon steel you could make "fossil Damascus" in a canister. if you wanted to.
 
Get three pieces of some thicker chunks of scrap (say 1/4" thick by 3" long and 1" wide) and stack in up into a san mai billet, then forge it down and draw is out and you could easily have enough material for a san mai necker etc... or do the "scrapmascus" thing, except without the tube and powder (canister).. Just forge weld a bunch of seperate stacks of 4 or 5 (or more etc.) layers, forge those down, then take all of those and stack them up and forge them out and you can easily end up with enough material for a smaller knife.. Plus it will be easier to do with just a hand hammer.. Just my two cents :thumbup: :cool:

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Arrow heads! :D
 
Cajun Kamikaze said:
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?
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The best way to avoid voids is the use the pour the metal powder as you are layering in the scrap. Also tamp it often and they for a while at the end to make it settle as much as possible.

The second important thing is to have the material sealed from oxygen, typically by welding it shut. If oxygen is not present, when you are at forge welding temps, the voids will close and weld shut when you forge the billet down to size.
 
Most of it? Throw it in the trash...

I keep pieces that are big enough to make things like punches, leather stamps, pattern cutting knives, etc.

Doing stuff like welding it up with powder is just as much work as doing a billet with fresh material, but results in a Heinz 57 billet.

Although my buddy Keith Fludder over in Australia, recently made a billet with bandsaw swarf that came out looking like wootz, pretty neat stuff.
 
NickWheeler said:
Most of it? Throw it in the trash...

I keep pieces that are big enough to make things like punches, leather stamps, pattern cutting knives, etc.

Doing stuff like welding it up with powder is just as much work as doing a billet with fresh material, but results in a Heinz 57 billet.

Although my buddy Keith Fludder over in Australia, recently made a billet with bandsaw swarf that came out looking like wootz, pretty neat stuff.
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Nick, can I see the tools you make for leather?
 
Well it appears I have plenty of experimentation and playing ahead of me. Def some great advice here. Very nice kiridashi and I would also like to see some of Nicks tools he makes from scrap. I really like seeing all the one off custom tools he has in his shop, gets my gears turning.
 
We make beautiful paper weights with them. We grind the shape oval and put a drill hole in it for a pin. Then we glue on some burl that was leftover after re-sawing scales. Finish it out and it really does make a pretty little object d'art.
 
Fiddleback said:
We make beautiful paper weights with them. We grind the shape oval and put a drill hole in it for a pin. Then we glue on some burl that was leftover after re-sawing scales. Finish it out and it really does make a pretty little object d'art.
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Cool idea Andy. I was gonna make some leather bean bags to hold down rolled hides, but I like the sound of your idea. Probably best to throw a clear coat on the steel, but that's no biggie.
 
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