Fabricated carving bar for chainsaw

[brianh]

The maker of the best carving bar I have ever used stopped manufacturing them. It was called the Sioux warrior carving bar, so I decided to try to make my own most carving bars just have a welded layer of stellite around the tip I would get a year or less out of one before it was wore out.

Stellite tip bars also wear the chain straps reducing chain life had more than one snap from wear

I have two of the Warrior bars one is 5 years old the other 2 I wanted another for the saw I keep at my other shop.

My material for the bar was 2 Inch Wide x 3/16 Inch Thick, Tool Steel Air Hardening Flat Stock I bought a 36” piece at MSC direct.

https://www.mscdirect.com/product/details/03718053

The blank was cut with a cutoff wheel in a die grinder then smoothed to shape with a belt sander I have a 6 x 48 floor model. A plasma cutter would do a great job I bet.

The mounting slot was done on the milling machine

The chain guide slot was ground with a thin cutoff wheel in a router table multiple light passes were needed.


I heat treated it at 1800 degrees for 35 minutes in the improvised woodstove insulator pipe forge, it worked really well I am going to fix it up to be a more permanent tool.

Let it air quench Then tempered for an hour at 400

I have been using mine for over a month with no wear just like the warrior bar, I would have preferred just to have bought one for the time and effort to make it.

It was a good learning experience. And its working

 

[fourjeepin]

Wow, I didn't expect a serious woodworker to also have metal fab skills. Nice job

 

[brianh]

Wow, I didn't expect a serious woodworker to also have metal fab skills. Nice job

Thank you, I do a fair amount of metalwork just not for a living.

 

[Rick M]

Saw your link from the other thread. Asking as a woodworker who is beginning to dabble with metal -- how did you regulate the temperature over that period of time?

Your carvings are impressive. My uncle did chainsaw carvings as a hobby, he passed years ago, but I still have one of his eagles. I believe your have even more detail.

 

[Bondo]

Ayuh,.... Wicked Cool,.... Impressive,....

 

[brianh]

Saw your link from the other thread. Asking as a woodworker who is beginning to dabble with metal -- how did you regulate the temperature over that period of time?

Your carvings are impressive. My uncle did chainsaw carvings as a hobby, he passed years ago, but I still have one of his eagles. I believe your have even more detail.

I used a color chart not the most precise way, thats how they did it in the old days the bars are holding up well so I must have been close to getting it right.