Originally Posted by
sevenmag
I'm not a knife maker, but I can make a nice knife. The carbon content on the frame tubing was my assumption.
Processing time also. The tubes would need to be sawn into short lengths, stripped of paint, and oil and rust inside, then pounded flat and stacked and forged to make a Damascus billet. Huge time-intensive effort since the tube walls are so thin .... the entire frame might not yield enough steel to make a single blade.