I found a great source for easy to find free knifemaking steel!

Daniel Fairly Knives

Daniel Fairly Knives

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I was looking for some free steel that did not any special fancy heat treat and found it!

I don't know why I spend all my money and free time researching this stuff when it was so easy.

It was just laying there, right next to the search engine! In the frenzy to pick it up I lost my spell checker buy hey know bg deel!
 
Deweyknives said:
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I was just kidding around, it seems half the posts in shoptalk are about using found steel. I was making light of the obsession we all seem to have as beginners.

I was saying people are as likely to find free good steel as they are to use the search engine or do some reading.

Patrice Lemée;11196035 said:
Friends don't let friends post drunk! :p
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:D If so then I could have stood a chance of making sense versus posting when just waking up! That was pre-coffee... lol!

bladsmth said:
Glyd U fund et. I uze th samstuf.
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EzaCtely! :)
 
You SHOULD start a blog about ridiculous knifemaking. You can include stuff like the "power of rainbows", "found steel" and the like. I get a kick out of the humor in your sarcastic threads/posts. It would be good to see them in one place.
 
Rick Marchand said:
You SHOULD start a blog about ridiculous knifemaking. You can include stuff like the "power of rainbows", "found steel" and the like. I get a kick out of the humor in your sarcastic threads/posts. It would be good to see them in one place.
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I agree.... I thought it was hilarious, but I work in IT so thats why I say a blog would be great...
 
Rick Marchand said:
You SHOULD start a blog about ridiculous knifemaking. You can include stuff like the "power of rainbows", "found steel" and the like. I get a kick out of the humor in your sarcastic threads/posts. It would be good to see them in one place.
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Don't forget to add "I heard you can you use Pepsi as quench oil (or really any other liquid that wasn't intended to quench steel)" and "can I use this mystery metal I bought on eBay for a knife, and if so, how do I heat treat with a Zippo lighter"
 
Bob,
I know you are just trying to be helpful, but please don't post rubbish like suggesting that Pepsi makes a good quenchant. It could get someone killed if the bottle exploded due to thermal shock. Besides, the narrow bottle opening makes it hard to quench a full size sword.

Also, if someone drank the Pepsi after using it as a quenchant for Aldo's 1084FG they could die of vanadium poisoning, as it will dissolve the vanadium out of the steel.

Finally, If you had read the stickies, you would have known that Pepsi is used to anodize titanium, not as a quenchant. (Just for the record, I use Orange Crush, as it gets better red colors.)
 
Stacy... I hate to correct you in front of the guys but...

The science behind the cola-quench clearly shows that optimum results are achieved at the moment of atmospheric introduction to the carbonated beverage. If you truly understood the process, you would be plunging the austenitized blade through the side of an unopened 2quart bottle. Pepsi is the slower of the two... Coke is more suited for active hamons.

... and don't forget to soak the quenched blade in the crisper drawer of your fridge, overnight.... with a onion cleft in twain to soak up the RA via osmosis.
 
This thread is great guys. Thank you so much for passing your wisdom on, it helps a lot. Rick are you using plastic bottles and what kind of onion? I keep sweet onions in the cupboard but would a handful of green onions work in the crisper? Also I have heard that I can use a melon to quench after tempering, do you know which kind?
 
tattooedfreak said:
This thread is great guys. Thank you so much for passing your wisdom on, it helps a lot. Rick are you using plastic bottles and what kind of onion? I keep sweet onions in the cupboard but would a handful of green onions work in the crisper? Also I have heard that I can use a melon to quench after tempering, do you know which kind?
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Plastic bottles. If all you have is glass, you'll need to raise your austenitizing temperature to the melting point of glass.

I think you are patronizing me and I'm offended. If my experience is not welcomed without question, then I will move on and find a crowd that is more deserving of truth. My knifes speak for themselfes.


Ps. Freak... I am moving to Mahone Bay, NS in November. We'll have to get together at some point. BigBlue tells me you truly are a tattooed freak.:thumbup:
 
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Rick and Stacy,your both way off base!Everyone knows thast lemon lime soda is actually the best.The carmel color in cola slows the quench considerably.I will agree that stabbing in to an unopened bottle is the best way to go,also for great hamon activity coat the spine in peanut butter.

Stan
 
Well, I'll be blunt:
Stan is from Texas, where it gets so hot their brains get fried, and they don't believe anything.... Rick is from Canada, where it gets so cold their brains get numb, and they will believe everything .

I'm from Virginia, and I know what I believe - I don't believe either of them is right.

Pepsi/Coke is used for anodizing titanium here. Orange Crush is best for quenching eutectoid steel here. Perhaps in the upper regions of Canada/Siberia, or the hellish oven of Texas, the physics of the universe work different, but in Virginia they still work like they did for my good friend Albert.
Aldo and I have been working with a scientist from a State University who is doing a paper on the effects of quenching 1084 in Orange Crush. It will be published in a journal soon.
 
bladsmth said:
Aldo and I have been working with a scientist from a State University who is doing a paper on the effects of quenching 1084 in Orange Crush. It will be published in a journal soon.
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This wouldn't be one of those future publications that forever remains in the future, would it? I hate those.:p

Fun thread.
 
RC Cola? Could you do an interrupted quench, 3 seconds in RC Cola, then plunge teh blade into a stack of Moon Pies?

randy
 
Daniel- When yer heads clears, can you send me a small piece of barstock. I want to make a knife.
 
Lycosa said:
Daniel- When yer heads clears, can you send me a small piece of barstock. I want to make a knife.
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Can do! I have some cast iron pans I can send you, the iron is waayyyyyy better than steel. It's really high carbon from all the cooking over fires I did with them, the carbon migrates in and makes them hyper-ectoid!

I also have some sawzall blades that are probably solid extra high speed steel. You could just glue scales to them and then send them to the waterjet place where they will be fully finished to a true mirror finish... hamons are $5 extra. I work harden the blades by cold filtering them with rocky mountain spring water.
 
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