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I use car springs to make tools for my shop but yeah, if I were making blades for sale I'd probably start with the good stuff.

• hef19898 4y ago
  Not that used car springs are bad material wise so. I'm just way to lazy to spend hours hammering into a bar-like shape before I start hammering into the shape I want. Much simpler to start with a proper bar from the beginning. I know a guy who starts usually with a spiral screw for his blades, and those blades are beautiful. Not that I'm representative, I made a couple of blades out of Japanese multi-layer steel. And do have some rather expensive Japanese multi-layer steel bars laying around for later, one in a proper Katana-like structure with an iron back and one with 22 layers of chrom-stainless steel with a middle layer of paper steel, both around 8mm thick. They cost a factor 4 more than the ordinary spring steel I mentioned earlier. But since I don't have the time, nor the skill, to make those raw multi-layer bars myself I bought them for my tries at Katana-like blades. One day that is, I planned my first sword to be done in early 2020 and still didn't get started...