Tacticlol Knives II: The Return of Ridiculous

GAGL said:
imagine working in a factory where they make this crap...

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This is either a prop, or a replica of the prop of the "First Blade" from that show Supernatural. And yep, it was supposedly made from the jawbone of an ass.
 
Drop forging throws a molten blob of steel into a die, and smacks it with another die to squeeze the excess steel out, and form a knife shaped billet that generally needs less grinding than a typical stamped billet. This process has pros and cons, but, done properly, will result in a perfectly good knife.

Casting is pouring molten steel into a mold, then the knife shaped billet is ground and heat treated. This process has pros and cons, but, done properly, will result in a perfectly good knife.

Key word in both is "done PROPERLY."
 
justjed said:
Drop forging throws a molten blob of steel into a die, and smacks it with another die to squeeze the excess steel out, and form a knife shaped billet that generally needs less grinding than a typical stamped billet. This process has pros and cons, but, done properly, will result in a perfectly good knife.

Casting is pouring molten steel into a mold, then the knife shaped billet is ground and heat treated. This process has pros and cons, but, done properly, will result in a perfectly good knife.

Key word in both is "done PROPERLY."
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The two processes sounds almost identical.
 
Drop forged kitchen knives are usually made from a fat wire which is heated to red hot before the top die smacks it lying on the lower die. The forming is done without a crank on the upper die because an improperly heated wire placed in the works would break everything. The weight of the upper die does the job. The tooling is expensive. The product usually has a thick bolster at the center of the knife with a tapered tang and tapered blade. The thickness of the blade diminishes from spine to edge, but the thickness of the tang is uniform from top to bottom.
Although this process yields many desirable features, It does not work well with highly alloyed steels.
 
tiguy7 said:
Drop forged kitchen knives are usually made from a fat wire which is heated to red hot before the top die smacks it lying on the lower die. The forming is done without a crank on the upper die because an improperly heated wire placed in the works would break everything. The weight of the upper die does the job. The tooling is expensive. The product usually has a thick bolster at the center of the knife with a tapered tang and tapered blade. The thickness of the blade diminishes from spine to edge, but the thickness of the tang is uniform from top to bottom.
Although this process yields many desirable features, It does not work well with highly alloyed steels.
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Thanks for the detailed description! Verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry informative.

Mikel
 
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