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Overheard a guy at the scrapyard talking about rebar in blades
I was grabbing some coil spring stock yesterday and this older smith said he never uses rebar for knives because the tensile strength varies like crazy. He mentioned a buddy's blade snapped mid-use and sent a shard into his hand. Anyone else avoid rebar or do you just treat it special?
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victorhill22d ago
Yeah and that's assuming you even got the weld to hold right.
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jade_johnson22d ago
Buddy of mine tried it once. Used a piece from an old highway project. Snapped right at the tang during a hard cut test, flew across his shop and stuck in the drywall. His hand was bleeding pretty good, took three stitches.
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