David the japanese tools are laminated in a similar manner i converted a chisel over to western.
What are laminated steel tools made of.
A laminated steel blade or piled steel is a knife sword or other tool blade made out of layers of differing types of steel rather than a single homogeneous alloy the earliest steel blades were laminated out of necessity due to the early bloomery method of smelting iron which made production of steel expensive and inconsistent laminated steel offered both a way to average out the.
The blade of this knife is made two layers of laminated steel one very hard to keep a keen edge the other softer for toughness and durability hammer forged into one piece like samurai swords and super sharp.
I ve done this many times as described to make router cutters and stellite is quite easy to hone and has good hot hardness to around 500c so can be also used for.
Stellite 100 can be laminated by brazing to a softer mild steel such as en3a or low carbon steel such as en8 or even en24t alloy steel without losing its hardness.
Many types of tool materials ranging from high carbon steel to ceramics and diamonds are used as cutting tools in today s metalworking industry.