Hellfire
Ex Member
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I took a 3/8" piece of telephone cable (got it legally, a buddy gave me a ten foot seciton of it), and then cut out a 5" piece. Hammered it flat, kept flipping it over, got a little clip point on it. The trick is to pound it enough not for it to crack, or else you have to anneal it, but to pound it enough for it to be hard. Then, I took a small claw hammer and hammered just the edge. No sharpening, just filed off the corrosion. In effect, it is a bi-metal blade, some fairly ductile copper in the middle and well worked harder copped on the edges. I tried posting pics of it "in the making", but my hard drive crashed and I lost all the pics. Will try to show the method though. Its kind of fun. I tried doing the same thing with a piece of re-bar but I need a heavier hammer.
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