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SteelJunkee

SteelJunkee

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With an overall of almost 6" and .0781 thick stock, 2.5 inch long "Super High Vanadium Carbide" Blade, And a "Kinda curly" Black Ash wood handle...

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After a couples hours fitting and sanding. Hot waxed the handle and... Ready to complete grinding and sharpen :)

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And maybe polish a little more :D... There`s already eyes on it. :eek:...:cool:
 
How did you attach the handles? Cut the wood piece in half, sandwitch the tang with it and glue together?

We need more pictures of the process!!!!!! :D
 
^^ I just quoted what was written on the saw blade ;) ^^

Mikel_24 said:
How did you attach the handles? Cut the wood piece in half, sandwitch the tang with it and glue together?

We need more pictures of the process!!!!!! :D
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The handle is one solid piece of wood and the blade is wedged in the handle with G/Flex epoxy.

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Thanks for the kind words...

I'm pretty satisfied. The result is a surprisingly "Tough little bugger".

For whatever was meaning "Super High Vanadium Carbide". The steel takes a great edge and the absence of burr indicates a relatively good hardness and it`s tough, it has an incredible ductility for what I saw, I almost folded the blade to 90° using a vise and there was no deformation after I released it, now that was a good surprise most of the time they bend at some point, but I could feel this one was going to snap if I have pushed it.

And it feels solid while using lots of force on it. I have enough leftover of that blade to make him a big brother :)
 
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