Is aluminum a worthy material for a knife?
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Is aluminum a worthy material for a knife?
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I would only consider it for possibly the cladding on a knife. Definitely not for the cutting edge or anything else because it’s weak and soft. Even for the cladding, I would have second thoughts because it is easily scratched up, which would make it hard to preserve the beauty of the knife.
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Sure, as long as you use it to revet the handle on the blade, or to make the handle of the knife. In this case you also have to anodize it, otherwise it will blacken your hands during each use.
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Only as a wall decoration. The only advantages I could think of are that it wouldn’t stain, and it’d be really easy to get an edge on it.
But the edge would last all of 41 seconds of usage. Think of what your looking to use the knife for then look around for the best type for the job….made of some kind of steel.
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It CAN work, but it’s outclassed by steels of even moderate quality.
The good things about aluminum are that it’s cheap and pretty light. The bad things about aluminum as far as knifemaking is concerned are that it bends easily and doesn’t hold an edge very well.
As far a suitability for knives go, Aluminum is in the same class as copper: it works ok, but you’d really like to have something else without all of the obvious shortcomings. Also like copper, it is work hardened, so to get an aluminum blade to be hard and resist deformation you need to hammer it. Without work hardening, aluminum is an inferior blade material. Even with work hardening, it is only a…
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For a handle, yes. For decorative trim, a blade guard or pommel, certainly. For a blade- no. You can get alloys of aluminum that will get up to a Rockwell hardness of B60, which, as part of the B series means it is measured similar to soft steel and brass. Both of which make terrible blades, unless you don’t need an edge, like a butter knife.
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The answer is yes and no. Yes for the body which will be lighter rust proof. As for the blade the aluminium is very soft and will deform with very little force, and will not retain sharpness for long, a it wear very easily.
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Yes, it’s perfectly fine for building a good knife, like for some knife furniture, sometimes it’s even been used for handles, but not for the blade, never for the blade, unless you are just making a blunt unsharpened trainer type of knife blade.
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“Worthy” how?
Aluminum is a soft metal that can deform easily and has low plasticity and melting temperatures. While its malleability and light weight make it ideal for uses where weight restrictions are critical, such as aircraft, for uses where it it would be exposed to continued rough use or heat, it is not ideal. It also cannot hold an edge like steel, steel alloys and many ceramics can.
An aluminum knife blade is possible. However, it wouldn’t be the “go to” choice for most knife wielders or users.
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You would be better choosing bronze.
I’m assuming you can’t get iron or steel, and the Bronze age came long before we were able to produce aluminium, so as long as you can get hold of tin and copper ores bronze is fairly straightforward.
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To make a knife you need a special hardened steel that is something like 5 time harder than classical stainless steels like AISI 304.
If not, the edge will become dull very quickly.
Aluminium is generally half the hardness of 304. Some very costly aeronautic alloys can reach roughly the same hardness.
So that an Aluminum blade with lose edge very very fast…
Aluminium is frequently used for knives handles. I don’t really like it because aluminium corrosion can form neurotoxic compounds. However a well anodized aluminium is probably safe.
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Only if weight is the main design consideration. It’s a flimsy material when compared to just about anything else you could make a knife from – the advantage would be that it’s light and might be able to evade some metal detectors. It would also be easy to sharpen, but quick to dull (so probably limited use as a kitchen or utility knife unless it’s being used to spread butter). Even ceramic would make a better kitchen knife (proven by all the ceramic kitchen knives on the market and complete lack of aluminum ones), and it would also make a better stealth knife as well unless (again) weight were the main consideration. Aluminum is metal, so even if it’s less likely to trigger a detector, it still CAN trigger one. And even when it comes to weight, there are a lot of ways to reduce the weight of a knife made from a heavier (and possibly cheaper) material without sacrificing surface area, or length, or width, or blade thickness.
Adding a groove, using relatively light alloys, maybe putting some holes along the blade, among other things, will all make a blade lighter. Aluminum may be a lightweight material, metals may be tough materials, and aluminum may be a metal… But aluminum is not a tough metal. It just weighs next to nothing, so it’s useful in airplane and possibly boat construction.
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Aluminum can only be used for knife handle and not the blades due to it’s soft/ductile nature. It will easily deform and may not cut through a piece. Steel does it better
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