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Home made draw knive & push knife

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Kirkll:
glad you like em guys... i'm an old pack rat from way back, i scrounge materials where ever i can and love taking something that is headed for the dump, and transform it into something useful. i've had those planer blades for 20 years thinking they might come in handy. so i'm tickled with them. this is carbide steel too. you want to talk about hold an edge.... wow!   they do double as decent scrapers too.

i was working on a job 1100 miles from home this fall, and ran into a guy that was trying to cut stainless steel shower rods with the wrong saw... i showed him a few tricks, and got him going..... next thing you know he's going to town cutting these things and they were rolling off the bench now and then hitting the concrete floor......it kept getting my attention due to the different musical tones they were making.......Hmmmmm.....next thing I know he's got this big pile of 12" scraps he's going to throw away....so i asked if i could have them.....i boxed up 100 of these 1" tubes and shipped them home...... i am in the process of making Christmas presents out of this stuff.... they make the coolest wind chimes you can imagine..... so the whole family is getting wind chimes this year....

now that's what i call recycling. :D

medicinewheel:
Kirk, I love windchimes; post some pics!

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