socks 32,253 Posted June 3, 2019 Report Share Posted June 3, 2019 I had a couple of hours spare today so I decided to try forge welding a knife out of old chainsaw chains which I had cut into 5 inch pieces ..... Welded them together in 2 stacks of 9 pieces then welded the two stacks together to make a nice billet so burned off all the oils and impurities then spent the next couple of cycles fluxing the billet Before forging it out ... I got plenty of heat into it and I felt as though it had all come together well. But when I ground it down although the pattern was real nice I could see there were to many cracks through the billet. so lesson learned for later on in the week .... I will make 2 smaller billets and forge them together to see if that works better ............ 3 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
socks 32,253 Posted June 3, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2019 Cheers mate I hadn’t seen that but confirmed my suspicions ... my billet was twice that size and without a power hammer I just couldn’t get the centre to forge tightly enough .... smaller billets later this week 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
j j m 6,547 Posted July 3, 2019 Report Share Posted July 3, 2019 As you say we live and learn/I'd be rubbish at anything like that Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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