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ATS-34, Wow that's hard!!!
I started my first knife in ATS-34. When I tried to cut out the shape on an industrial band saw, it hardly touched it. I don't want to use my grinder to make the shape because I am worried I will blow through belts.
How do you rough cut out a knife made of ATS-34????????? Last edited by ballisticbill; 10-04-2007 at 09:02 PM. |
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I bandsaw them, do you have a good blade on your bandsaw? Cuts pretty easy for me.
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Just like you would with any other fully annealed steel, in other words, it should be reasonably easy. Either your saw blade was dull or your steel isn't annealed. Where'd you get it?
Any way, I'm not a fan of ATS-34 any more and I've heard from a few other guys who won't use it any more due to some quality control issues that it has had in recent years. If the steel you have has a kind of black looking finish to it that could be your problem. ATS-34 gets this very hard, smooth, black scale on it in the manufacturing process and THAT crap is exceedingly hard! It's so bad that they even make a special belt to help you get it off there, it's called a Hermes Bubble Belt, and Tru-Grit carries them. If you buy your ATS-34 in Precision Ground bars you won't have that particular problem... |
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[QUOTE=Ray Rogers]Just like you would with any other fully annealed steel, in other words, it should be reasonably easy. Either your saw blade was dull or your steel isn't annealed. Where'd you get it?
QUOTE] I got mine from Texas Knife Supply |
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Does it have the black finish on it?
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If it's been annealed then the ATS-34 should be no tougher to cut than most other blade steels. I can't help but wonder....What do you consider "an industrial band saw"? Just in case you don't know, metal-cutting bandsaws run at much slower speeds than "conventional" bandsaws. The typical metal cutting saw that most of us use has 3-speeds... 80 fpm, 120 fpm, 180 fpm.
Also, if your blade is not "Bi-metal" you're gonna have a much more difficult time cutting steel. Dennis Greenbaum |
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