The local pawn shop often gets used tools in on pawn and sell. Tool sets often have broken tools and allen keys in them, so they throw them in a bin. I stop by about once a month and pick out what I want for dirt cheap, and sometimes they just let me take them for free. Great source of raw material.
Many that I used, were discarded ones from work, with an occasional twisted bit. I simply cut them off at the bend, and reshaped and polished them. They are a bit fiddley being shorter length. The majority are Bohndus/Bondhus brand (sp?) and have served me well without hardening and tempering. I also have not worked much with thicker copper gauge sheet. I tend to use sections of copper pipe, annealed and split for sheet
I'd just torch temper it to a straw colour maybe blue in the back (striking) side. Fun vid as always man. And, I swear you're almost the Canadian doppelganger of a friend of mine.
Well from what I can gather the steel for chasing/graving tools is sometimes so thin . As evident in a few you created. You will want to get a nice straw color. I'm certain you know this already. With this being said it may be easier to just tempor with a torch. At least this is how I would do it. Have you ever looked at the geometry of gravers like GRS . GRS offers guides to sharpen said tooling To a very precise degree . These are relatively easy to recreate. Look up if you haven't yet sharpening graving tools on RUclips and you will see what I mean. A lot of the hand gravers/chasers are made from drill steel and you can buy the blanks at GRS as well. I hope something in this post helped lol. Great video it would be interesting to see how you came up with the desired degree for your cutting edge. Martin
The local pawn shop often gets used tools in on pawn and sell. Tool sets often have broken tools and allen keys in them, so they throw them in a bin. I stop by about once a month and pick out what I want for dirt cheap, and sometimes they just let me take them for free. Great source of raw material.
Oh yeah I forgot about pawn shops.
Many that I used, were discarded ones from work, with an occasional twisted bit. I simply cut them off at the bend, and reshaped and polished them. They are a bit fiddley being shorter length. The majority are Bohndus/Bondhus brand (sp?) and have served me well without hardening and tempering. I also have not worked much with thicker copper gauge sheet. I tend to use sections of copper pipe, annealed and split for sheet
Nice
Again, great choice of music! Thanks for the idea of using an Allen key set, never occurred to me . Lol
Glad it helped.
..Good idea with the allen wrenches Christopher !! I have a mess of them fixin to see some fire in the next few days...!!
Glad you liked it, Ol James!
Good job. Thanks.
Thank you R King!
220c works welll for me not sure what equivalent is
Known steel. Good idea.
I'd just torch temper it to a straw colour maybe blue in the back (striking) side. Fun vid as always man. And, I swear you're almost the Canadian doppelganger of a friend of mine.
Glad you liked it, Ukon Rauta Ironworks!
Apparently there are a lot of folk that look like me and visa versa.
Well from what I can gather the steel for chasing/graving tools is sometimes so thin . As evident in a few you created. You will want to get a nice straw color. I'm certain you know this already. With this being said it may be easier to just tempor with a torch. At least this is how I would do it. Have you ever looked at the geometry of gravers like GRS . GRS offers guides to sharpen said tooling To a very precise degree . These are relatively easy to recreate. Look up if you haven't yet sharpening graving tools on RUclips and you will see what I mean. A lot of the hand gravers/chasers are made from drill steel and you can buy the blanks at GRS as well. I hope something in this post helped lol. Great video it would be interesting to see how you came up with the desired degree for your cutting edge. Martin
Thank you M&S BLADES! I just kind of eyeballed the angle.
Great video man
Thank you S&S Smithing!
Allen/hex keys should be made of a steel similar to 8650 for future reference
Thank you
nice video
Thank you Danny Jukes!
A friend of me make every month for 3 or 4 hours only nails. Just for getting better.
Really good idea!
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Me likey!
Glad you liked it, Christopher Craft!