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Old 12-09-2013, 02:35 PM
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I will add that the mild Home Depot/Lowes steel can make for nice practice blades (save money while trying) as long as the grinder understands that they will never become a knife but can be used as a pattern if you like that shape and would like to repete it.
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Old 12-09-2013, 03:00 PM
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I'd argue against mild steel for practice on the basis of saving money, to me that's a false economy. Mild steel at my local hardware stores costs as much or more than 1084. You use the the same belts, supplies, and time to do the grinding but you completely eliminate any possibility of making a real knife if the blade you create turns out to be especially nice. And, if you decide to keep it as a pattern 1084 is just as good for that as mild steel. My mom would have called that penny wise and dollar foolish ....


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Old 12-09-2013, 04:57 PM
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Also part of making a knife is learning how to heat treat and you can't heat treat the mild steel. Those first blades that we hammer out are great for that. Most are good enough to use but not to give away. They make fine blades to test to destruction and to learn heat treating you are going to have to break some blades.

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Old 12-10-2013, 04:09 AM
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Hear! Hear!
You cannot learn to master a blade steel without working with that steel. You will expend "X" amount of time/effort learning to get it right with that steel. You are adding considerable T/E to the learning curve just to learn a small portion of what goes into making a reasonably good article of cutlery. The heart of a quality blade is thermal cycling and edge geometry, all else is incidental comfort, ergonomics and esthetics. These you will modify many times as you learn. Get the thermal cycle issues worked out and you most likely not change them, making that a constant to work from.


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Old 12-10-2013, 07:15 AM
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Ray, I do see your point and after further reflection I have to agree. I was looking at like I had some weld steel in the shop, which I did.
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