Nice steel.

[Phil Pascoe]

Anyone got anything interesting to say about steel? .........laminated? damascus? making knives? chisels? turning tools? (nothing about waterstones please - go start another thread).

 

[DIY Stew]

Try this http://vimeo.com/album/1577465 basic but very interesting

Stew

 

[Racers]

Have a look at this http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/11/the-li ... scinating/

Not a waterstone in sight :shock: :wink:

Pete

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Both interesting, in different ways.
Thanks, Phil.

 

[Benchwayze]

Phil,

If you don't want to talk about Waterstones, you shouldn't have mentioned them.
So you have started a discussion; well, according to some you have! :roll: :lol:

I just saw a video on YouTube watching some guy shaving with a meat cleaver. I only watched it because I thought we were going to see him slit his jugular or something! But the cleaver was a lovely piece of steel!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWd17wm7 ... playnext=1

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I used to have an Estwing axe that could shave a strip of hair from my shoulder to my wrist. Some pineapple relieved me of it.

 

[Benchwayze]

Impressive Phil.

I haven't got any hair worth shaving above my elbow! :lol:

 

[whiskywill]

Anyone got anything interesting to say about steel? .........laminated? damascus? making knives? chisels? turning tools? (nothing about waterstones please - go start another thread).

I once worked for a pressure vessel manufacturer who had a purchasing sytem where the engineer had to specify components and materials and the purchasing department ordered them.
When some vessel dished ends arrived with laminations in the steel, which is a fault unlike when laminating to make blades etc., the purchasing department were told that "new dished ends are needed, these are laminated" the purchasing manager spent a couple of days trying to buy laminated dished ends.

Is that interesting or just stupid??