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Del's trying to make a fillet knife from a full-hard power hacksaw
blade and me being a desert-rat, don't know nuthin' about fillet knives and can't help. The easiest way to go about this I believe is if there are common factory-made fillet knives out there that have certain properties you like, used as examples we could check out, so the descriptions wouldn't be so difficult. What do you think? Got any ideas about fillet knives you'd like to share? If you could take your favorite parts of a few different factory fillet knives and put them together in one knife, what parts would that be? Are there any special edge-angle changes you make to your own factory-made fillet knives? Alvin in AZ |
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wrote in message ... Del's trying to make a fillet knife from a full-hard power hacksaw blade and me being a desert-rat, don't know nuthin' about fillet knives and can't help. The easiest way to go about this I believe is if there are common factory-made fillet knives out there that have certain properties you like, used as examples we could check out, so the descriptions wouldn't be so difficult. What do you think? Got any ideas about fillet knives you'd like to share? If you could take your favorite parts of a few different factory fillet knives and put them together in one knife, what parts would that be? Are there any special edge-angle changes you make to your own factory-made fillet knives? Alvin in AZ Fillet knives seem to be similar to flexible boning knives. I am not sure exactly what the best shape is. They need to be flexible so they can be held flat against the cutting board to remove the skin, relatively narrow (which mine isn't particularly) to turn the corner from cutting down to the backbone to cutting along the backbone, and able to cut rib bones or other bones and scales. And do all that for as many fish as possible before needing sharpening. The buck fillet knife isn't bad. I'll put some wood handles on what I got with epoxy or gorilla glue. If I need to work on the shape or thickness and they are in the way, then removal and redoing won't be a big chore. I even considered just wrapping with tape, prison style. del |
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15 degrees at the edge and thin enough to that point that the 15 is not
a huge transition from body to edge. In other words if you are not carefullly holding 15 degrees your abrasives will scratch the rest of the blade. |
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wrote in message oups.com... 15 degrees at the edge and thin enough to that point that the 15 is not a huge transition from body to edge. In other words if you are not carefullly holding 15 degrees your abrasives will scratch the rest of the blade. That isn't a concern. That stuff is so hard I can hardly shape it. And a few scratches don't bother me. I am more interested in shaping, etc. |
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15 degrees at the edge and thin enough to that point that the 15 is not a huge transition from body to edge. In other words if you are not carefullly holding 15 degrees your abrasives will That's exactly the sort of insight/opinion we're looking for! Anyone else got an opinion? Alvin in AZ |
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Hi Alvin,
I'm wondering if a full hard power hacksaw blade might be a bit too stiff to make a good fillet knife, I had my best results using the spring steel body material of a bi-metal bandsaw blade,, (the part you have left after grinding the high speed steel teeth off) The 1 1/2 X ..042 blades seemed to work the best for me for full size fillet knives and the 1 1/4 X .035 blades worked real good for making specialty blades for removing the Y bones from nothern pike and muskies. Bear in MN |
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I'm wondering if a full hard power hacksaw blade might be a bit too stiff to make a good fillet knife, I had my best results using the spring steel body material of a bi-metal bandsaw blade,, (the part you have left after grinding the high speed steel teeth off) The 1 1/2 X .042 blades seemed to work the best for me for full size fillet knives and the 1 1/4 X .035 blades worked real good for making specialty blades for removing the Y bones from nothern pike and muskies. Bear in MN James P Crombie wrote: I'll second that, I had a couple of power hacksaw blades once apon a time :-) After several hours and burnt fingers plus a worn out grinding wheel, I didn't have much to show for it. I would go for the spring steel. I'm not here to play "gotcha" but doggonit I gotta tell you. :/ Steel, iron and stainless steel and high speed steel all have the same stiffness. What you are feeling is its thickness -and/or- its yield point (in the case of iron and mild steel). No kidding. :/ If you can't see it, this thread is as good a place as any to get that straightened out. Here is a page from a local knife firm and their fillet knives http://www.grohmannknives.com/pages/fillet.html Those pictures raise the questions I was planning to ask today. Flat ground the best