Scrap Material

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greatlakeswaterjet

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Just wondering if there is a use for any of the scrap material I have. ATS-34, 154-CM, CPM154, S30V, 1095, 1080 and lots of others. These range in size, but most are small "not big enough for a knife". Can this be used for damascus or anything else? Should I keep this stuff or take it to my scrap yard?
 
Send em my way, PLEASE:D. I'll take whatever you have in those steels that you can spare, I can get a useable blade out of quite small bits of steel, and it is great for making small tools. I would say you could cut it up and stick it in a can with some metal powder and make mosaic damascus, but I am not sure.
 
If any of those scraps are big enough for the little knives you're cutting out for me, I'll gladly take them off your hands!

Whit
 
I don't have scraps that big. I'm talking about small! I usually have very little scrap left when I cut.
 
the carbon steels (1095 and 1080) can be very useful for random canister type stuff, i don't think the others would work very well
 
Stacy recently posted potos of miniature knives 1" long !! There's a project for you !!
 
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=537288
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=537288
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=536739
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=529542

These are some recent ones. One of my nicer minis is in the Knives 2007 book on pg. 121.
I have done four or five more in the last week. One is a 1:30 scale Fairbanks Smatchette, another two are Richard Raymond clones exactly like the one shown, except 1/2 and 1/4 the size of the one in the thread. That would make the set 1:10 , 1:20, and 1:40 scale ( 1.6", .8", .4").All are made exactly like a full size knife. Hardened and tempered blade, shaped tang (hidden in this case) with threaded end,guard/bolster, butt cap, stag handle, either acorn nut or peened tang.Thread sizes go from 7/0 to 13/0.
I am planning on entering a collection of minis at the Shenandoah Valley Show in April.
I'll post a picture of the batch in a week or so.

The smallest I have made is a set of five daggers. They are 24mm,12mm, 6mm,3mm,1.5mm. The largest is 1:12 and smallest is 1:200 scale.
Stacy
 
A local damascus knife maker who taught me makes minature damascus fixed blades complete with deer point handles and sells them for hat pins! He can't make them fast enough. Just a thought. He's getting old and his hands aren't what they use to be and he looses several in his shop polishing the brass bolsters!
 
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