[TheForge] bicycle chain steel

[Jonathan Barnhart]

If your in serious doudt, sandwich a piece of tool
steel that you know and trust, in between two pieces
of the chain steel.  Or split the chain steel down one
side and weld in the good steel(technique is called
San Mai and was used in Japanese blade construction
for knives, daggers, and swords).  Then make your
blade.     





--- Andy Gladish <gladish at cablerocket.com> wrote:

> I made some "damamscus" from bike chain this week-
> does anyone know what  
> type of steel that might be? I've read that they use
> 4340 for frames, but  
> a couple casual Google searches doesn't turn
> anything up for steel used in  
> chains.
> Andy
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