you suppose? They look flat ground to me. Do you see a hollow-ground blade being a problem? What do you think? Hollow ground blades are easier to maintain an acute angle to the edge, but with the wear rate of HSS that's really not and issue here (and I ain't kiddin''bout that neither get it right and it's good for life (if you don't break it or lose it). If you can make one, you can make another even better than the first? Re-reading Bear's post... 7/8" wide .050" thick full-hard (65hrc) power hacksaw blades are avaiable along with .032" ones too but they are pretty stinkin narrow, look almost like a hand hacksaw blade. Del's working with a 1+1/8" wide .062" thick Simonds. http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/hosting/Delsfirst1.jpg http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/hosting/Delsfirst2.jpg It's a used railroad rail saw blade, see where the base of the rail scraped off the paint? -------------- As far as metal removal... the answer is... "little hand grinder" sportin' a Norton-NorZon wheel and to go along with that, a heavy duty "mounted point dresser". Or a regular "star wheel" dresser that held down somehow. Clamp the blade to a board and grind it like you mean business. http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/dresser.jpg Those are 1/4-28 bolts and the front "wheels" are hard-1095 discs from a paper shreader mounted on a slice of VW-36hp cam follower (motorcycle wrist pin was my second choice. They are still in the "wonder if they'll work worth anything" stage. When the NorZon wheel stops cutting aggressively, stop and dress it. When the wheel is cutting aggressively it's easy since there is lots of "feed back" to work with. Little progress = little feed-back. In that case you're lost and not knowing what to do. ---------- Edge angle, blade thickness, blade width, hollow ground versus flat ground... those are the questions that only experience can answer. Please post your experiences. Alvin in AZ |
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On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 wrote:
Flat ground the best you suppose? Traditionally they are flat ground, some are dual ground, essentially running a hollow above the flat which is supposed to keep the blade contact surface down and make the blade go through the fish easier. I have not used them but it seems a reasonable idea. Do you see a hollow-ground blade being a problem? Not of the style you run. Some hollows have a "T" shape which wedge high at the spine and they are annoying for deep cuts. Edge angle, blade thickness, blade width, hollow ground versus flat ground... those are the questions that only experience can answer. The best I have seen are made by Phil Wilson, they are 1/8" thick, under an inch wide, with a full distal taper so most of the working blade is much thinner. The edge is 0.005" thick, he essentially grinds down to nothing and sharpens back. The edge angle is about 10 to 15 degrees. How light depends on what is being done, some use the same knife to remove the head and/or tail so there is bone work being done, it also depends on the fish, if you are just cutting flesh and small bones in cod and similar you can run more acute angles. It also depends on the steel, most are softer stainless so you need more of an angle to get the strength to prevent rippling/distortion. -- Cliff Stamp http://www.physics.mun.ca:80/~sstamp/ The one unforgivable sin, the offence against one's own integrity, is to accept anything at all simply on authority -- Maureen Johnson Long Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. -- Publilius Syrus |
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Sorry for the late reply, I've been away from my computer for a while,
All I know is that you get a nice flex / resharpening frequency with a 56hrc blade and the 63hrc blade snapped when I tried putting a 9 inch blade to about a 45 degree flex. The 63hrc blade does make an exellent trout knife, it doesn't need to flex like a fillet knife does,,, so if you can accurately temper (draw) it back, yes the power hacksaw blade will work great. If you are grinding it clamped to a board you most likely are getting the blade hot enough to be drawing the hardness down a bit anyway,, but you have to be real lucky to be able to do it that way consistantly without burning the blade, although soaking the board with water might help a bit as a heatsink. I grind mine held in my bare hands with the blade supported with my fingertips so when I start at 63 or 65rc I finish at the same hardness because my fingers won't let me hold onto a blade much over 200degrees F. (it's a very slow prossess) When I read "full hard" in the first post I thought you meant to leave it that hard so I may have miss-read your intent. Happy grinding, Bear I'll catch back up with you in a week,, the ice just went out of the lake my parents live by this past week,, I'm after some of those 2 pound crappies so I can test out my 10inch fillet knife. |
