03-17-2019, 03:36 PM
Thank you.
Rod, my design is based on the ones found at the Achaemenid military cemetery in Deve Huyuk, so they're pretty short -- I specified a blade of 21-23cm (8-1/4 to 9 inches). I suppose bending would be less likely at that length, but it's not impossible.
Ivor, the maker lists their high-carbon steel as 60C2, which contains manganese and up to 2 percent silicon, which I gather is quite high. No idea if they'd be willing to make the blade in high-carbon but not heat-treat it.
I have made a dagger and a knife with an angle grinder, but it's... unpleasant work, and frankly I don't mind paying someone else so I can avoid it (plus being back at school these days, I just don't have much time anymore).
Rod, my design is based on the ones found at the Achaemenid military cemetery in Deve Huyuk, so they're pretty short -- I specified a blade of 21-23cm (8-1/4 to 9 inches). I suppose bending would be less likely at that length, but it's not impossible.
Ivor, the maker lists their high-carbon steel as 60C2, which contains manganese and up to 2 percent silicon, which I gather is quite high. No idea if they'd be willing to make the blade in high-carbon but not heat-treat it.
I have made a dagger and a knife with an angle grinder, but it's... unpleasant work, and frankly I don't mind paying someone else so I can avoid it (plus being back at school these days, I just don't have much time anymore).
Dan D'Silva
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I ride the winds of fate
Prepared to go where my heart belongs,
Back to the past again.
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To pick myself up from under this table...
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Far beyond the rising sun
I ride the winds of fate
Prepared to go where my heart belongs,
Back to the past again.
-- Gamma Ray
Well, I'm tough, rough, ready and I'm able
To pick myself up from under this table...
-- Thin Lizzy
Join the Horde! - http://xerxesmillion.blogspot.com/
