can INFI forge by hand or machine ?

is the steel available to buy anywhere other than finished Busse knives? It'd be fun to try and forge a blade from it. Its really high in Vanadium so its gonna be red hard, and probably difficult to forge at home but I do know a guy with some power hammers...
 
Lycosa ,dud.
haha, i can do a little forging work .i am not professional , just amuture.
as i know , forged blade more tougher than iron slab ones .
so i am curious about that can INFI forge?
if Busse can do that as "custom" , i wanta get one .
 
hathegkla said:
is the steel available to buy anywhere other than finished Busse knives? ..
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No.

dingy said:
as i know , forged blade more tougher than iron slab ones .
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That is not necessarily true. There is nothing magical about forging. Considering steels that can be both forged or finished by simply grinding/stock removal, a properly heat treated knife by either technique will perform essentially equal.

palegreenhorse said:
Maybe ask Garth at the custom shop for an Infi blank.
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Not gonna happen.
 
"That is not necessarily true. There is nothing magical about forging. Considering steels that can be both forged or finished by simply grinding/stock removal, a properly heat treated knife by either technique will perform essentially equal."
uh``` when talk about making knife ,you are right but the long blade(sword) is not the same thing.

forging process can ``` avoid breaking , i think .
man , as i said , i am not profession on this area.:D
 
I may not understand things as well as I think I do, but while INFI is a pretty good base steel, isn't the real "magic" in the cryogenic heat treatment? If one was to forge INFI steel, they'd still need to heat treat it (a process that varies significantly from one steel to the next). Heat treat your blade wrong and it'll be far inferior to a correctly treated O1 blade, which many knifemakers use because it's fairly easy to treat.
 
jnphares said:
I may not understand things as well as I think I do, but while INFI is a pretty good base steel, isn't the real "magic" in the cryogenic heat treatment? If one was to forge INFI steel, they'd still need to heat treat it (a process that varies significantly from one steel to the next). Heat treat your blade wrong and it'll be far inferior to a correctly treated O1 blade, which many knifemakers use because it's fairly easy to treat.
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I would agree.
 
jnphares said:
I may not understand things as well as I think I do, but while INFI is a pretty good base steel, isn't the real "magic" in the cryogenic heat treatment? If one was to forge INFI steel, they'd still need to heat treat it (a process that varies significantly from one steel to the next). Heat treat your blade wrong and it'll be far inferior to a correctly treated O1 blade, which many knifemakers use because it's fairly easy to treat.
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yeah, you'd probably have to play around with it to get it right, you'd definitely need a heat treating furnace and access to liquid nitrogen, I'm sure that you could find heat treatment info for similar kinds of steel and use that as a starting point. doesn't really matter though since they aren't selling the stuff.
 
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