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wrote in message ... In rec.knives wrote: Sorry for the late reply, I've been away from my computer for a while, That's ok, some of you actually have a life away from newsgroups. All I know is that you get a nice flex / resharpening frequency with a 56hrc blade and the 63hrc blade snapped when I tried putting a 9 inch blade to about a 45 degree flex. If Del breaks the sucker, that's his problem. But that isn't the question anyway. What geometry would you suggest in a fillet blade? Was the blade that you broke "full hard HSS" made from a power hacksaw blade? How thick and how wide was the blade on that broken blade? Was it a forged blade heat treated by a bladesmith? I have a full-hard tungsten HSS hand hacksaw blade here that can flex more than 120 degrees. No kidding on any of that. The back of that sucker absolutly cannot be filed. It's made in Sweden and brags on the fact that it's tungsten HSS (and spark tests right). The tungsten based HSS's are considered to have slightly less strength and only slightly better edge holding. So here we go again the flexibilty of the steel has mostly to do with cross section. The 63hrc blade does make an exellent trout knife, it doesn't need to flex like a fillet knife does,,, so if you can accurately temper (draw) it back, yes the power hacksaw blade will work great. Have you "drawn the temper back" on HSS like that before? If you are grinding it clamped to a board you most likely are getting the blade hot enough to be drawing the hardness down a bit anyway,, but you have to be real lucky to be able to do it that way consistantly without burning the blade, although soaking the board with water might help a bit as a heatsink. I grind mine held in my bare hands with the blade supported with my fingertips so when I start at 63 or 65rc I finish at the same hardness because my fingers won't let me hold onto a blade much over 200degrees F. (it's a very slow prossess) Oooo... what you just wrote is perfect for hardened carbon steel but is not needed for HSS, it can handle the heat. It takes 40 hours at 1200F for M2 HSS to be drawn down to 45hrc. It takes 100 hours at 900F for M2 HSS to be drawn down to 64hrc. That ain't a typo, Page-689 ASM's Tool Steels 4th Edition. When I read "full hard" in the first post I thought you meant to leave it that hard so I may have miss-read your intent. Happy grinding, Bear Yes, we're completely knuts that's the whole point of making it from a power hacksaw blade. The steel has already been heat treated to high strength and at its best edge holding hardness by the factory. We want to use their heat treating knowledge and expensive equipment to our advantage, even if it's just to cut up a stinky old fish. That's why we're called "knife knuts"? :/ I'll catch back up with you in a week,, the ice just went out of the lake my parents live by this past week,, I'm after some of those 2 pound crappies so I can test out my 10inch fillet knife. Cool. Get back and tell us about it. Compare this... You've done enough hand hacksawing to know that a carbon steel hacksaw blade with teeth at about ~65hrc will wear out pretty dangged quick. And a high speed steel-toothed saw blade at about the same hardness usually gets changed out when you get tired of a kink in the blade, not because it quit cutting. Am I anywhere close to your experience on that? I've got several brands of all-hard (full-hard) hand hacksaw blades around here and they are a hand-hacksawer's dream, they don't kink. You push them hard enough they'll break. If you push "un-breakable" type (carbon steel, or bi-metal or "flexible HSS") hard enough it would break an all-hard one, the un-breakable type would kink to beat heck and be ruined, anyway. IME, the un-breakable type are weaker than the all-hard breakable type. YMMV Metallurgy theory agrees with me on that, BTW. The all-hard ones cut straighter, in my expereince, it's true what they say about the all-hard hacksaw blades cutting straighter than the "un-breakable" kind. No kidding, see for yourself. We (knife knuts) want to take advantage of the extra edge holding ability HSS has over carbon steel at 65hrc. HSS holds its edge 5 to 7 times as long as high carbon steel at 65hrc according to industry's sales pitches. But knife blades aren't 65hrc from the factory, right? They aren't hard like carbon steel taps and hacksaw blades, like you're used to working with, they are much softer than that. I drew the temper on a couple plain carbon steel hand hacksaw blade to soften them up like a custom knife (~58 hrc) not as soft as the typical factory knife. Yeah the factorys say they are that hard but they weren't counting on you having access to a $10,000 Wilson hardness tester, now were they? It's to their advantage to fudge-toward the soft-side for production reasons when they're grinding 10,000 knives per hour. Ok, enough BS about the "about right for a knife blade is 58hrc" knife magazine bull****, the ~58hrc carbon steel saw blades were -forced!