What steel for knife blank?

[taberahkj]

I'm wanting to make some Chinese Cleaver knife blanks. I noticed a few threads where some people on here are making knife blanks. What steel do you recommend? Blade dimensions are 7"x3.5" not including the tang probably in 1/8" thickness. Any suggestions would be helpful.

[cgriffin224]

Most recently the ones we were cutting were out of O1 tool steel, but that was for straight edge razors...

[KIDTech]

1095 Carbon Steel .125" for 6" or less blades. A lot of people are turned away from plasma cutting blanks due to HAZ but you'll grind that 1/16" off sharpening the thing.

[abmetal]

We have a customer that brings in big circular saw blades and BIG band saw blades from a sawmill. He draws out the hardness by heating, makes the knives and reheats them hardening them again. And he sure makes some nice ones.

Allen

[taberahkj]

Thanks for the suggestions. I would ideally like to find some 4'x4' or larger sheets to play with then purchasing small blanks. I'll check with my steel supplier and see what's available.