Thread 64120601

I do remodel work. I get to keep anything I find useful during trash removal.

can I turn a junk quality, made in Chy-na, bent "stainless" blade, missing the handle and factory blunted to keep autistic, Manga collecting, 40yo, basement dwelling, neckbeards from cutting mummie's drapes when cosplaying ninja vs Deadpool.... into something I can use?

the blade is bent. it needs a handle. it cannot cut room temperature butter.

me: tradeworker, farmer, rancher. housewife and I are both EDC 2nd-A. we do NOT bring swords to gunfights. she already has 3 machetes I have found a jobsites; 1 under clawfoot, 1 under her side of bed, 1 in pantry by back door. she has pistols stashed everywhere, a .223 AR in the pantry and a .22 by the front door.

I wanted to cut, rout, form, sand & stain a new handle for it. we heat our home with wood, so I have tons of wood species to choose from: Oak, mesquite, mulberry, peach, pear, burning bush, elm, pine, cedar, and many random others I have collected, but do not know variety.

is it worth the effort? could it be grinder sharpened to establish and edge, then filed & polished to carry a farm-functional edge? is the bend a show-stopper for brutal & negligent use, such as overgrowth? is it equal to or worse than her machetes and aluminum baseball bats? maybe a designated, garage accessable, quick-grab defense tool? what aboot shortening the blade for improved strength and durability?

is this thing total junk & a waste of time? throw away?

>>64120601 (OP)
Throw it away.

The metal that thing is made of is going to be way too soft to really worth with in any meaningful way. You can see the basement dweller already bent the whole thing smacking it against a cardboard box or something. No sharpening is going to fix that. Try to straighten it and it'll either bend again or crack and break in the middle.

It might not even be steel but some cast pot metal.

>>64120601 (OP)
The metal quality is probably trash, I don't know much about stainless steel but there are probably some tests you can do to see if it can be hardened to anything useful before you waste too much time

>>64120629
What is there to test? It is already bent, probably by some DYEL weeb.

"euro manchild making weapons in his parents' garage" thread

>>64120601 (OP)
No, throw it away. Wall hangers are made of mystery meat pot metal. They cannot keep an edge, but more importantly they are absolutely not safe to be swinging around. That thing is liable to shatter and hurt someone.
Good steel isn't that expensive for most purposes. If you're really a cheap fuck, high carbon scrap steel is almost free.

Also the entire idea of a machete or mall ninja sword as a "defense" weapon is ultra retarded. Please just use a firearm.

>t. blacksmith

>>64120640
post swords

>>64120601 (OP)
Figure out roughly what it is with a grinder, see what kind of sparks come off will give you a better idea. They make those things out of all kinds of weird shit so chances are its some kind of junk, but you never know. Someone might have made it out of a lump of unhardened mid-carbon steel
Probably more by accident than design, but you never know

>>64120634
A lot of wall hangers were never heat treated, you can test if it's a metal that can be heat treated

>>64120643
I post some of my stuff online and I don't want to doxx myself but I can post anvil when I get home from work

>>64120601 (OP)
Just turn it into a buttscratcher.

>>64120731
So you're one of those super-insecure guys, gotcha

good luck with your youtube channel or whatever tho lmao

As others said, it's some unknown useless pot metal, there's basically nothing useful you can do without knowing what kind of metal it is and figuring it out would cost more than just buying a real sword.

Your best bet for restoration would be to straighten it back out, make a replacement handle, and hang it up on the wall like its original purpose.

>>64120601 (OP)
I would straighten it, sharpen and check if it doesn't chip while cutting some fresh brunches - and if it doesn't bent while chopping (in vain..) thicker trees. If it survives the test then you can make a proper - secure! - handle.
Lots of historical swords had very shady and poor quality steels and were still perfectly usable weapons. If the blade - and the handle - survives the impact against some 2 inches thick sapling then you are good to go.

>>64120797

please tell me a your story of when your "confidence" saved your life, wife or property.

here, I'll go first:
2023, wife called me at 5:00am while out on farm chores. the barn light was on, and someone was moving inside. I was about 200yds away on my own chores, always armed. she and I, together, flung open the door, and caught José trying to steal our old, spare, beater farm truck.

Jose panicked, grabbed a pitchfork and started towards us, yelling gibberish. wife fired 2x I fired 1x. we do not know who's shots landed. 2/3 on target. no charges filed, never even detained.

my wife IS my life. together WE protected our property and now YOU don't have to worry about José rummaging through your car parked at your 650sqft high-rise flat.

you're welcome.

>>64120601 (OP)
Is this one of your "finds" or is your EDC normally this crusty and prone to falling out of the holster?

>>64120601 (OP)
Rage bait bot. This shit is why /k/ doesn't bother posting cool shit as much anymore.

>>64120797
Rage bait bot. This shit is why /k/ doesn't bother posting cool shit as much anymore.

>>64120942
There isno fucking way you're op. It's too retarded.

>>64120601 (OP)
Stainless steel is both soft and brittle. The only reason its used for cook/dining ware is because its non reactive, which is a really great thing but that means its no good for any kind of hard impact use, in many applications even anodized aluminum is tougher https://youtu.be/m47NiCAfLLg?si=C6l6VmYfkThtT_ze

>>64121016
Bro I how long since that was cleaned? My LCP max didn't get that bad after I let it go for 6 months one time with every day pocket carry

>>64121016

fair enough.

as an ACTUAL EDC, it it with me wherever and whatever I am into. farming, ranching & tradework are all dirty. bits of insulation, drywall, wool, bits of turds, alfalfa & sometimes even water are common encounters. weekly maintenance & cleaning are just part of active EDC protocol. since I am currently AT WORK I am not currently cleaning my pistol. I assure you, a bit of lint on the outside of the frame is not going have any negative effect.

