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aybesee123 | 02-15-2010 02:36 PM
How to make a Railroad Spike knife Awesome: <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_6yiBqgzrJM&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_6yiBqgzrJM&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

Professur | 02-15-2010 02:42 PM
Re: How to make a Railroad Spike knife No eye protection. Moron.

Conk | 02-19-2010 07:13 PM
Re: How to make a Railroad Spike knife Way cool. Wonder how long it takes to make one?

TheNocturnalEgyptian | 02-19-2010 08:41 PM
Re: How to make a Railroad Spike knife Professur is right - you should wear eye protection - but other than that, this is awesome.

Goldhedge | 02-19-2010 08:53 PM
Re: How to make a Railroad Spike knife I think the music is by Alasdair Fraser What's so special about RR spike steel? Hardened? Carbon content?

eat_beef | 02-19-2010 09:05 PM
Re: How to make a Railroad Spike knife High iron content.

scholarcoon | 02-20-2010 08:50 PM
Re: How to make a Railroad Spike knife Buddy of mine makes them out of rebar.

Goldfinger | 02-20-2010 09:13 PM
Re: How to make a Railroad Spike knife Now that's pretty freaking cool!:coolbeer:

Ag_man | 02-20-2010 09:16 PM
Re: How to make a Railroad Spike knife Quote:
Originally Posted by Goldhedge (Post 2189275) I think the music is by Alasdair Fraser What's so special about RR spike steel? Hardened? Carbon content?
Nothing special, not hardened, usually about ~ 0.50 carbon content, medium alloy content (Cr, Mn, etc). It already is in a convenient form for knifemaking, saves time in forming a bloom. I melted many 100's of tons of spikes and plates back in the 1980's. Good stuff.

wildcard | 02-20-2010 10:03 PM
Re: How to make a Railroad Spike knife These guys didn't wear eye protection. I don't think they were morons. (matter of fact I probably wouldn't have dared call 'em one to their face either) You Tube
You Tube
*it's all that namby pamby for the children crap with rules and fines to enforce it that has killed our manufacturing base in the U.S.A.

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