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Information and Resources => Trading Post => Topic started by: Prarie Bowyer on September 11, 2014, 04:34:51 pm

Title: Need metal banding 1" wide or thin tool sheet metal.
Post by: Prarie Bowyer on September 11, 2014, 04:34:51 pm: I'm making the old style broad heads with furrels. Gen 1 came out way too heavy.

I'm looking for thin wall 3/8" od tubing and some of the wide flat metal banding material. Anybody have access to this? It is probably free piled up on a pile of pallets somewhere.

just not close to me.
Title: Re: Need metal banding 1" wide or thin tool sheet metal.
Post by: Ed Brooks on September 11, 2014, 04:43:59 pm: Hi Prarie Bowyer. I have some band saw blade that is an inch wide after the teeth are removed. Makes great points. Ed
Title: Re: Need metal banding 1" wide or thin tool sheet metal.
Post by: ozarkokie on September 16, 2014, 01:51:54 am: I have found a good source to be places that sell very large truck tires. Often they have banding material that makes nice broadheads. I have several of these in my quiver. I like to make them single bevel tanto points after Dr. Ashby's research. These bands are just the right thickness for this point.
Title: Re: Need metal banding 1" wide or thin tool sheet metal.
Post by: Ed Brooks on September 17, 2014, 11:13:10 am: Blades are on the way. Ed
Title: Re: Need metal banding 1" wide or thin tool sheet metal.
Post by: Prarie Bowyer on September 19, 2014, 11:35:45 am: Recieved. Is that from a band mill ? that is a huge blade!
Title: Re: Need metal banding 1" wide or thin tool sheet metal.
Post by: Ed Brooks on September 19, 2014, 12:25:20 pm: Glad you got it. Yes that's from a mill and that's the little one they use lol. They make good points.
Im going to try a knife out of it. Let me know if you need any more. Have a great weekend. Ed
Title: Re: Need metal banding 1" wide or thin tool sheet metal.
Post by: sleek on September 24, 2014, 10:13:13 pm: How thick was that blade? I work as a cnc machinist and there are lots of saw blades broken about. 040 thick which seems thin to me, used for cutting metal.
Title: Re: Need metal banding 1" wide or thin tool sheet metal.
Post by: osage outlaw on September 24, 2014, 11:44:30 pm: Sleek, I use band saw blades that thin for trade points. The metal is thin but very tough. They cut stainless with them at work. I put the shaft of a nail behind the piont in a cane arrow to add weight.
Title: Re: Need metal banding 1" wide or thin tool sheet metal.
Post by: sleek on September 25, 2014, 05:05:54 pm: Awesome, do they harden well? Just had my boss give me a 12' one...
Title: Re: Need metal banding 1" wide or thin tool sheet metal.
Post by: Ed Brooks on September 25, 2014, 05:50:01 pm: Sleek I don't know who thick I. Thousands but I'd say about 1/16" thick. They make pretty nice points imho. As for hardening, I don't know much of anything there.
PS: I have more if anyone wants any. Ed
Title: Re: Need metal banding 1" wide or thin tool sheet metal.
Post by: Blaflair2 on September 29, 2014, 01:50:55 pm: If your just giving some away I'd take some O:)

Sleek, with it being a saw blade it is usually already hardened. I wouldn't fuss with it.
Title: Re: Need metal banding 1" wide or thin tool sheet metal.
Post by: Buck67 on September 30, 2014, 09:49:15 am: Have you looked at the metal bands on an old wooden water/whiskey barrel? They seem to be everywhere.
Title: Re: Need metal banding 1" wide or thin tool sheet metal.
Post by: Tyke on September 30, 2014, 06:46:05 pm: look at my cabinet scraper trade that stainless steel might be perfect for what you're looking for
Title: Re: Need metal banding 1" wide or thin tool sheet metal.
Post by: Ed Brooks on October 13, 2014, 12:24:56 pm: Quote from: Blaflair2 on September 29, 2014, 01:50:55 pm
If your just giving some away I'd take some O:)
Blafair2, I do like getting packages in the mail but if you need some of this blade and don't have antthing to trade that's ok too. What is your mailing address? I'll drop some in the mail. Ed