>>64120601 (OP)
Sell all that dogshit and get a gen 3 g19

>>64121069
size matters.

too boo-coo

I crawl around in confined spaces, sliding along, under & over all sorts of shit. I need low profile, lightweight so as not to constantly hang on everything. I use a LH draw IWB kydex carried in the small of my back, for right hand draw.

glock is too big. I intentionally EDC the smallest *effective* caliber I can. we are more standard to 9mm, 40 & 45 around the farm, around the house, in her purse, and on her person. she carries a 9mm kimber ultra-compact... her's is bigger than mine.

>>64120640
>mystery meat pot metal
I'll have you know that ~36 million Chinamen starved to death for that fine pig iron made during the Great Leap Forward.
It's finest Chinesium.

>>64121127
He's just a spammer who tells everyone to get a 3rd gen G19 and an 11.5" PSA pistol.

>>64121196

I have never understood the mindset of carrying a fucking Hog Leg on your hip. it's uncomfortable, restrictive, hangs, and over the course of a day/week/month/year(s) dragging a 3lb pistol with a 5lb magazine around everywhere you go makes no sense. they don't conceal well, making you a mark for any potential *planning* aggressors. trying to conceal the the Dirty Harry is ineffective, at best, and can render access impractical when critical seconds count.

>>64120601 (OP)
No, it is garbaggio. More than that, it is a danger to innocent people around you, if you ever try to turn it into something "useful".
Maybe you could turn it into some post-modern art and leave it besides the trash can at the nearest Art Galery for a quick laugh, but that is pretty much it.

>>64121066
you're like a woman, posting the gun for attention. The fact that it was in one picture and not in the other one shows you deliberately placed it there for the picture, which I suppose is still preferable to you just casually leaving guns around. Back to you being a gayass ladyboy though, did you want someone to slap you around while you call them daddy? Because you can just hire someone for that, you don't have to post here.

>>64120601 (OP)
ok, ignoring the rest of the bullshit in the thread.

Its already bent, and its "stainless" - which in the vast majority of cases is no-where near good enough alloys to be viable as a blade. Stainlesses are rarely edge-holding, and are often more brittle than carbon steels. while the bend is a good sign that its not one of the overly brittle alloys, it is a bad sign that the blade is not viable for use.

As such I would not recommend that you make anything out of this blade and especially not to try to sharpen and use it. that's an accident waiting to happen. Its blunt for a reason.
its kind of on par with discovering that a pot-metal cast starter pistol for blanks can be drilled out and take a .22lr/9mm/.45 cartridge. Sure, you can probably turn it into a functioning gun, but you'd have to be an utter idiot to try and fire it in your hand.

but I would not dissuade you from following your idea to make a hilt, solely for the crafts enjoyment of making a hilt. Its a perfectly good base to work from for learning some of the craft skills, and the only cost is your time. And if you do that, then, try doing the same with some of that mulberry, or pear to one of the machetes, get yourself some Indasa rhynowet sandpaper, and polish the blade on the machete up to 1200 grit, and make a really good looking hilt on it. or go shopping around and look for a proper bare blade (as in, carbon steel, 1080, 1095, 5160, or even tamahagane if katanas are your thing) to apply your skills to. Eventually, you might find yourself making knives with your own blade, for the love of the craft. We all start somewhere, and plenty of knifemakers and bladesmiths start with a junk sword like that, just experimenting with making a hilt.

for that purpose its great. But please, dont risk sharpening it.

>>64120601 (OP)
Flatten it first.

>>64120601 (OP)
The most useful thing you can do with that is home defense.
>keep it somewhere handy
>if someone breaks in
>do the usual "ain't nothing worth di'in for in here sonny"
>if they still haven't left, give them the sword
>you now have a reasonable cause to mag dump into the rapscallion.

>>64120601 (OP)
Melt it to make a new steel target, that's what it's worth for real

>>64120601 (OP)
Buddy that's a lot of shade being thrown by a guy wanting to make a "tool" from some weeb's hand me down wall hanger

>>64120645
That's a cool chart anon, I'll be using that.

>>64120601 (OP)
that's a lot of shit I'm not reading.

No it can't be made into a functional tool. Stainless steel swords are all worthless wallhangers. Universally. Stainless steels are not suitable for the task.

>>64120601 (OP)
TL;DR just get a Katana that's NOT made of flaky pot metal. If you wanna turn that thing into something actually useful then make it into a dozen smaller kitchen knives.
/K/ult of athena has some good filters to sort out wall hangers from swords an machetes you could actually go to war with (and then get shot unless your in a noguns country like the UK).

Also side note I find it funny that the majority of actually good Katana's made that don't shatter on impact (that you can actually buy) come from the Philippines and El Salvador. The former is especially amusing given Pinoy's also make pretty decent 1911's too.

>>64122944
More than likely its some kind of stainless like a 304 or 430 type as they're generally cheap and fairly tough but can't really be hardened conventionally with heat treatments. A magnet will also tell you if its some kind of 300 steel as it won't stick or be very weak, but generally spark tests are a bit more reliable if you've got a bit of experience there

>>64123123
>Philippines
Lot of those places held onto their craftsmen, like out here in the western world we had most of the mass produced, hand made cutlery and firearm industries dead by about the 1980's and just said fuck it, let the robots do it or outsourced the whole lot to various places that didn't have the higher tech industries that let you shove sheets of metal in one end and knives came out the other end. Essentially happened to a whole lot of metalworking and finishing industries as well, places with western, livable wages just didn't make products cheap enough for the mass markets that were not prepared to pay more than $10-30 for a kitchen or pocket knife.
Which is a real pity in a lot of ways