First knife
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Dale Allen
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Nice one Cody. If I may ask, what oil did you use for heat treat? I built a forge but am still just getting started.
Dale
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mark james
IAP Collection, Curator
OK MacGyver, so that's where my saw blade went.
Very, very nice!
Very, very nice!
Cwalker935
Member
It was a 10" blade. I have an old band saw that I put a metal cutting blade on and used that. I tried cutting with an angle grinder but hat was taking too long so I tried the bandsaw. I did use he angle grinder to do the rough shape on the blade.
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Roger Boisclair
Member
NOTHING goes to waste. Nice job!!
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Charlie_W
Member
Very cool!! Before you know it, you will be on Forged in Fire 
WriteON
Member
If you made it it's a work of art
Very nice work, wish my first was half as nice!
Be careful with saw blades with carbide teeth, the base blade isn't always good for blade steel. The ones with teeth ground directly on the blade have to be made of hardenable steel. Also, Vegetable oil makes for better quenching oil, thicker oils are slower to pull the heat out of the steel reducing the chance of getting a hard blade.
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Be careful with saw blades with carbide teeth, the base blade isn't always good for blade steel. The ones with teeth ground directly on the blade have to be made of hardenable steel. Also, Vegetable oil makes for better quenching oil, thicker oils are slower to pull the heat out of the steel reducing the chance of getting a hard blade.
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johncrane
Member
Nice work Cody!
TellicoTurning
Member
Very nicely done.... don't think I'll ever try to make a knife though... if I don't burn myself doing the heat treatment, I'd probably cut my fingers off sharpening.... as careful as I try to be, some tools and I just don't seem to get along... they will find a way to bite me. 
