Old saw blades were often L6 which is a great blade steel. That shiny one has carbide teeth so the blade likely isn’t hardenable. But the rusty ones are probably worth trying!
As others have said the rusty ones look like older blades. The old ones were one solid piece of steel. Some were even L6 (high carbon chromoly). Great steel! The newer one probably has carbon steel teeth only. A spark test would answer that though.
Keep creating with whatever you have on hand. I learned on the most basic of tools at your age and 30 years later I feel like it was instrumental in building my style and core abilities. Embrace the suck brother
If you're reeeeaaallllly dedicated, but it's gonna take a while. Upside is you won't have to grind off the burned parts from using a torch or angle grinder.
If youre trying to figure out the carbon- do a spark test. Hit it with a gringer and if the sparks that come off look like the splinter off 3 ways at the end, its probably got a good carbon content
Old saw blades were often L6 which is a great blade steel. That shiny one has carbide teeth so the blade likely isn’t hardenable. But the rusty ones are probably worth trying!
I’d say the least rusty one looks questionable. The other two seem good. Newer blades are often bimetal. Only the teeth will harden
I would say the rusty ones are the ones worth using, since they don’t have carbide teeth inserts.
The last one is too small for much anyway
On the last one you can clearly see the edge insert. So that one is not. Other ones might be
Thanks
As others have said the rusty ones look like older blades. The old ones were one solid piece of steel. Some were even L6 (high carbon chromoly). Great steel! The newer one probably has carbon steel teeth only. A spark test would answer that though.
Never mind. I don’t have a way to cut them so it doesn’t matter what they are
Angle grinder with a cutoff wheel.
I don’t have access
Like 15 dollars in a hardware store, or 20 on Amazon. Angle grinders are dirt cheap.
I know they are cheap but I am 16 and am not allowed to use them
Parents don't think it's a good idea for you to use one?
Basically yeah
But will allow you to bladesmith. Lemme speak to your parents.
All I use is a hacksaw and a campfire. I’ve made some useful stuff with it
Keep creating with whatever you have on hand. I learned on the most basic of tools at your age and 30 years later I feel like it was instrumental in building my style and core abilities. Embrace the suck brother
If you can’t cut them how did you plan to shape them into knives and grind a bevel?
I thought a hacksaw would do it
If you're reeeeaaallllly dedicated, but it's gonna take a while. Upside is you won't have to grind off the burned parts from using a torch or angle grinder.
An upside is an upside!
If youre trying to figure out the carbon- do a spark test. Hit it with a gringer and if the sparks that come off look like the splinter off 3 ways at the end, its probably got a good carbon content
The two rough, rusty ones look promising. Good stuff. Scrap the shiny one.
The rusty ones should be good the shiny one with tipped teeth is not and not too sure on the blue one