Is forging always necessary?

Nathan the Machinist said:
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're trying to say, but most tools are not injection molded and pretty much no knives are injection molded (other than, you know, disposable polystyrene plastic knives, but we're not that kind of blade forum here) . Injection molding is a process for molding thermoplastic polymers (plastic), not metal.

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Don’t forget those mother of plastic handles.

Hoss
 
Joseph Gardner said:
Traditional blacksmith, everything from creating alloys to forge work. So if by knife maker you mean someone who grinds steel into knives, yeah. Theres file work and get it hot and dunk it, and then theres understanding.
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I think your level of understanding is very low.

Hoss
 
I have created alloys ... just not in steel.

I have participated at a smelt in a tartara, which is making steel with virtually no alloying. Depending on the tartara size and the charge, it takes from 12 to 24 hours to get a bloom with a couple pounds of usable steel with unknown carbon content.

My favorite totally false demonstration of creating alloys was in the movie, The Iron Mistress", where the blacksmith melts a meteorite in a charcoal forge to create the alloy for the Bowie knife. He drops chunks of it into a crucible and they melt right away ( clearly pot metal or similar), then pours it out of the open crucible as a shiny liquid silver metal into an open mold of the blade (obviously mercury).

I read of chaps thinking they can just stick their scrap steel in the forge and will get a special alloy.
 
Lol well if you guys never experienced that in salvage steel im happy. If that tool making process is just local then disregard it. :)

Alloys arnt that hard to make lol, its just a skill set being able to make stuff entirely from scratch or from salvage.

Theres nothing complicated about it either, you just need a space to build a brick chimney and alot of charcoal and some satanite. You can make bloom steel, blister steel and crucibles with that and of coarse you have to have no life lol.
 
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