Thread: What are you working on?

Looking good jmercer
I just finished this 2 and still working on the other 2

Originally Posted by rocarule

Looking good jmercer
I just finished this 2 and still working on the other 2

Thanking you.

Love the wooden handled ones with metal rings. Got a couple metal ones finished but left them original black. I do better photos when some of the others are done.



Set knot on old tight grained oak handled Chicago today that came out rather nice. Will give it a try tomorrow.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Am going to make a plaster Mold when time allows and cast some wedges out of Cerrobend,should be easy to do.

Been planning this for a while but haint dunnit yet.
Take two long pieces of cold rolled steel strip or ground flat stock one inch or more in width and smooth one side. Make sure they are dry and make a "V" that you can pour hot metal into. Should give you one long bunch of wedges to cut to length and thickness.
Use a higher heat Cerrobend if you want to spend the money, If not make sure the rig is solid and use your bullet casting crucible or a plumbers' ladle and a torch to melt lead or solder. Dry wood would work for stopping the ends.
You can see the possibilities and do it your way.
~Richard

A couple of things that went into the fire today.
The first 2 are in O2 tool steel.





And these 2 are in suminagashi with a core of Japanese white paper steel.

Interested in hearing your review of the Japanese White Paper Steel. Speaking of that, why do you think they named it like they did? I suspect it's got a bit of chromium for the name white in it, but I haven't seen what it's made of.

Originally Posted by shooter74743

Interested in hearing your review of the Japanese White Paper Steel. Speaking of that, why do you think they named it like they did? I suspect it's got a bit of chromium for the name white in it, but I haven't seen what it's made of.

Nothing so poetic I'm afraid. White paper steel is very clean. It has virtually no alloys. It's called white paper steel because it is wrapped in white paper.
Blue paper steel is more like modern tool steel, and wrapped in ... blue paper.

Originally Posted by Bruno

Nothing so poetic I'm afraid. White paper steel is very clean. It has virtually no alloys. It's called white paper steel because it is wrapped in white paper.
Blue paper steel is more like modern tool steel, and wrapped in ... blue paper.

There are plenty of sites out there with info on the various White paper and Blue paper steels from Hitachi online.
The compositions can e.g. be seen on this page.
A bit down on the page.

Basically there are 2 White paper steels and three Blue.

White steel seems very popular in Japanese cutlery these days, and imho for good reason.
Properly heat treated they can easily take, and hold a superior edge for quite a long time.

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ANyone know of an importer here in the U.S. that I can get some from as I would like to try it?

Originally Posted by shooter74743

ANyone know of an importer here in the U.S. that I can get some from as I would like to try it?

None that I know of.
In fact the only source I know at all is Dictum in Germany.

Originally Posted by Bruno

None that I know of.
In fact the only source I know at all is Dictum in Germany.

Would the tamahagane steel nakago portion of an old katana work for making a razor?