My new creation

[MarineScott]

I do junk art as a hobby, this is my latest. I do have a page on facebook, called "Yesterday's Junk". You can see what I have made there.

 

[sonny580]

a friend of mine makes this and that just for the heck of it ----- I never could bring myself to do it! lol! --- bout gotta have a motor or tracks on it before I can get interested in it!
Looks like you do great work!

 

[A-one]

I just don't have the imagination for art. I just barely get by with the projects that I feel like I have a use for.

 

[Gary Fowler]

I do junk art as a hobby, this is my latest. I do have a page on facebook, called "Yesterday's Junk". You can see what I have made there.

If it is made of steel, I can copy it but I dont have the imagination to design "art". Good job, I admire your talent.

 

[MarineScott]

If it is made of steel, I can copy it but I dont have the imagination to design "art". Good job, I admire your talent.

Thank you. Some things just pop into my head, and I will make it. Only in the last 10 years, I could do this.

 

[MarineScott]

a friend of mine makes this and that just for the heck of it ----- I never could bring myself to do it! lol! --- bout gotta have a motor or tracks on it before I can get interested in it!
Looks like you do great work!

Thank you.

 

[PILOON]

Yep, junk art is fun.
And it is sellable as well.
Shovels, rakes old horse shoes are all nice stock to have on hand.

 

[Bearskinner]

I just picked up a bucket full of large wrenches, and a stack of old circular saw blades. Should be able to get something done with these

 

[MarineScott]

I just picked up a bucket full of large wrenches, and a stack of old circular saw blades. Should be able to get something done with these

Get cooking with your cranium. Look at my Facebook page Yesterday's Junk. Copy and improve what I got.

 

[Bearskinner]

I don’t Facebook. I just won’t support what I don’t believe in

 

[Gary Fowler]

I just picked up a bucket full of large wrenches, and a stack of old circular saw blades. Should be able to get something done with these

I make knife blades out of circular saw blades.

 

[MarineScott]

I make knife blades out of circular saw blades.

How is the hardness? Heard of doing this.

 

[Bearskinner]

I have a couple light bendable blades made from a large band saw blade. They hold a good edge and are flexible

 

[Gary Fowler]

How is the hardness? Heard of doing this.

They are really hard and if you dont overheat the metal when cutting out the shape, they dont require re-hardening. I do keep a bucket of oil around just in case I need to reharden. Just heat up the edge red hot and dip it. Leave the spine of the blade unhardened for flexibility.

 

[Gary Fowler]

I have a big concrete saw blade that I will eventually use up making blades. I just have to be in a creative mood to work on knives though.

 

[MarineScott]

They are really hard and if you dont overheat the metal when cutting out the shape, they dont require re-hardening. I do keep a bucket of oil around just in case I need to reharden. Just heat up the edge red hot and dip it. Leave the spine of the blade unhardened for flexibility.

I have seen where some become brittle.

 

[Gary Fowler]

I have seen where some become brittle.

Those are likely to ones that were heat treated after shaping. The metal is already high carbon and hardened, any additional hardening will be too hard and easily break. Test it with a file to see how hard it is before heat treating it again.

 

[PILOON]

Back when I was in the reserves we had lots of down time.
I used the Gov't bench grinders to shape a nice hunting knife from a large file.
Still have it and that cutting edge is so good that I can shave any time.
On a hunt we quartered and skinned a large moose and never needed to hone that blade as it kept such a fine edge.
(leather is a killer on cutting edges)
60 years ago and I still have and use it often.

Another good source of blade steel is those large power hacksaw blades.
I've made great scrapers and utility blades from them.

 

[Bearskinner]

There’s quite s few Ferrier’s/ blacksmiths around here that make knives and tools from old farm machinery, vehicle leaf springs, etc then fix antler and bone as handle material.

 

[AKoz]

Very clever and imaginative. I lean toward the utilitarian so I am impressed when I see someone's artistic vision.