On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 16:03:45 -0700
"Bob La Londe" wrote:

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The rest all looked to
me like precut keystock to me. Slightly rounded edges and a squared off end
with slightly rounded edges. Out of curiosity I grabbed my spring punch and
hit several peices of it with the punch, and then I went and got that lathe
bit and hit it with the spring punch. They all got a very tiny divot or
punch mark, but the mark seemed to be the same size on all of it.

Maybe try bending a piece. HSS doesn't bend very well (snap!) and most
tool steels don't either (shrug).

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Leon Fisk
Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b
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