Z wear laminate

[HSC /// Knives]

another attempt -
it's not perfect but it's progress,
Z wear and wrought iron laminate
has some delamination but the best success so far,
I'll keep trying

 

[Dc2123]

Oooh that’s nice. How long is it? Is this one available?

 

[HSC /// Knives]

Oooh that’s nice. How long is it? Is this one available?

210 mm

 

[captaincaed]

That's a very cool look. I bet that's a good worker and much nicer to thin than solid z wear

 

[Slim278]

I dont mind the deamination so much, looks kinda rustic with the iron. What would concern me, is that the lamination looks like it goes all the way to the cutting edge in a couple places. Have you found this to effect edge stability?

 

[HSC /// Knives]

I dont mind the deamination so much, looks kinda rustic with the iron. What would concern me, is that the lamination looks like it goes all the way to the cutting edge in a couple places. Have you found this to effect edge stability?

from a functionality point of view, the delam is a bigger concern, the material can actually peel away...
but no, I'm not concerned about edge stability if the lamination has an appearance of coming down to the edge, it doesn't necessarily mean there is no hardened core available at the edge.

 

[HSC /// Knives]

That's a very cool look. I bet that's a good worker and much nicer to thin than solid z wear

indeed, and all around there are several advantages to Z wear being laminated

 

[marc4pt0]

Got any gyutos like this in the works? Looks really nice. Bet that wasn't easy though

 

[HSC /// Knives]

Got any gyutos like this in the works? Looks really nice. Bet that wasn't easy though

Not yet. When I started this project I did some large billets....now I have realized I need to just make smaller knives to get started. Larger ones will come when I feel like I have some success.

you do a large billet and it’s a fail and all you’ve done is lost more time and materials

 

[captaincaed]

Are you working with a press or just a power hammer?

 

[HSC /// Knives]

I actually don’t have my own press or power hammer

this was done at another bladeSmith shop and he has a 16 ton press that we did this on.

 

[madelinez]

Are there any challenges with heat treating this combination of materials? I see a lot of high alloy PM steels cladded with relatively hard stainless steels due to problems when heat treating.

 

[HSC /// Knives]

Are there any challenges with heat treating this combination of materials? I see a lot of high alloy PM steels cladded with relatively hard stainless steels due to problems when heat treating.

No not for with iron, as i heat treat for just the core. Wrought iron is able to take higher temperatures then z wear so remains soft

I did have trouble when I tried using stainless as a cladding which didn’t really work well

The Austentize temperature of 410 stainless is lower than that of the 2000° for Z wear. So the stainless hardens and gets cooked

note that I’m no expert at laminating steel , I’m just motivated to try to make this work

 

[madelinez]

It's going to be a unique combination when you perfect it. Good luck!