Asarco Knife Metal Ingot

[pete501]

Federated Metals .... American Smelting and Refining Company .... Knife Metal

Its 5 pounds, pretty hard, cant scratch with a fingernail

Anybody Familiar with Knife Metal.

Its not a metal you would make a knife blade with unless its for knife bolsters or butts. In that case I know Tin is sometime used for that purpose.

[pete501]

I found another ingot from NF (Non-Ferris) stamped "Planer Knife"

It must be for setting planer blades. Maybe used in one of the saw mills.

[fc60]

Greetings,

Non Ferrous is still in business...

http://nfmetals.com/

A telephone call might prove helpful.

Cheers,

Dave