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Jared Stenoien

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I just found out that my shop teacher tried his hand at knifemaking a few years ago but never really did anything with it, and he has a 5" piece of SS damascus that he'll sell me really cheap, it's too good of an offer to pass up seeing as how I was planning on making a folder with it after the santuko, but it's .125" thick and I'd like it to be .0625", anyone willing to roll it down for me? I'd like to roll it because then I could get more use out of it. I'd need it rolled down slightly oversized and then get it surface ground, email me the price if you're willing. Thank you.
 
You may consider that rolling the billet will elongate and distort your pattern a bit. When using mine for the final billet thickness, I need to consider this when making the initial billet by making initial patterns much tighter for the final results.

I have never rolled SS but there may be another maker with a rolling mill that has and can jump in with some do's and don'ts.
 
Surface grind it.
You'll have a heck of a time (not to mention high risk to the material) cold rolling blade steel damascus that much.
 
Don't the people that do carbon damascus do it while it's hot? I wasn't thinking of cold rolling...and yes I realize it would elongate it some but it's
S-Infinity.jpg
that pattern, I stretched it with photoshop and it still looked ok to me
 
Yep, when I roll damascus, it's hot. While it's nice to conserve material, I don't think you'll gain much on this piece. It would probably be better to mill it down and grind it to clean up.

Jamie
 
Just to explain why it isn't practical, When the piece is heated to the high temps necessary to roll it, then rolled, cleaned up ,and reground, you won't have much left. The guys who do this start with BIG billets and roll them to smaller ones. If you start wit a small one you get nothing left.

Just use what you have. You can weld a tang of ATS-34 or 440C onto the piece and make a nice kitchen knife. Just make the ricasso about 3/4 to 1" from the weld. You might have to have someone at a welding shop do it for you unless you have a TIG or MIG setup. They won't charge much, and will most likely do a better job. Remember to temper the blade after the weld to take the brittleness out of the weld. The joint will be properly treated in HT, but you don't want it snapping off while grinding and sanding the blade.
Stacy
 
mrstenoien is that Infinity Damasteel ? Nice Stuff :thumbup: I would go with the suggestions to grind down to the size you need and go from there. You will already have gotten your moneys worth from it because of the great deal. I think you've been around long enough to realize there will always be scrap when using the stock removal technique. ;)
 
*sigh* I guess I'll just have to grind it down then, Stacy it's actually going to be a pocketknife so I won't even have to weld a tang on it, I was just hoping to get more than one from the billet :grumpy: so on that note, anyone willing to surface grind it?:D


and yes it is the infinity pattern David
 
mrstenoien said:
*sigh* I guess I'll just have to grind it down then, Stacy it's actually going to be a pocketknife so I won't even have to weld a tang on it, I was just hoping to get more than one from the billet :grumpy: so on that note, anyone willing to surface grind it?:D


and yes it is the infinity pattern David
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I can do that for ya, just let me know. You cover shipping & we'll call it even ;)
 
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