The "Strander Knives" I mentioned in a previous thread are used in the oriented strand board industry. A strander has 144 knives placed on a huge disk powered by a 1000 horsepower motor. The strander cuts logs in to 1"x6"x0.025" strands to press into strand board. These knive are roughly 18" long, 3" wide, and 3/16" thick. As I said previously I have access to thousands of used ones and I'm sure they could make stinking big blades. I.K.S. is stamped on them, I should talk to the "engineers" at work, they could have some info for me. Point of reference stranders, are also known as "flakers".
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Has no one heard of Strander Knives?
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That sounds interesting. I'd guess any steel suitable for that purpose would make a good knife, but we need some idea what kind of steel it is or we won't know how to heat-treat it.
3/16" is pretty thin for a knife 3" wide, but even so ... it sounds interesting, especially if the used blades are available cheap.
-Cougar Allen :{)
3/16" is pretty thin for a knife 3" wide, but even so ... it sounds interesting, especially if the used blades are available cheap.
-Cougar Allen :{)
Sorry guess I hit the wrong button on my mental calculator. The exact specifications of the strander knives are 18 1/2" long, 2 to 2 3/4 "wide, and 1/4 to 3/8" thick. I was using Canadian calcultions and forgot to add the exchange! The knives are made of a material called "uddeholm chipper" and are heat treated to Rc 55-58. I can get a whack if you arrange shipping, or we can do a trade deal.
Sorry guess I hit the wrong button on my mental calculator. The exact specifications of the strander knives are 18 1/2" long, 2 to 2 3/4 "wide, and 1/4 to 3/8" thick. I was using Canadian calcultions and forgot to add the exchange! The knives are made of a material called "uddeholm chipper" and are heat treated to Rc 55-58. I can get a whack if you arrange shipping, or we can do a trade deal.
Sorry guess I hit the wrong button on my mental calculator. The exact specifications of the strander knives are 18 1/2" long, 2 to 2 3/4 "wide, and 1/4 to 3/8" thick. I was using Canadian calcultions and forgot to add the exchange! The knives are made of a material called "uddeholm chipper" and are heat treated to Rc 55-58. I can get a whack if you arrange shipping, or we can do a trade deal.