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First Shirt wrote:Get a rough idea of shipping costs, and let me know what you need (type as well as amount), since my SIL makes custom knives for a living (and must be doing pretty well, he's got a six-month backlog), and he probably has some of what you need, or can get it cheap, if we can beat the local price (cost+shipping), we gotcha covered!
Cheers bro !
I'll try and figure out the shipping cost somehow, that's the main issue. There is a knifemaking supplier in Germany who has some of the steels I'd like to use but they insist on me buying them by weight ( do you know how much a 6mm x 30mm x 500mm bar of 5160 weighs ? no ? me neither ) and I just refuse to deal with anyone who makes purchasing that difficult. No wonder my Dad spent his formative years firing 155mm shells at them
All my life I been in the dog house
I guess that just where I belong
That just the way the dice roll
Do my dog house song
Aglifter wrote:Hmm... So much for the days of "Toledo Steel" I suppose.
What if you stopped thinking "knife steel", and started thinking "industrial steel"?
That actually was my first option, the knife supply folks are obviously just buying from industrial sources and adding their own markup to the price ( which I don't blame them for one bit, capitalism is good )
But I drew a blank, it's hard to search for stuff here because the internet really hasn't caught on in the same way as in most other countries.
Ironically the nearest town to me is a major furniture making centre and it is possible to buy any kind of woodworking tools you can imagine ( assuming you can afford them, a reasonable sized floor standing belt sander will set you back about $5k )
Maybe I should make wooden knives
All my life I been in the dog house
I guess that just where I belong
That just the way the dice roll
Do my dog house song
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from this 6mm is roughly .250 inch, 1 1/4 inch is roughly 30 mm, and a foot of that weighs in at about 1.05 lbs
so your stock should be roughly 1.75 lbs or .78 kilos
now go and order from the Germans.
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Rough weights of common engineering metals:
Steel: .28 lbs/CI
Aluminum: .1lb/CI
Brass: .32lb CI
I can tell you from personal experience that selling by the pound is pretty standard - I know Davidson(before they went under) and Admiral did it that way, for phone quotes.
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