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I have a friend in BC Canada who scored several band saw blades from a sawmill. He makes damascus from them by adding 52100 and the sawmill blades have so much nickel in them that they make great shiny layers in the blades. He figures he has 1080 with 2% nickel added to make the blades flexible. He says they are quite old, like from the 40s or 50s. That was a common practice back then for band saw sawmill blades. He says any sawmill band saw blade is good for a knife. A round 18" saw blade seems too small for a sawmill blade, sounds more like a big chop saw blade. I guess maybe they have small blades too in a sawmill?
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