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   YesMaam27577 | Mar 22, 2009 11:55pm | #1

   Step one -- use a torch to unweld the carbide tips. Save them and find a scrap buyer. Carbide is VERY expensive.

   Step two -- shine them up real good, and put them on your christmas tree -- that's about all they're good for once you scrap the carbide.

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   kingwood | Mar 23, 2009 01:34am | #2

   I see no reason why you couldn't use them for scratch stock blades. Harry

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   DustyGeorge | Mar 23, 2009 01:56am | #3

   Harry,

   Would the steel in the blade be hard enough for a scratch ?  I've always used hack saw blades which are probably much harder than the steel in a circular saw blade.You don't stop laughing because you grow old.  You grow old because you stop laughing. - Michael Pritchard<!----><!----><!---->

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   kingwood | Mar 24, 2009 02:34am | #9

   I would think so and may need tempering.  Harry

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   flairwoodworks | Mar 23, 2009 01:57am | #4

   Aha! Especially the old steel blades without carbide tips, as I'd expect the steel to be of higher quality that tipped blades.Chris @ http://www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com(soon to be http://www.flairwoodworks.com)

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   nazard | Mar 23, 2009 02:25am | #5

   H,

   The sharpest bench knife I have ever used was cut from an old 10" blade.  An old geezer in our shop made it and kept it honed with a piece of oilstone he stored away in an old rag.  I might have to make one of those just for old time's sake.

   -Jerry 

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   flairwoodworks | Mar 23, 2009 06:44am | #6

   Jerry,Excellent idea! I have a whole stack of steel circular saw blades sitting around and am currently using jigsaw blades to make knives.Chris @ http://www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com(soon to be http://www.flairwoodworks.com)

    - Success is not the key to happiness.  Happiness is the key to success.  If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer

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   ring | Mar 23, 2009 10:43am | #7

   they make good wind chimes.

   David Ring

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   chaim | Mar 23, 2009 03:11pm | #8

   Now is the timw to hone your ninjitzu!

   Chaim

    

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   SawdustSteve | Mar 24, 2009 02:43am | #10

   Give to the trick-or-treaters. They can't eat them.

   Grind off the teeth and use the remaining plate as a sanding disk for your table-saw.

   Do I win the 'best idea' contest??

   SawdustSteve freezing on Long Island, NY where it got to a rip-roaring 34 degrees today

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   Ray | Mar 24, 2009 05:52pm | #11

   I've seen a lot of them in flea markets with pictures painted on them.  How are your art skills :-)

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   habilis | Mar 24, 2009 05:55pm | #12

   I have trouble drawing stick figures. Mechanical drawing I can do, but I can't think of anything any body would buy.

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   RalphBarker | Mar 24, 2009 08:32pm | #13

   You might contact a local painter's group to see if they are interested in buying the "blanks".

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   Napie | Mar 24, 2009 11:16pm | #14

   They really make great scrapers.

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   BrentD | Mar 24, 2009 11:46pm | #15

   Gongs for your backyard BB gun range?