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Yesterday I helped a friend install a Log Wizard on a Stihl chain saw and we used an old bar for the project. A log Wizard is
a small planer mounted on the front of a chain saw. This morning the front end of the bar was laying left over in the shop
so I decided to try make something out of it. It was an old spot welded Stihl blade and the metal looked like it might be usable
for maybe a knife or something, maybe several knives. Now, I'm no knife maker so it's all new territory to me. I chiseled the
welds apart and drilled out the rivets to get to something that could be a blade. I think it must be some type of chromium steel or
similar by the sparks and the way it was to cut. It was some pretty hard material and I ended up cutting it with a thin cutoff blade
in my 4.5 inch angle grinder. My first task was to try to get a good sharp edge and that proved to be quite difficult and took a lot of
hand work to get there. I used files and several diamond hones in the process as well as a flap wheel on the angle grinder.
I really don't know how this will turn out but at least I will give it a valiant try. Maybe if times get tough, I will have to do some deer
hunting come fall.
I'm not sure what I will do for a handle, maybe the deer bone in the photo. I will likely have to weld on some more metal to
affix a handle.
Hopefully it will turn into something half way decent deserving of another photo after I get done with it. Thanks for reading along and have a
good day.
a small planer mounted on the front of a chain saw. This morning the front end of the bar was laying left over in the shop
so I decided to try make something out of it. It was an old spot welded Stihl blade and the metal looked like it might be usable
for maybe a knife or something, maybe several knives. Now, I'm no knife maker so it's all new territory to me. I chiseled the
welds apart and drilled out the rivets to get to something that could be a blade. I think it must be some type of chromium steel or
similar by the sparks and the way it was to cut. It was some pretty hard material and I ended up cutting it with a thin cutoff blade
in my 4.5 inch angle grinder. My first task was to try to get a good sharp edge and that proved to be quite difficult and took a lot of
hand work to get there. I used files and several diamond hones in the process as well as a flap wheel on the angle grinder.
I really don't know how this will turn out but at least I will give it a valiant try. Maybe if times get tough, I will have to do some deer
hunting come fall.
I'm not sure what I will do for a handle, maybe the deer bone in the photo. I will likely have to weld on some more metal to
affix a handle.
Hopefully it will turn into something half way decent deserving of another photo after I get done with it. Thanks for reading along and have a
good day.
