Not actually with the saw but I did just find a new use for old(or in this situation new but tore up) chains.
I cut two sections of chain and forge welded them to a piece of 1080 steel just to see what it would look like. My goal was a servicable knife that you could actually see the chain in. I have made blades by forge welding up a billet out of chain but the final product, although cool, resembles nothing of the original chain. Once polished and etched the chain should really pop on this one. It was just an experiment but it turned out really solid and I think with a few tweaks I could really turn of a decent blade that has the chain profile obviously in it. I will probably not even put a handle on this one and just polish the whole thing, etch it and whola. the other is a little damascus hunter I made for a friend this weekend.
I cut two sections of chain and forge welded them to a piece of 1080 steel just to see what it would look like. My goal was a servicable knife that you could actually see the chain in. I have made blades by forge welding up a billet out of chain but the final product, although cool, resembles nothing of the original chain. Once polished and etched the chain should really pop on this one. It was just an experiment but it turned out really solid and I think with a few tweaks I could really turn of a decent blade that has the chain profile obviously in it. I will probably not even put a handle on this one and just polish the whole thing, etch it and whola. the other is a little damascus hunter I made for a friend this weekend.