tape measure san mai :)

hellize

hellize

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Hello.

Have a freshly finished knife available.
Its total length is 22.5 cm / 8.9 inch. The blade's length is almost 11 cm / 4.4 inch , its width 37 mm / 1.45 inch and its thickness 4 mm / 0.16 inch.
The blade is a san mai, forged of 5160 carbon steel and tape measure blade. 5160 gives the edge!
The handle is made of beech wood and deer antler.
Its sheath is made of thick cow leather.

It is available ;)


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Hah, that's cool, I honestly never thought about tape measures being a source of decent carbon steel, but sure enough there seems to be plenty that are made with ~1060 carbon steel: http://www.china-tapemeasure.com/material-for-products/steel-strip-for-measuring-tape.htm

It sure would been cool to know this back when I first started making knives and was looking for anything and everything that could decently hardened with a forge and bucket of oil or water lol. I used to try using steel straps for damascus to raise the layer count but still keep the billet relatively small due to hand forging it, but I could never find some that would actually harden. Anyway, great idea! :)

~Paul
My Youtube Channel
... (It's been a few years since my last upload)
 
coldsteelburns said:
Hah, that's cool, I honestly never thought about tape measures being a source of decent carbon steel, but sure enough there seems to be plenty that are made with ~1060 carbon steel: http://www.china-tapemeasure.com/material-for-products/steel-strip-for-measuring-tape.htm

It sure would been cool to know this back when I first started making knives and was looking for anything and everything that could decently hardened with a forge and bucket of oil or water lol. I used to try using steel straps for damascus to raise the layer count but still keep the billet relatively small due to hand forging it, but I could never find some that would actually harden. Anyway, great idea! :)

~Paul
My Youtube Channel
... (It's been a few years since my last upload)
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Thanks! :)
Hehe, yeah, I was in the same shoe for a lot of years. Finding good steel which is also thin was really hard, so for a lot of years my layer count stayed well below 100. Raising it further with hammering by hand was simply too hard.
Then I eventually hooked up on saw blades for wood and metal and most of this layer count problem was solved. :D
 
That's cool! How did you clean all the coatings off??
 
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