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Offline Thesquirrelslinger

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Forging a drawknife?
« on: July 02, 2013, 06:04:37 pm »
OK, so I am too cheap to buy a decent drawknife. Knowing me, a normal drawknife would be broken in days the way I work. So I intend to forge a heavy duty drawknife. I have some medium-high carbon steel in the the form of RR spikes, and some mild steel in the form of bar stock. I will pretty much be just ripping bark off with this thing, and maybe some osage if I get some.
What I am thinking is pretty simple- just take a bar of steel, draw it out to lengthen, then forge a decent edge, then grind a proper edge onto it. Forge small "tangs" on each side, attach wooden handles, done.
Sound good?
Thanks for advice!
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Offline KHalverson

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Re: Forging a drawknife?
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2013, 06:30:03 pm »
forge that sucker from the mild steel ya have and quench in super quench
itll get to maybe 40 rc
Kevin
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Offline Thesquirrelslinger

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Re: Forging a drawknife?
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2013, 06:42:58 pm »
Quote from: KHalverson on July 02, 2013, 06:30:03 pm
forge that sucker from the mild steel ya have and quench in super quench
itll get to maybe 40 rc
Kevin
So it will be good enough?
I can't get super quench... brine seems almost as good based on the websites I am reading. I am thinking cold brine.
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Offline KHalverson

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Re: Forging a drawknife?
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2013, 08:17:02 pm »
1 # salt per gallon of warm water
I bottle dawn dish soap  I get mine at dollar general
I bottle jet dry 
home brew super quench
it works great.
just don't use on high carbon .05 or higher
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Offline Thesquirrelslinger

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Re: Forging a drawknife?
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2013, 09:41:59 pm »
Quote from: KHalverson on July 02, 2013, 08:17:02 pm
1 # salt per gallon of warm water
I bottle dawn dish soap  I get mine at dollar general
I bottle jet dry 
home brew super quench
it works great.
just don't use on high carbon .05 or higher
Is super-quench that much better than brine? Thanks for the recipe!
( don't think this can be used on RR spikes...)
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Offline KHalverson

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Re: Forging a drawknife?
« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2013, 03:34:32 pm »
i couldn't comment if its that much better than brine
my experience with brine is pretty much low
I use the super quench on rr spikes
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Offline Thesquirrelslinger

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Re: Forging a drawknife?
« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2013, 04:52:45 pm »
Quote from: KHalverson on July 03, 2013, 03:34:32 pm
i couldn't comment if its that much better than brine
my experience with brine is pretty much low
I use the super quench on rr spikes
Ah. So its not truly super quench(I have been told to NEVER use super quench on medium-high carbon steel, it will shatter)...
Perfect... Drawknife is starting to come along.
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