![]() Handling a specially designed spike driving hammer is trickier than it may look - especially when seen in the (skilled!) hands of someone who does it all day, every day. * Believe me! I worked one summer in my early summer building rail track switches for Canadian Pacific RR out of Thunder Bay. At that price, 'saving' the small price of brand tool steel bar stock, (at roughly $3 - $5) honestly just does not make any sense.ĭo check my general information on custom bladesmithing: The more elaborate (higher skill and attention to detail) versions run into the $100 - $200 (US) range however. This may be a consideration for the cheapest / simplest (usually also least skill employed) versions. Or more likely - it is because rail spikes are easily picked up along the tracks for free. Taken all together, the only reason I can envision for using a rail spike as starting material for a blade may be the knob of the original spike's head. It does make me wonder why anyone would put so much time andĮffort - into what is an inferior material? Of course this is the part of the metal spike being forged into the blade itself. ![]() The body of the spike would certainly be cushioned by the surrounding wooden tie. Certainly this must produce considerable shock / stress into the same area (joint of head to shaft. Which is repeatedly pounded by passing trains.
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