- to cut though 1/4 what the factory-hard ones would cut. What number-value a guy could put on that is up for grabs, I put "at least 4 times" but right away the ~58hrc ones didn't cut worth anything. Can you imagine drawing all your carbon steel taps for an hour at 525F so they'll "be easier to re-sharpen" -as sold to you- in the knife magazines? Until you get used to knives for certain cutting tasks that are hard like a tap or hacksaw blade teeth, then you just don't know the magic of them. The extra hard knife blades cut into stuff that the soft ones won't because the soft one's edge rolled so quick, you didn't really get a chance to evaluate the original edge. No kidding on that. It's not just "edge holding" it's "cutting ability" or "edge integrity" that makes it cut so extra good and keep cutting. I'm not saying you can get this from a newsgroup post, it's something you have to experience yourself to really get it. Alvin in AZ I guess we will see if I break that poor feeble thing I sent the picture of. Right now it is a little stiff for my taste but I figure I can always take off some more, but it is hard to put steel back on. Only fillet knife I ever broke was a buck lakemaster that broke when I used the handle as a club to knock out a walleye that was flopping too much. Held the blade carfully so as to not cut myself. I was surprised when the handle and tang went flying. Buck sent me a new knife, free. I have a Dick boning knife that is actually too flexible. So we will see. I have to get a handle of some sort on this one. I think a piece of 1 by 2 maple will be it for starters. Shape it up a little, get a slot cut in it, and epoxy away. If I don't like it, it'll come off easy. del |
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Right now it is a little stiff for my taste but I figure I can
always take off some more, but it is hard to put steel back on. I have a Dick boning knife that is actually too flexible. So we will see. Wow Del, you had the answer all along! Grind what flexibility you want into it, and call it good. Steel's steel and anything other than a few odd ball situations the geometry will work itself out while you get the metal thickness down to the flexibility you want. -As long- as you keep one eye peeled to form a wedge shape to the blade's cross section? I have to get a handle of some sort on this one. I think a piece of 1 by 2 maple will be it for starters. Shape it up a little, get a slot cut in it, and epoxy away. If I don't like it, it'll come off easy. del Later say, if you decide the handle you have on there, you want to stay-on forever, drill some holes through it and epoxy in some pins? Do what you want with it, when you want to do it. That's the cool thing about making your own besides getting to make it out of a steel that industry uses to cut stuff because it's the doggone best. Alvin in AZ |
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You are working with HHS,, Sorry, disreagard everything I said,, the
one I snapped was made from an ancient carbon steel power hacksaw blade, it was about 1 inch wide by right close to .080 thick if I remember correctly. |
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Most fillet knives are too bendy in my opinion. The fillet knife I was most
impressed with ever was lost. It was made from a blank by Bob Engnath and the reason I liked it so much was because it was about 50% stiffer than any other. Bob made it that way without any prompting on my part but when I queried him on it he surprised me by making a passionate statement about how fillet knives were too floppy and therefore lacked control. The spine was a full 1/8 inch thick near the handle, flat ground with a full length distal taper all the way to the point so the flexibility changed depending on if you were working near the tip or the handle. If you were working on a small delicate fish you could take advantage of the flexibility at the tip and if the fish was bigger you could use the blade closer to the hilt and take advantage of the extra stiffness. This way you had a range to work with. I gave it a rolled edge. I don't think fishermen care if the blade is scratched. Also the average fillet knife is about 3 inches too short Daithi wrote in message ... wrote: 15 degrees at the edge and thin enough to that point that the 15 is not a huge transition from body to edge. In other words if you are not carefullly holding 15 degrees your abrasives will That's exactly the sort of insight/opinion we're looking for! Anyone else got an opinion? Alvin in AZ |
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I've had a fair amout of practice grinding HSS, in grinding tool
blanks into metal cutting tools for the mill or the lathe,, even for a shaper or two,,but have yet to make any knives from it with the exception of two 1 1/4 inch blade chip carving blades for a woodworking friend back when I was in tech school, made those from a parting tool for a metal lathe,, I just ground the blades, he made his own handles,, and said it worked out great for him. Let me know how this project turns out,, I've often thought HSS would work out well for a lot of different kinds of blades, (mostly while carving mild steel with my Schrade Uncle Henry Bear Paw ) although I was leaning more to hunting knives,, caping and skinning blades , just never took the time to give it a good try. Nor the cost to get a new parting tool of sufficient size to make a nice knife from. Too many old files laying around for easy access for blade blanks I guess. Bear BTW I noticed that fact about tapered tangs not helping the cutting ability of a knife much too. only put it on one knife on purpose,, and one to correct a wrap in heat treat that was all in the tang,, but I did those the easy way,, with a surface grinder. |
