[TheForge] Re: Steel question

[Mike]

> L6 was traditionally used in large saw blades, where contacting a
> knot and being shocked was likely.  Very tough stuff, a bit red-hard
> under the hammer.  Makes a good blade in bowies, camp knives etc.

The old guy I got my Jardine 25# from made butcher knives -- very
wide, hefty ones used for real butchering -- from band saw blades,
several inches wide, that he got from a contact at a big
industrial-scale sawmill.  He didn't forge them, just cut them out,
sharpened and polished them and put slab grips on.  Claimed they were
best quality knives.  He'd been making knives for butchers and
fishermen for decades so he should have known.

I have a blank he cut out.  One of these times I'll finish it to his
shape and see what I have.


- Mike

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