In preparation, knives can be made this way.
The leaf springs were salvaged from a car wreck. “The junkyard supermarket” in a WROL situation.
Although power tools were used to cut this high tensile steel, with a good forge, heating material and forge tools, it is possible to heat and cut the steel.
Another way is to hot hammer heated steel, from a charcoal forge, an example in the closing stage of part two of this series.
Post time: Jul-04-2017