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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2007 1:40:27 GMT
In your opinion, what is the best kind of steel for a sword? I've been reading up on this subject, and i came across this article on Wikipedia ( here) while looking at the type of metal in some swords i was looking at buying( See Post) Has anyone heard much about this type of manufacturing? any help would be wonderful.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2007 3:28:06 GMT
I'm not a swordsmith or metallurgist, but I would think any decent carbon steel would be just fine. 5160 and 6150 have been used to great effect by some big name makers, and the plain vanilla 10xx series seem to do great as well (i.e. 1045-1095). L6 is probably great too. What I've read again and again over the last few years (and I tend to believe it) is that as long as you are using a suitable steel (like any mentioned above) the real deciding factor in blade quality is the heat treating process.
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Post by Dan Davis on Sept 26, 2007 23:35:09 GMT
It's not the steel, it's what you do with it. For instance, Hanwei uses a swedish-process powdered steel (SPS1) as the basis of their swords, but metallurgically speaking it is AISI 1095 steel. The SPS process simply allows for much finer control of dopant dispersion and therefore much higher uniformity of alloy characteristic. This in turn results in a much more predictable forging and heat treating process, with fewer failed blades: an absolute must when turning out hundreds of thousands of blades each year. One failure in a hundred blades will ruin you at Hanwei's rate of production.
I use about a dozen different steels in my shop, each for a different purpose.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2007 0:16:45 GMT
So powder steel = good? ;D From what i've been reading it seems so. That makes me feel a lot more comfortable spending $1400 on this
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