noah_1

Thanks Bigfoot I realize the steel is too thin. Someone had mentioned on another forum that their maebiki left a 1/32" kerf. This made sense to me as i've read that Japanes blades are thinner than western ones and i've also read that pit saws are 1/16". I wish i would have researched more before ordering the steel as i've come to find most of those maebiki's are almost 1/10" at the teeth. Is epoxying two 1/32" pieces to make a 1/16" piece a ridiculous idea?

Hi, Please excuse my lack of knowledge and lingo and pith. I recently bought a piece of already tempered spring steel 1/32" by 12" by 7' with the hopes of making a couple of particular Japanese log ripping saws called Maebiki. The steel was not shipped in a coil but still had some weird type of kink to it. If you held the piece vertical so that you are sighting down the edge and rotated it say,counterclockwise, it will suddenly snap to the left causing the whole piece to shudder. If you then rotate it back clockwise it will stay locked in this position of being bent to the left a little past vertical and then snap or pop to the right. So i cant really say which way it is warped. It is pretty much impossible to even hold straight. I have cut the piece in half to 3 1/2 feet and both pieces do the same thing. THe piece was not shipped in a coil.Even if it was in a coil i would expect it then to have a standard bend in one direction. I was advised to pour boiling water on it and bend it in the convex direction. Of course i did not which direction that was but tried anyways. This put a regular warp in it which was then taken out when the process was repeated to the other side. The flip flopping remained. Anyone seen anything like this and any suggestions on removing? Is this likely an occurrence of the hardening or tempering process? Is there somewhere i could take it to to have straightened? I've seen the service offered of normalizing and also stress relieving.Can someone explaing those terms and are they at all applicable to my problem? Alternatively, is there some type of business i could have a piece of tool steel 2 inches wide welded to a piece of mild steel 10 inches to create a sheet 12 inches and have it tempered without warping? Or certainly there must be somewhere i can buy a piece of tempered spring steel that is straight?I have bought another piece before and it was bent too but it was for a frame saw so it did not really matter. I also thought of laminating the two halves into a plate 1/16 but was told this would not work on another forum. I don't have any metal working knowledge (as if you couldnt tell). I was thinkging using JB Weld. Anyone think that is feasible? thanks for any help, Noah