TravisM

Thanks Jono, I'll keep an eye out for railway spikes. I'll be up around Brisbane soon I might try to find some wrought souvenirs. Cheers Travis

Thanks mate I was happy how it turned out. It's fairly big 240mm x 57mm high

I probably should have put this in another section but here it is. Cheers

Yes I was very surprised how differently the wrought moved compared to the file steel. I'm certainly no expert but maybe w2? I've done lot of san mai before and I do everything flux free. My next billet will have 3.6mm 1084 core and see how that moves. This is the forged blade

Ripped into this wagon tyre today. I forged it from 20mm thick to 9mm. Cut it and cleaned up, the only high carbon steel I had around that thickness was an old worn out file so I used that as the core steel. I've used old files for kitchen knives before and I really like them as monosteel blades. It turned out to be a bad combo with the wrought, I've got way too much core left, hardly any wrought. I forged it almost all the way to shape just to keep the cladding where I need it but I'm guessing I'll grind through the a lot if the wrought layer. I'd be interested to know how other knife makers work with wrought. L

Thanks for the replies, so I took a punt and picked it up. Couldn't see any welds, it had a thick coat of paint over it, couldn't make out any grain until I got it home and gave it a sand back

So I've been chasing some wrought iron for san mai knives for a while, it's a bit hard to find here in Australia. I was looking to buy from overseas UK/US postage is pretty expensive. I got quoted £40 for 1 x wrought chain link £60 postage. So I started looking for wagon wheels here. I don't have a great knowledge of our steel making history in Australia. I don't know if we produced much wrought or imported it, any help would be appreciated. The asking price is $200aud 1.5m wheel

Awesome mate thanks for the info

Roughly how many rods did you go through?

That looks great! Good job. What thickness did you have to build up?

Thankyou very much for sharing your experiences, I guess I'll see if I can get the right rods and make a decision if it's worth fixing or not .

Thanks for your reply. Have you tried doing this before? How did you go about the anvil pre heat and post heat?

Good on you for fixing it. You made it whole again

Thanks for the detailed reply, your numbers are very exciting, I'd love to give your knives a go at my work. I've had a very chippy knife in aogami super, I bought it when I was an apprentice 64 rockwell I think. Some of the knives I've made lately been a bit too hard to sell to other chefs so I keep the rock hard ones my myself. I can see wootz in my near future, how viable is waste veg oil for firing a crucible melt thingo?

Beautiful looking knife. The profile looks great too. That's my go to handle shape in my chef knives. After forging what is your heat treating process? How do you find the performance of your steel? Edge retention and all that?