Steel identification

[Raymond Richard]

Hint: Think old and there not leaf springs from the Nina, Pinta, or Santa Maria.......

 

[B Finnigan]

Is that the steel that Achim sent you from France? Wasn't that stuff that was 400 yrs old?

 

[warrior24]

how about IG's belt buckle from when he was a kid.

 

[deker]

the texture makes me thing of shear steel. Something along those lines?

-d

 

[rocketmann]

blister steel???

 

[indian george]

how about IG's belt buckle from when he was a kid.

I heard that:jerkit: :jerkit: Besides when I was a kid we used snew.

 

[indian george]

Is that the buggy springs????

 

[scottickes]

I don't know what kind of steel it is. I only know that I like the way it looks!

 

[crex]

Neat looking etch Raymond! Model A leaf spring? Just a guess, I like it no matter what.
I get something very similar on blades I forge from those big RxR lockwashers. I edge quench and then etch for a long period in white vinegar. Had someone tell me once that they were caused by bubbles tracking during the etching. Called him on it by etching some horizontally and still got the same longitudinal grain pattern (boy, that was easy). The grain pattern follows the forging compression caused by reducing and drawing the tang out.

 

[Dan Gray]

I'll guess wagon steel steel

nice looking steel and blades Ray :thumbup:

 

[B Finnigan]

Hint: Think old and there not leaf springs from the Nina, Pinta, or Santa Maria.......

Ray knows the exact type of leaf spring the three ships used because he was there and watched them being installed.

 

[A C Richards]

I had a simialr result from coil springs off a RR car. Left it in the etch a little too long but it turned out cool.

Chuck

 

[John Andrews]

how about IG's belt buckle from when he was a kid.

I go with this idea, too.

 

[Ramsey]

A "buggy" spring. Great looking blades...!

Ramsey

 

[David Wesner]

Whatever it is, I like it :thumbup: .........we anxiously await the answer

 

[indian george]

Ray knows the exact type of leaf spring the three ships used because he was there and watched them being installed.

Hell, he made them too.

 

[Pete Allan]

Looks like it came from a Medieval cross bow to me

 

[howiesatwork]

Studebaker?

 

[Barkes Knife Shop]

I like it. Look great from this end of my computer. Have a safe knife day in the shop.

Barkes :thumbup:
http://my.hsonline.net/wizard/knifeshop.htm
1.812.526.6390

 

[Raymond Richard]

You know why you have never seen remains of the three ships at the beginning of this thread? Someone took all the nails and turned it into mascus.

Ig's belt buckle? He'd break his neck if that was the case.

Three years ago I went on a search for some shear steel and bought several old large lumbermill circular saw blades. Up untill a couple weeks ago I had believed I struck out on the shear steel. I had tested all those blades shortly after I got them and figured all I had found was just saw steel.