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Thread: Mystery steel - any guesses
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19th January 2023, 09:00 PM #1Most Valued Member
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Mystery steel - any guesses
I’ve got a couple of bits of steel bar here - approx 30mm square and 300 long.
They appear to be hand forged, and one has a basic chisel shape on one end that looks as though half of it has broken off.
I was expecting them to be just a normal carbon steel, but when I put them on the linisher there’s virtually no spark - just some faint red ones and no furry bits at the ends.
They’re not quite file hard, but if you tap a corner with a lump hammer it marks the face of the hammer.
They came from an old engineering workshop - potentially from as far back as the 60’s.
The only identifying mark is this stamped “C” on one of them.
Nothing in the chisel shaped one.
Any thoughts?
Steve
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