Vent: Guy brought me a set of truck leaf springs and asked me to forge a sword out of them

Saturday morning, 9 AM, this dude rolls up to my shop with four rusty leaf springs from a 1998 F-150. Said he watched a YouTube video and figured it would be easy. I told him it would take a ton of work just to clean the delaminations and stress fractures, and he got all huffy. Anyone else deal with people who think junkyard steel is just waiting to become a katana?

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evan_stone18d ago

Leaf spring swords bend like wet noodles unless you normalize it three times.

riverhill18d ago

Three times seems a bit overkill honestly lol.