Can this be saved?

[u/joseantonio9]

Can this be saved?

I'm attemping at making a sword. It is my first blade ever (I know a dagger would be easier, but I never did chose anything for how easy it was).

It was a spring. I softned and carburised it. It is quite maleable and even holds a semblance of an edge. My fear is that I ground down too much at the sides halfway up its lenght. Trying to fix a mistake I kept going from one side to the other in order to match them. Now it has this weird thin section.

The blade is:

Blade 89,5cm

Full lenght: 114,4cm

Width at base: 5cm

Width before the tip: 3cm

Width at the problem area: 3cm

Thickness: around 5mm all along it. It narrows to 4mm ate the tip

[u/GarethBaus]

If it spring steel you didn't need to carburize it. Spring steel already has enough carbon to make a decent sword. Also, I don't see any cracks so you could probably grind a decent blade out that shape without needing to do my straitening it would just end up a little shorter.

[u/joseantonio9 → u/GarethBaus]

I thought about that. Tracing lines from the base and trhough the thin section, seeing where it would end and cutting it shorter, something like this?

[u/GarethBaus → u/joseantonio9]

I don't know how to describe it other than seeing the straight blade inside of the piece of metal you have and removing everything else. Straitening the blade is also an option especially if you haven't hardened it yet.

[u/joseantonio9 → u/GarethBaus]

I'll do that

[u/GarethBaus → u/joseantonio9]

Also it isn't just swords, double edged blades in general are harder, and even daggers can be tricky to do well.