I have considered gun bluing but I want it to have that natural bright steel look

Sounds like learning experiences to me 🤷🏿

@EnderOctanus nickel plating maybe?

cool

I don't have the know-how or supplies to do much.

The metal is amazing though I wish I knew the manufacturer so I coild get the details on the steel they used. Flexible but so hard, never seen anything like it

lithium blade

pew pew

sound like something you make leaf springs out of

Hm

I mean I literally cannot get a drill through it to fasten the new handle

turtwife's grandpa has an armory of antique firearms

Used the hardest cobalt drill I could buy

cool

sounds like spring steel. flexible but hard as coffin nails

Yeah I have an old broken Belgian double barrel

Who knows where my family got it

But yeah that steel gives ,e so much grief.

diamond tip

Broke it

really?

Yeah even lubricated

Took the diamond right off

try with your teeth

the ones in the back

Thing only drills wood and brick now lmao

some of the best spring steel is insane hard. it made to withstand the abuse of what ever you throw at it and just flex right back to it original shape

Yes that is this machete alright

I don't think it can break. But it sure can rust

I wanted tp use brass fasteners, but now it lookslike I have to usethe old rivet holes that vary in size. So I will jave to actually rivet the damn thing. I don't want to make rivets out of brass though for obvious reasons. I would be doing this by hand without an anvil.

Getting the old rivets out was hard, too, had to drill one out because it was practically attached to the blade. No welds though

Its just so hard, and takes so much time to make any progress that, by the time you manage to do anything, the damn thing has rusted again just by existing, despite numerous coatings of oil.

If I had an anvil things would be smoother.

I have to use bricks instead, which has obvious problems.

Maybe with this job, if I get it, I can buy a little block of railroad track as a DIY anvil.

Thanks Ender btw I'm probs going to Prison cus you talk alot about your knife.

Grandfather was a silversmith and a watchmaker before he became a useless alcoholic.

water jet cutter

would probably do it

Yeah uh

Try not living in a police state Broo