salvage/scrap/surplus tool steel marketing is a crapshoot at best considering the going rates and the recent volatility in the market with small lots. I guess even the suppliers are having a hard time swallowing the inventory costs right now and looking to cut their ongoing costs by sacrificing some profit just to get the stuff moved. there is some ongoing and rising activity in the home-made and custom-made knife and cutter market with a lot of knife-grade-materials sales going on to the casual hobbyist and the small-shop tinkerers etc. If you have bar-stock materials like A2, S7, D2, or even A1 and 01 grades in the sizes for forging or grinding knife blades or even specialty types of things like a brushblade, jaws or inserts for a bolt cutter, or other stuff that the homebrew market seems to attract, you might get some activity by advertising your stuff on these bulletin boards. they look for bargains like everybody but they also have word-of bulletin-board activity if you have something hot in their market. they buy everything from stock ATS34, 52100, and D2 to old saw blades so its a chancy market but its there for what its worth. the advertising is free but for the time it takes to post so not much $ to lose for the market trial. )f course, I sure would appreciate a nice cut of the $ if you sell a batch. I'll just wait here for the checks to start rolling in.
