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Bandsaw Blades used in Damascus?
A local company here was kind enough to hook me up with a fair bit of scrap band-saw blade, they make band-saw blades, so they had a lot.
So here's the deal, the wood blades are 1074, and the bi-metal blades are 1074 and m2 on the teeth. Considering the thickness do you think that they would be good to use in damascus? |
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you can . I did some years ago and used banding material with them for the nickel. The M2 in them will not allow you to anneal it. so plan on forgin to shape or cutting with an angle grinder.
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I assume you are talking about steel banding used in shipping?
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yes sir
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It is great to have a good supply of scrap steel that you know the make-up of... those should work just fine. I'd suggest adding 15n20 for contrast.
__________________ A good friend told me one time about forging "What is there not to like, you get to break all the rules you were told as a kid, don't play with that it is sharp, don't play with fire, and don't beat on that" Wade Holloway See some of my work. |
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If I remember right, we used two pieces of bandsaw and one of steel banding to get the best ratio for color.
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Steel banding is usually a 10xx series steel, so with 1074 you will not get a lot of contrast, if any... 15n20 has about 2% nickel and should give very good contrast.
It is interesting that 15n20 is often used for bandsaw blades, however the huge ones that lumbermills use (the ones I've seen are 11" wide and who knows how long). Aldo has it as thin as .058" and up to .130" thick.... __________________ A good friend told me one time about forging "What is there not to like, you get to break all the rules you were told as a kid, don't play with that it is sharp, don't play with fire, and don't beat on that" Wade Holloway See some of my work. |
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15n20 is wood cutting blade and is made of 1074 with 2% nickel.
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Yeah, these are scraps from when they were making mill blades and very large metal cutting bandsaws.
I'm curious, would 5160 do well since I don't have 15n20 on hand? |
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I have never had any luck fire-welding 5160 to anything, and the one time I did get it to weld it came apart in the quench... so I tend to avoid using 5160 in patternwelding (some makers do not have this problem, but some do). You could try it, but 1074 is shallow hardening while 5160 is not, and this could cause problems during HT.
__________________ A good friend told me one time about forging "What is there not to like, you get to break all the rules you were told as a kid, don't play with that it is sharp, don't play with fire, and don't beat on that" Wade Holloway See some of my work. |
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