Jdm 5160

[rhrocker]

Now that it's been available for a while, I was wondering how everyone likes the JD 5160 that Dan was able to get for us? I've had very good, albiet limited results myslef. I think I've used 2 rounds of the approximately 20+ that I stocked up on. I use a hydraulic press, and work it fairly hot. Anyone have anything to add or offer about it? Any problem areas? Mine has been as advertised so far and I'm very happy with it.

 

[burke531]

We (Ed Fowler and myself) have been using and comparing it to the used steel from the load shafts and have found no dicernable differences. We are forging with power hammers and keeping the temps as low as possible. The last blade that I made and tested made six hundred slicing cuts on hemp rope and then was flexed nintey degrees and then turned around in the vise and flexed the opposite direction 180 degrees. The 180 degree bends were repeated seventeen times for a total of eigthteen bends in all with no failures or signs of iminent [sp] failure showing in the blade. after the fourth flex the blade did remain bent to about thirty degrees per side. (It quit returning straight on its own) so then I guess the rest were 180 degree bends? these tests were done with a five inch blade. No one at the test, could flex this blade by hand pressure and we had to use a piece of pipe eighteen inches long on the tang to make bending possible.

 

[Dan Gray]

Mine has been as advertised so far and I'm very happy with it

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We (Ed Fowler and myself) have been using and comparing it to the used steel from the load shafts and have found no dicernable differences. We are forging with power hammers and keeping the temps as low as possible. The last blade that I made and tested made six hundred slicing cuts on hemp rope and then was flexed nintey degrees and then turned around in the vise and flexed the opposite direction 180 degrees. The 180 degree bends were repeated seventeen times for a total of eigthteen bends in all with no failures or signs of iminent [sp] failure showing in the blade. after the fourth flex the blade did remain bent to about thirty degrees per side. (It quit returning straight on its own) so then I guess the rest were 180 degree bends? these tests were done with a five inch blade. No one at the test, could flex this blade by hand pressure and we had to use a piece of pipe eighteen inches long on the tang to make bending possible.

:thumbup: thanks for that Bill

 

[J. Neilson]

I've made quite a few customer blades out of the stuff along with my cutting contest knives and my 2 JS test blades (one at home-pre test/ one at Joe Szilaski's-real test). All the blades have performed wonderfully. The test knife I took to Joe's for the test not only didn't crack or anything during the bend but, afterward will still shave hair and slice newspaper, even in the bent itself. On the one I tested before going to Joe's I did all the same stuff and after the 90 degree bend (with the same results as above) proceeded to bend it 180 degrees (something Mr. Burke got me doing after our discussion at Blade last year thanks Bill). So far I've only done about 15-180 degree bends on that one but, nothing has changed on the knife or the cutting edge yet. It's still hanging in the shop waiting for me to keep at it, to see if I can break it. You don't even want to know what I've done to my old cutting contest blades.

It's good stuff.

 

[burke531]

Way to go J. and congratulations

 

[Alucard Dracul]

What hardening and tempering process did you guys use and what sharpening process did you use including stones and angles,i've only made one knife from an old file so far and i'm waiting for my forge materials to arrive so i can get my forge built and heat treat it,i worked for way too many years in the meat industry and have always sharpened my knifes at ten degrees with arkansas stones and always had a razor edge with a fair amount of durability but when i read about the testing you guys do makes me wonder how they would hold up,also one of my old workmates used to make knives for us out of files and he tempered them harder than commercial butchering knives and left the blade thickness the same from spine to edge which with the extra steel behind the edge and extra hardness made knives that were just unbelievable so i thought i would try make some knives along those lines but being a noob any information would really help

 

[deker]

What hardening and tempering process did you guys use and what sharpening process did you use including stones and angles,i've only made one knife from an old file so far and i'm waiting for my forge materials to arrive so i can get my forge built and heat treat it,i worked for way too many years in the meat industry and have always sharpened my knifes at ten degrees with arkansas stones and always had a razor edge with a fair amount of durability but when i read about the testing you guys do makes me wonder how they would hold up,also one of my old workmates used to make knives for us out of files and he tempered them harder than commercial butchering knives and left the blade thickness the same from spine to edge which with the extra steel behind the edge and extra hardness made knives that were just unbelievable so i thought i would try make some knives along those lines but being a noob any information would really help

You might want to try starting a thread with your specific questions. Bringing back a 4 year old dead thread with questions that don't relate to the original topic may not get you the responses you're looking for.

-d