kBob
Member
Last week I got my ZTR mower back from some serious reworking and as it was in the shop anyway had them change the blades. After loading the mower on my trailor I noticed a set of old blades laying next to where I was parked and commented on them to the mower repair guy. He scooped them up and announced he would make a few bucks on them as there was a local "knife maker" that dropped by once a month or so that looked through the pile of scrapped blades for starting material for his blades.
So what about using hard as rock lawn mower blades to make knives from? Can you cut them to shape and do stock removal without softening them first?
I had a buddy ages ago that got mad at me because I delievered oil to a saw mill that had a gigantic broken band saw blade piled next to where I made a delivery. When I commented that it was atlast out of the way as it had been sold as scrap (and that was the first he had heard of it) he became angry at me. Would not want a repeat on the mower blades I have changed over the years and just piled in the pump house ("What kind of people live here" name that film)
-kBob
So what about using hard as rock lawn mower blades to make knives from? Can you cut them to shape and do stock removal without softening them first?
I had a buddy ages ago that got mad at me because I delievered oil to a saw mill that had a gigantic broken band saw blade piled next to where I made a delivery. When I commented that it was atlast out of the way as it had been sold as scrap (and that was the first he had heard of it) he became angry at me. Would not want a repeat on the mower blades I have changed over the years and just piled in the pump house ("What kind of people live here" name that film)
-kBob