Man am I dumb

Whit

Whit

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I need somebody's great idea to make up for my stupidity. I bought a piece of A2 Tool Steel on eBay. I THOUGHT the dimensions were 6" x 7" x .080" I figured I'd make a couple of kitchen knives for myself. Well it was .80" thick. Now I have this 10 pound chunk of air hardening steel.... what the heck can I do with this thing? It would cost me a fortune to get it cut. Any ideas? Anything handy around the shop that I might not be thinking about? I guess the good news is I got 10 times the steel for a price that I was happy with to begin with! Thanks,

Ryan
 
Whit, find sone one with a band saw and have them
cut slices off of it asuming that it is anneled,
if it is hard good luck. Gib
 
well you could harden it and bolt or lash it to a wood log to use it as a anvil. or hee hee, use it for a boat anchor:D
 
If you're like me and lacking a metal cutting bandsaw, use cutoff blades on a side grinder. I do a lot of the profiling with this method. Harbor freight has side grinders for less than $20.
Cheapscate, Lynn
 
A metal cutting chopsaw would make short work of it and give you quite a few blade sized pieces. Cut into smaller chunks then chop the chunks into slices. You'll lose a bunch of steel this way on account of the thickness of the abrasive wheel and it would be nice to have a surface grinder for flattening the resulting pieces. A file should skate right off of it if it has been hardened.
 
You might consider drilling the steel and using it as the base for your drill press vice. The heft would make your vice much more stable.

Please let us know what you finaly do with it :)

Dave
 
I thought maybe it would make a nice belt buckle for someone from Texas...
 
Ax head. You can get it cut on an EDM to exacting sizes (Kit carson does this with thick stellite to get .125" stock...nice finish. I recommend selling it to a pounder and getting something more suitable.
 
After you pay 100.00 set up fee and the the time for the machinist to cut it you could have some really expensive kitchen knives. At .080 that sounds like some folder material if its not hardened.
 
Well thanks for all of the ideas. I was leaning toward anvil for awhile, but I like the idea of an integral. So my next question is, what should I expect to pay to get a 7" x 1 1/2" x .80" chunk milled to let's say .2". Most likely a 3" blade and then about 2" of the handle milled out. Pretty expensive? Oh, and it isn't hardened, so I have that going for me! Thanks again
 
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