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Hello y'all and I hope the title makes sense.
My son and I have forged a lot of mild steel into blades. Horse shoes, rail road spikes and automobile suspension parts. We forge some good lookin blades and grind em into lookin real good! But they always rust out in weather and after use if not cleaned and oiled etc... And that's fine.
But we want to make a boat blade, to have on board or on person to cut rope and such.
I have a piece of stainless...(or so I was told). It's a rod about a yard long, bigger around than my thumb, female threaded on both ends a few inches in.
What do we need to do to forge that into a blade, grind it, and it maintain its stainless properties?
Sorry if my choice of words are incorrect, basically how do we finish this blade and it stay on a boat and be least likely to rust?
Thanks for any input! Sorry I don't know much about different types of steel and their properties or even how to word what I ask.
This has to be done soon. My son was gifted something very VERY special from a fisherman/lure maker in California and we just thought of this Idea to gift back and want our best shot at having good steel for life on a boat.
Thanks for any input!!!
My son and I have forged a lot of mild steel into blades. Horse shoes, rail road spikes and automobile suspension parts. We forge some good lookin blades and grind em into lookin real good! But they always rust out in weather and after use if not cleaned and oiled etc... And that's fine.
But we want to make a boat blade, to have on board or on person to cut rope and such.
I have a piece of stainless...(or so I was told). It's a rod about a yard long, bigger around than my thumb, female threaded on both ends a few inches in.
What do we need to do to forge that into a blade, grind it, and it maintain its stainless properties?
Sorry if my choice of words are incorrect, basically how do we finish this blade and it stay on a boat and be least likely to rust?
Thanks for any input! Sorry I don't know much about different types of steel and their properties or even how to word what I ask.
This has to be done soon. My son was gifted something very VERY special from a fisherman/lure maker in California and we just thought of this Idea to gift back and want our best shot at having good steel for life on a boat.
Thanks for any input!!!