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Patience, friends, patience...

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What makes you think that?

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Taking things *very* slowly with this as I don't want to rush anything and make a mistake, but it's coming along. I'm trying to avoid the grinder, so there is a ton of hand sanding going into this. ...

You're 100% correct. But then, :brunoisright :)

I flattened the tang and spine, and in the process the blades turned to foil. I think by the time I was done, they were more scale than steel. So I...

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It's very nearly an RSO...

At the moment it's freakin' HUGE, but I wanted to leave some extra in every dimension to allow for whoopses and unforseen bit that need to be ground off. But...

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Looks like it turned into a solid billet, so there's hope it might actually work. :)

So I decided to jump down the rabbit hole today...

I started with twelve razors that were, for one reason or another, beyond repair/salvage.

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I have a list out in the shop of what all...

OK folks, we need to star the campaign here: get Bruno and a few other razor makers on FIF for a straight razor special. :)

I wish they would branch out into other aspects of smithing beyond bladesmithing. But I imagine that's where the ratings are.

Ah, but not if they're squared off first. :)

I should have clarified - I would be going down the pattern welded billet road, not smelting. I was nervous enough melting down some copper and aluminium in my forge. No way I'm stepping up to molten...

I was going through my accumulated junk here yesterday when I came across a good sized bundle of blades that are beyond repair, so the thought of trying to forge them into a billet returned. Just...

Different steels have different hardening properties. The non-magnetic point (aka critical temp) is the point at which the steel is quenched either in oil, water, in air, or in some other magic goop....

That was my working theory, so I'm glad someone else had the same idea. In any case, heat treat will be a guessing game, not knowing the exact composition of any of the steels.

I'm very tempted to try making a pattern welded billet from some of the old blades I have kicking around that are beyond repair. I'll have to add that to the list of projects... :)