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Imagine a file, and then imagine that the steel is a cleaner version or at least a match for the best files you've ever used. it's that. But what it has nothing of is tolerance for heat, and it's abrasive wear life is similar to something like 1095 or a cast steel plane blade. so for turning, it'd need to be used on a low speed lathe.
it would make a great file, straight razor, knife or chisel, and it makes a very crisp plane iron. it grinds cooler than most of what's around for plane irons, but it definitely wouldn't tolerate high speed turning, just the same as can happen with turning tools made from old files.
it would make a great file, straight razor, knife or chisel, and it makes a very crisp plane iron. it grinds cooler than most of what's around for plane irons, but it definitely wouldn't tolerate high speed turning, just the same as can happen with turning tools made from old files.
