Thankyou So Much

[Aldo Bruno]

I write this post to the many of you who, in the past have ordered the 1084(both 1/4"x1 and 1/4" x 11/2") through Mace and I. We have just recently sold the last of the 11/2". When I realized, last summer, that I could even get a hold of it I was excited to think I could get this out to so many of you who had been looking for this seemingly rare metal.

The 10,000 pounds of 1/4" x 11/2" 1084 that I ordered, worked out to be 10,670. The man who rolled the steel to it's final shape was one of the best and squeezed the extra 670# out of an 11,000 billet. The order arrived last October and here we are a year later and I have NONE LEFT! (Short of 50# that I owe to a certain Master Smith) and I have only 3 pieces left in my personal stock.

In the last 2 1/2 years we have shipped or delivered over 22,000# of either 1" or 11/2 1084 and another 1000# of 5/8-W-2. It has all been very well received. It gives me great pleasure to open up the Show and Tell Forums, the ABS Quarterly and the monthly Magazines and see pictures of the knives that are now being made by the so many talented makers in this country and knowing that I had a bit of a hand in it.

It was never my intention to continue in this endeavor, but it seems the demand continues and I love what I do. We are working on the next load and at the moment trying to find an available billet. If we need to get it made we will not have it rolled till late spring.(Not good to have it rolled in the dead of winter)

We are also looking for W-2. It seem that when Detroit stopped using it as an auto spec. steel it fell to the wayside. Don Hanson has done a great service to us all by find and getting out what seems to have been the last stockpile in the USA. We are looking in Europe to find available stock or tag onto an existing order. We will keep you informed.

Thank You All So Very Much,

Aldo Bruno

 

[jdm61]

Good work, Aldo!! Guys like you, Mace, Don and others who have gone above and beyond to find us poor metal pounders the good stuff are an invalubale asset. Some of the guys at BB have told me that W2 is still around in
Europe and also used a fair bit in Japan, but at a higher carbon content than the stuff we have been using lately. I wonder what Toyota is using for their tooling stock at their big Camry plant in Kentucky?

 

[sunshadow]

Aldo, thanks for finding the good stuff and making it available! I'm certainly looking forward to the opportunity to buy some of that 1 1/2 inch that I was too slow on this round..
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[David Schott]

Heres one i made with the stuff! Still have about 20 feet worth! Thanks for everything you guys did!

 

[Scott Hartman]

I really like that 1084 too! This was my first forged with 1084, and my first hamon. I've forged 6 others in 0-1, but the 1084 does seem to work easier under the hammer(for a rookie )

 

[Aldo Bruno]

Scott and Dave,

Thanks for the pics. Keep up the good work!

Would love to see others if anyone has them.

Aldo

 

[deker]

Thanks a million for all he hard work Aldo! Thanks to you I made my first damascus:

and the first knife I ever sold:

the billet for the newbie collaboration:

my first mosaic (with some help from J. Neilson):

and a pile of other stuff. When you find another billet to have rolled, you can bet I'll be buying more. Of course, now that you're out, I'll have to keep what little I have left and horde it until you get more made

-d