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RidgeRunner:
I like your new trade points.
The one with the long vertical slits the most.

What did you cut them out with?

Thanks
David

possum:
I used a Dremel with the new quick release reinforced fiber cut off wheels.

Thanks

possum

Shooter_G22:
yea,

   i would think that cutting and shaping is alot less work to get them closer to same size and shape then forging...   i havnt sparked up my carbon forge in a couple of yrs... i built an easy forge rig... its funny how i got to work.. but i just ussed an old dryer inside linner for for the pit to burn natural carbon coil.. i get from a ferrier supply,   and then i rigged up a blower motter from an old air mattress that had a hole in it so i cut out the moter... and then i used the alumunuim round luandry drie hose to the air moter to the bottom of the coal burning pit... and whalah a coal burning forge...lol...   it gets the steel sooo hot that it will melt a railroad spike if i leave it in there to long...   i use a piece of rail raod as my anvel and i'm forging steel...

but thanks for the explaination on the ratio... i didnt know what you were talking about... lol..

i was thinking of forging trade points from rebar i got lots of that at every jobsite... but i think im going to try and waite for a steel diamond blade i know we have to change them out every now and then from our quicky saw's or our brick/ block saw...   i think they our quicky saw carries a 14" diamond blade and our block saw takes a 20" diamond blade and i know they are expensive blade i think each one is over 125. to over 150 bucks at times... sooo i know we are going to change out 2 blades soon i need to call the forman on that job to see if he hasnt already changed them...

just wish i had a plasma cuter to cut the dang things then id be an arrow head making fool... :P

mullet:
  Shooter, I make mine out of Diamond blades. I cut them out with a hammer and chisel. The Dremel with the fibre blades work also.

Shooter_G22:
Hey Possum,

   I liked your trade points soooo much that i decided that i would  give it a go as soon as i could..  calles my field supervisor and asked if he knew of any forman taht would be changing blades soon...  he told me he thinks that the forman i was thinking about changed blades yesterday.. or at least he knows that he sent out new blades to his job yesterday im goint to have to call him and see if he threw the old ones away.. hope not... 

  but a little while ago i went over to the lowes to pick up a new tape measure for work cause i seem to have lost the one i had (fat max 35') gonna miss that tape had it over 2 1/2 yrs..
but i also picked up a thumb plane and a couple of 3/8" squar dowels to try the shaft making thing and then i ran or actually i was looking for some banding... and sure enough i come across two diferant types taht had been cut from there lumber area.. i talked to the guy there and he said to take it they just through it away anyways... so i came home all motovated to se if i could try aconstruct some trade points i know i read taht somebody use banding to make trade points and i thought id give it a go..
so with some tin snipes and a little force i was able to cut out some rough firld points to size i like and then a little hepl from my $30 band sander.. i got two points in a matter of minutes done... these are just a ruff design and prototype... i figured i'd try and get some something just a prototype just to do it so when i get a hold of some blades i could know more or less how i would want to cut them... but after i got these done and soo easily cut and sharpened i thought they might even be good enough to use and it didnt take me long at all.. and the steel is pretty rigid... i thought that it being from banding that it would flex and bend and the tips would be bending all over but the fact is that this banding materal is pretty stonge and took an edge fairly easily with minimal effort...  i liked them.. wonder if they would work.. anybody with experaince with this type of trade points???

i'll post  pics on this next reply...
oh by the way there is two types of banding the galvanized steel is wider and the black band steel is smaller..
galv. is at .032" thick and the black steel is at .030"  i dont have a scall to measure the grains i lent it out ot a reloader buddy of mine will try and get it back soon he is out of town for a couple of weeks...

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