I have a good source for machine tooling cuttings. This is all tool steel curly ribbons from an industrial machine shop. They are fairly oily with cutting oil, but don’t really have any other contamination. This is not floor sweepings or grinding dust.
Does anyone know if there’s a practical way to utilize this in canister Damascus?
I believe it will be fairly easy to rinse off the oil in a solvent. I have not yet tried to get powdered steel fully packed around and into this stuff, but I’m pretty sure it would have voids. Does anybody here have experience with this?
Does anyone know if there’s a practical way to utilize this in canister Damascus?
I believe it will be fairly easy to rinse off the oil in a solvent. I have not yet tried to get powdered steel fully packed around and into this stuff, but I’m pretty sure it would have voids. Does anybody here have experience with this?