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missed this somehow
So I'm praying for calmer waters Bear "pray in one hand and **** in the other and see which one fills up first " -alvin So how did it go with your fishing trip? Get to fillet a bunch of fish? PS the factory blades that I checked on the Wilson back when I was working for the tool company all tested pretty soft too. only exception was a broken Shrade "Bear Paw" lock back that tested out at 63, I dropped the dern thing and it snapped right where the grind starts,( I think it missed the temper cycle in the heat treat some how) Sounds like it. It sure as heck didn't miss the cold treatment tho. Way back in the early 80's (before I started studying metallurgy) a friend had a Case Trapper where the spey blade somehow missed getting tempering or something. It took and held an edge like crazy right up until he was wittling down a new shovel handle and broke the sucker. Famous last words for that blade... "i knew better than to use this blade for that, but used it anyway" We'd talk about it, how he needed to save that blade for only working cattle, but he just couldn't help himself, he -had- to find out what it was capable of. BTDT too :/ Alvin in AZ ps- David MacDonald (CitCo brand) tested 65.5hrc under the de-carbed surface, that's one of the first tests (out side of the factory) made on that new Wilson pps- Nicholson said theirs were "64 to 65hrc" but I've never tested anybodies all-hard power hacksaw blades that tested less than 64.5hrc ppps- knives made from that stuff (M2) will friggin "hold an edge" ...believe it? |
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wrote in message ... missed this somehow So I'm praying for calmer waters Bear "pray in one hand and **** in the other and see which one fills up first " -alvin So how did it go with your fishing trip? Get to fillet a bunch of fish? I'll let you know about my fishing trip after memorial day. The ice is off the lakes and we are going canoeing. PS the factory blades that I checked on the Wilson back when I was working for the tool company all tested pretty soft too. only exception was a broken Shrade "Bear Paw" lock back that tested out at 63, I dropped the dern thing and it snapped right where the grind starts,( I think it missed the temper cycle in the heat treat some how) Sounds like it. It sure as heck didn't miss the cold treatment tho. Way back in the early 80's (before I started studying metallurgy) a friend had a Case Trapper where the spey blade somehow missed getting tempering or something. It took and held an edge like crazy right up until he was wittling down a new shovel handle and broke the sucker. Famous last words for that blade... "i knew better than to use this blade for that, but used it anyway" We'd talk about it, how he needed to save that blade for only working cattle, but he just couldn't help himself, he -had- to find out what it was capable of. I haven't quite figured out what "working cattle" is, unless it is making steers out of them. Only thing involving cattle that a little sharp knife would be good for that I could think of. BTDT too :/ Alvin in AZ ps- David MacDonald (CitCo brand) tested 65.5hrc under the de-carbed surface, that's one of the first tests (out side of the factory) made on that new Wilson pps- Nicholson said theirs were "64 to 65hrc" but I've never tested anybodies all-hard power hacksaw blades that tested less than 64.5hrc ppps- knives made from that stuff (M2) will friggin "hold an edge" ...believe it? |
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I'm no longer working at a well equiped shop,, with the exception of my
little belt grinder (in the picks I sent you) and a 1X30 and a 6 X 48 belt grinders I'm back to making my blades much in the manner you are. You don't know how often I miss that p[lace!!! Bear |
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I haven't quite figured out what "working cattle" is, unless it
is making steers out of them. Only thing involving cattle that a little sharp knife would be good for that I could think of. Since they run wild and take care of themselves, first is "round up" that's an all year around thing, certain seasons are busier with it tho. Could be 6 head could be 180. Sorting, singling them out, getting them on the ground ("tailing them over") tieing up their legs using a "piggin string", branding (using running irons since there are way too many brands to keep track of and the typical branding iron looking thing don't work worth anything), horn removal (mostly knife work sometimes a saw or tree limb cutters is used to get things started, "ear marking", that's the job that needs a knife that'll cut hair in mid-hair and the ear is always full of grit and dried mud. The best factory knife, Case with the chrome vanadium steel won't take much of that business. The owner decides what to do with each