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 | | From: | alvinj at XX.com | | Subject: | Skeleton knife | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:09:31 +0000 (UTC) |
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 | This is a crazy thing I just re-finished a week ago.
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/electriciansS.jpg
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/electriciansSx.jpg
Here's where I got the new blade...
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/6375-C1.jpg
That's a picture of the HSS knife blade I screwed up on and forgot
to figure out where the soft and hard parts of the power hacksaw
blade came together. And its replacement.
The X'ed out part is soft enough to easily file and drill.
Less than 45hrc? :/
Not wanting to waste it and wondering just how screwed up it really
is ...figured I could put it in an old electrician's knife I made a
skeleton-knife out of. This thing had a knife blade I fixed up from
the old screwdriver blade, just re-shaped and re-heat treated.
It was given to a guy as a test-piece and was one of my very earliest
"pocket knives" I messed with. Anyway he uses it as a back up for
cattle work but the blade got broken. He wanted it back with a new
blade... couldn't talk him out of it... into something better! :)
He likes it that much. ;)
Anyway there it is.
The other half (plus handles) was in my tool box of my pickup and
given to the iron-wood-carver in Kino Bay Meh-he-co.
The funny part is, is how much easier it was to get an extra nice
edge on the hard part compared to the soft part. It was no where
near as much of a pain in the ass as sharpening stainless steel
but still, it reminded me of it. :/
I'm figuring on replacing this blade as soon as it shows any signs
of not being good enough.
Alvin in AZ
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