i have a bunch of these hacksaw blades. they were never used. they became obsolete at the machine shop i got them from. can they be used for knife blades doing stock removal? or are they useless? thanks. don

Kind of thin, but I bet they would make a good blade. .088 should be good for a filet knife.

thanks lin. thats great. i was thinking of doing one and leaving the teeth on the back. what would be an acceptable minimum thickness for a hunting type blade? lets say a small drop point?
                                     don

Don,
   You can make a small drop point from your blades. I bet it will be just fine. Anything bigger and you might want something 1/8 or even thicker. The unknown about this steel is the exact alloy and heat treat, but it can be done. Lin

To do stock removal you would have to anneal them or you would not have much luck with stock removal.If you have a belt grinder and go slow so as not to ruin the temper you could do it that way.  Like Lin said it could be a problem if they were annealed and then you had to try to heat treat them after the stock removal process.

milehi101, thats what i was thinking but wasn't sure. can these blades even be heat treated? what i was thinking was to do a pattern of the blade i want and cut it out using a dremel tool or some such tool. then i can use a bench grinder. is that possible? i do have a lot of them so i could try annealing and then heat treat. if it doesn't work i'm just out the time spent.
     don

Those blades can be heat treated, or they wouldn't make good saw blades to start with.
I appeal to others on the best method to anneal them and then re-heat treat them.
Don't forget to make yourself (and your wife) a good paring knife with it, the thin steel will make good kitchen / steak knives.
Dan