young bull, if one is looking like he's worth saving, there's a discussion about that (that I don't understand, might as well be a foreign language. Letting some go right there and trucking some. They have several "emasculators" that look like extra large nickel plated pliers that you don't want any of your own "parts" in, no matter what part. But, those things are about as much trouble as they're worth. Certain guys think they speed things up and/or do a better job others won't touch 'em and use only a knife and "running iron". As far as cows having trouble calving if they die they friggin die. Several of the ranches that's been bought-out were ones that had fancy cows and the ton of medicine, calf pulling chains and plastic gloves that easily go to your shoulder and all that stuff. They went out of business, all their stock sold off and some cows that can take care of themselves (part Long Horn) are put on the place and money made from the place again. One ranch even came with buffalo, talkin about a pain in the ass. Alvin in AZ |
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Greetin's
the fishing was great, what little time I actually got to do any,, all of one afternoon in 2 weeks the catching however left much to be desired,, 4 small yellow perch smaller than the crankbaits I'll be tossing next month, I saw quite a few fish that I want to get back and try for once that spieces season opens,, muskies in the 4 foot range,, just hanging right at the surface soaking up the sun,, and I found out that if the person running the boat startles one you didn't spot by getting the boat too close to it, it can really shock you back from daydreaming!! but that season doesn't open until next month. walleye and northern pike both open in the middle of this month. So instead of getting much fishing in Dad and I went over to his first cousin's place so I could make up the piece parts he needed to rework the way the front running gear is on his mower to correct a design flaw,, I had to spend a good 4 hours with a bucket of mineral spirits and rags to clean off about 10 to 15 years of grease and dust from his old lathe before I had convinced myself that it was still capable of boring a bearing seat for a sealed ball bearing,, it's been a good 30 years since the last time I ran an old Atlas,, and that one was about 3 or 4 sizes bigger than the one I had to work with,, Dad was very happy with the parts when I got done so it was a good trip anyway. have fun, Bear |
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fillet knife blade's geometry?
On Sun, 7 May 2006 22:14:46 -0500, "Del Cecchi"
wrote: wrote in message ... missed this somehow So I'm praying for calmer waters Bear "pray in one hand and **** in the other and see which one fills up first " -alvin So how did it go with your fishing trip? Get to fillet a bunch of fish? I'll let you know about my fishing trip after memorial day. The ice is off the lakes and we are going canoeing. PS the factory blades that I checked on the Wilson back when I was working for the tool company all tested pretty soft too. only exception was a broken Shrade "Bear Paw" lock back that tested out at 63, I dropped the dern thing and it snapped right where the grind starts,( I think it missed the temper cycle in the heat treat some how) Sounds like it. It sure as heck didn't miss the cold treatment tho. Way back in the early 80's (before I started studying metallurgy) a friend had a Case Trapper where the spey blade somehow missed getting tempering or something. It took and held an edge like crazy right up until he was wittling down a new shovel handle and broke the sucker. Famous last words for that blade... "i knew better than to use this blade for that, but used it anyway" We'd talk about it, how he needed to save that blade for only working cattle, but he just couldn't help himself, he -had- to find out what it was capable of. I haven't quite figured out what "working cattle" is, unless it is making steers out of them. Only thing involving cattle that a little sharp knife would be good for that I could think of. BTDT too :/ The O Ring Machine works quicker and easier. http://www.syrvet.com/pro_castrat.html The Cord Crusher..always gave me a cold chill..... http://www.jefferslivestock.com/ssc/...le&dept_id=492 As you will note..they are specifically noted to be not recommended for dogs. This is due to the fact that unlike swine or lambs..dogs have teeth and will come looking for you after being so treated..... Alvin in AZ ps- David MacDonald (CitCo brand) tested 65.5hrc under the de-carbed surface, that's one of the first tests (out side of the factory) made on that new Wilson pps- Nicholson said theirs were "64 to 65hrc" but I've never tested anybodies all-hard power hacksaw blades that tested less than 64.5hrc ppps- knives made from that stuff (M2) will friggin "hold an edge" ...believe it? "I think this is because of your belief in biological Marxism. As a genetic communist you feel that noticing behavioural patterns relating to race would cause a conflict with your belief in biological Marxism." Big Pete, famous Usenet Racist |
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