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Old 04-30-2016, 08:28 PM
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5160 simply doesn't play well with others (or with itself). Meaning that its one of the more difficult steels to forge weld.

Personally, I make all of my "plain" hatchets from mild steel, with a drifted eye, and then split the front and forge weld in a "bit" of 1080 steel.


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