I needed to find some high carbon steel to cut some shapes and one thing led to another. It turns out that old sawmill blades are a good source of high carbon steel, so I found one. Then it occurred to me that it wouldn’t do just to use the blade as source material; why not cut shapes out in an interesting manner so that the source would become art?
The result was this:
The originally intended product consists of high carbon steel snowflakes:
They’re ideal as Christmas tree ornaments, and if you carefully grind sharp knife edges on them and polish them up, they’ll look even sharper. But they should never be confused with Ninja shuriken throwing stars.
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7 responses to “Mutant carbon saw snowflakes”
One Ninja’s pretty snowflake ornament of death is another Ninja’s shuriken.
Way back a long time ago I knew a guy who made bowie knives out of old high carbon saw blades. His wife was heavy into Ouija. I had a lot of fun with her and that Ouija Board.
Water saw or plasma?
Hypertherm plasma cutter with a Burny 10 LCD controller.
It made much cleaner cuts in this (approximately 5/32″ think) high carbon steel than it typically does with 14 gauge low carbon steel.
Umm, maybe they shouldn’t be confused, but I must confess if I saw one of THOSE coming at me, I’d be very impressed (and diving for cover). OTOH, I think they throw slow enough that I COULD dive for cover…
“Hypertherm plasma cutter with a Burny 10 LCD controller”
You have this setup in your basement?
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