saw plates old VS new

[David Weaver]

In the last test Rob is using a real Rc tester.

My quick little test obviously doesn't really proof much. It proofs mostly that I don't have very sensitive fingers.

Ahh, I missed that comment at the end. I'm not sure what it proves because I don't know if you hammer like rob hammers, or if your steel would still be easily fileable at any moderately increased hardness.

[Rob Streeper]

Ahh, I missed that comment at the end. I'm not sure what it proves because I don't know if you hammer like rob hammers, or if your steel would still be easily fileable at any moderately increased hardness.

David and Kees,

I purposely kept my hammering fairly light. If you look at the pictures I took of the back side of the test specimen of 1095 I posted on Woodwork Forums you can see quite clearly that the surface wasn't dented. However the distortion did extend all of the way through the plate, I wanted to show that and that's why I photographed the back side of the test sample. Heavier impact is a future study.