Sawzall blade for knife?

Sawzall blade make good knife?

  • Yes

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • No

    Votes: 16 100.0%
  • Total voters
    16
The vast majority are Bi-metal. Meaning the teeth are hardenable steel welded onto a softer body steel. Grinding it into a knife will remove these teeth. Therefore removing the hardenable steel area. You would be far better off to get something like 1084 and make knives from that. In the end a sawzall blade just isn’t really going to make a decent blade. Combine that with the fact they are typically too thin for much of a knife anyway, since most are .030-.050.
 
Grayzer86 said:
The vast majority are Bi-metal. Meaning the teeth are hardenable steel welded onto a softer body steel. Grinding it into a knife will remove these teeth. Therefore removing the hardenable steel area. You would be far better off to get something like 1084 and make knives from that. In the end a sawzall blade just isn’t really going to make a decent blade. Combine that with the fact they are typically too thin for much of a knife anyway, since most are .030-.050.
Click to expand...
Ok thanks for help
 
I have ground a couple to a knife edge for cutting foam. If you can find one of the old high carbon blades it works OK in the sawzall. But there's lots of other steel out there that would make a better knife.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top