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Okay, since I was asked....

Heres the entire remaining pile of plasma cut sawblade strips.

They range in length from around 6 inches to about 11 inches of usable area.
(Estimating conservatively.)
1/8th inch thick steel, from a circular lumber mill type saw blade.

$5 apiece plus $7 insured shipping, or $55 shipped for the whole lot to US addresses.

(Sorry if you live outside the US.. It would cost me more to ship to you than I am asking for them.)

Great for practicing on, but too rusty and pitted for me to make knives to the quality standard I maintain.

Lets be clear.
These are RUSTY and PITTED.
None of the pits are all that deep, but the surfaces are not smooth.
I would have to grind and sand away too much of the surface to make them presentable for it to be worth my while.

But if you are looking for a cheap piece of decent quality hard steel to make a seax or some similar blade for practice?
Ideal.

I guarantee nothing about the temper or hardness of the steel beyond that they are definitely hardened.
I did not cut these.
I bought the lot as is off of ebay, and have no idea of how they were cut beyond that they appear to have been plasma cut.

I more or less cleaned up one to judge the condition, and made a short seax blade out of it that I did not finish, and sold in another thread.

Thats about all I can think of to say, and theres not really much else I can tell you.

Payment by paypal.

-Badger-

That looks like some fine steel for knife making.
A little grinding, sanding, polishing, heat treating and tempering they should be fine.

I have some dull carbide tipped circular 14" dia. cut off saw blades.
Would the base metal be of quality?

Best of luck on your sale.

Hal

They will work just fine for knifemaking.
But I make professional quality pieces of the best quality I can.
I am most likely being too nitpicky....But I like to start with steel thats as pristine as I can manage.

The cutoff saw blades-
Hm....
I'd have to see them, but sop long as they aren't strange "mystery metal" stainless, pretty much any sawblade makes good knives.
(Even the stainless alloy blades will work..I just hate messing around with stainless for knives.)

I tend to prefer older carbon steel alloy, but I have used stainless sawblades at various times.
None recently, but I never found a sawblade that simply would not work right for a knife.

The usual problem is steel thats too thin.

Big, mill type "buzzsaw" blades work exceptionally well...But they can be either 1/8th thick, or 3/16ths.
Buying off of ebay, I have to ask to make sure because the sellers usually don't think to list that information.

For these steel pieces, I'm just not willing to put the work into cleaning them up to my rather strict standards.

-Badger-

Halberds wrote:That looks like some fine steel for knife making.
A little grinding, sanding, polishing, heat treating and tempering they should be fine.

I have some dull carbide tipped circular 14" dia. cut off saw blades.
Would the base metal be of quality?

Best of luck on your sale.

Hal

I'd also entertain offers for the lot.

-Badger-

Whole thing is now sold.


-Badger-