You mentioned your a bladesmith as well. Im new to blade smithing im a master union sheet metal worker just now after many years getting into blade smithing. I have experience with stock removal knife making similare to this not as nice yet but im focusing my education currently towards heat treat thermal cycling. I asked the channel maker this question and wanted to ask you as well see who answers first just so i can learn i have a project im working on. When he went for the heat treat in this video from what i have learned so fare to me it apeared almost welding temperature. And was told a quench that hot can cause micro fractures throughout the blade. Especially dealing with higher carbon steel. In your opinion what is a good temp to quench and do you thermal cycle before the quench. And what should it look like. I always go until its no longer magnetic than i quench. I also use transmision fluid and or canola oil. Any suggestions or input welcome. This guy made a beautiful blade with basic tools and a nice file jig.
@@joshofalltradesgendron5464 My approach is not very scientific, I heat the blade about as hot as my homemade heat-treat forge can, then quench in oil, then put it in the oven for a few hours at 400 up and down twice. I mainly make knives from big, used circular saw blades. I usually test a few small pieces of a blade before I make a bunch of knives out of it by heat treating the way I normally do, then performing a few tests to make sure it'll get hard, but not too brittle, and hold an edge.
Thank you thats basically all i do as well also wrenches chisles and files. I heat my blade until i see the nice coloration and check with magnet once its not magnetic than i take it out and quench. Ive had a few early attempts where my blades where as Orange in this video and blasted fireballs in the quench and each of those blades failed in stress test though had excelent file skate. I later learned that quenching at welding temp or near welding temp can cause severe stress fractures after i asked this question to you. I spoke with a local 40 year bladesmith blacksmith and informed me on what i did wrong. Thank you for taking time to help educate me. I really want this hobby to take off for me.
@@lylahsworld3930It's a filing jig, you can make one of the various designs at home. You can find some videos on them online, most of them using a bastard file, some more adjustable others not. With some screws, plywood, a couple hardware pieces, a metal pipe and a bastard file you can make something.
Kyle Fisher Not “every dad ever” has a drill press, hacksaw blades for metal, a dremel, and especially not a budding wheel and a forge. Most of those items aren’t common unless the dad in question is a craftsman or does a lot of home repairs/ construction
@@hicksteryt6617 I understand what you are saying. The point is basic tools does not mean tools that everyone has, it means that this is the simplest version of the tool in question, your dad may or may not have them, no one is saying that these are mandotory tools or most commonly found tools but if he has tools for crafting/repairing , this is the most basic set you can have . Thus the title "using basic tools".
The only thing that isn't basic is a furnace, and with some home Depot supplies, you can make one in an hour. Most of those things are toys for 60% of dads. If you don't, that sucks, but what are you expecting to make a knife from scratch from if you don't have at least basic tools??
@@lukesadler6830 ARE YOU JOKING? WITH ONLY A FILE. THAT SIMPLE. AND SIMPLE FIRE TO PAINT IT (BURNING). LOOK WHAT MEANS BASIC TOOLS MY FRIEND. ruclips.net/video/_5LXpgSzKyQ/видео.html
Still one of my favorite builds you've done. So many to choose from though. Appreciate all the content. Thanks for the bit of inspiration and the hard work that goes into your craft.
I love how ppl are so ignorant. SIMPLE knife making tools!! Either way you did an amazing job. I just found you channel and look forward to watching more
I liked the video and the editing was good, but you should put a tool and material list in the description for people who will obviously want to recreate the knife. Thanks
Random piece of mild steel, anneal before starting to shape blade. Angle grinder. Metal file. Drill. Fire, pref a forge but campfire is also doable. Various sandpapers. Old oil for tempering, fresh oil for polishing up and treating the wood. Hammer to peen the pins on the handle, And a sharpening stone if you can't sharpen it enough with the sandpaper.
@@livier3970 Dude, a "forge" can be just an anvil, a source of intense heat, hammers, tongs and files. All of that combined is still more basic than a belt grinder.
Great build,you might consider taking the base off of your bench grinder used for the last step sharping,and turning it around so you switch will still face you and the wheels will turn the other direction! Much easier to sharpen with edge facing up
4:12 That moment when, “Maybe I should use gloves when I do this stuff” finally registers. Beautiful work, though. Videos like these make me want to learn to create things with my hands.
I like this knife!It was made with basic tools,regardless of the critical comments.Very good video,and basic tools doesn't necessarily mean stone age tools.I'm sure I'd mess up a good many pieces of bar stock before getting it close to this nice. He's got skill.
@@Mrflymess I said mostly but a grinder and a dremel are power tools that you hold in your hand so my statement holds true. Anyway I'm just paying the guy a compliment on a nice job, why knock him?
Nice job, but those aren't basic tools especially a forge. For what it would cost me to buy all those tools, I be better off just buying a nice blade, a very nice blade.
How i made a knife with basic tools: Coal forge made of fire briks and a hair dryer A "anvil"(a piece of metal that I bought on an junkyard) Hammer A chisel to cut the metal Vise Recycled metal for the blade Square and round file 2L of canola oil to hardening(the tempering as made holding the blade above the fire for a few minutes) Sandpaper and sharpening stone Recycled wood or leather Pins on the handle it all cost me 100 reais/ less than 50 bucks Sorry my bad english, i'm brazilian
Awesome video man! I absolutely love your channel. I really respect the level of quality you are able to achieve. Those crisp grind lines are something to envy!
Wow !! Really- WOW ! That was some wicked foreplay and then a beautiful climax with the grand finale finish . I won’t begin to Understand how there are 260 some thumbs downs on this !?!? Really ??? What is wrong with this world !?!? Well Done !!!!!
Amazing ! Such a marvelous knife , didatic , simple , with a beautiful light . One of the best videos I have seen on knife making . Congratulations from Brazil .
so it's basically just not using a grinder for the bevels or handle shaping. which does in fact make it really difficult. so props for having the patience to do all that hand filing.
Thank you for this video. I'm just starting out and this made me a 1000 times more comfortable getting into this. I have pretty much the same forge you have mine is just square. I just need to buy a few things and I'll have all the tools you have. I haven't checked the video description box yet but do you have a tool list?? Thanks in advance if you do.
The furnace is rather expensive and not really a basic tool. Was the steel stainless or high carbon? Love the design of the knife and the video. Good job!
Reiner mit ei, bidde! Not so! Only 9:18 (length of video) cuz of his wicked-fast filework. (Massive fast-twitch muscle fibres!) Still, I would offer him maybe $150-175...
Thank you for sparing us the ubiquitous "Paper Slice Test" that seems to prove almost every blade on here.Your knife is a testament to "Less is More" excellent piece of work .
Nice look to the blade. Can I ask what grit you took the blade to before the feric chloride and how long in the feric? Most peeps seem to go to 320 grit and 10-15 mins in feric, but I'm not certain?
I have questions: when you FLIP the blade during the Bevel "HOW" did you assure it would be EVEN? 2nd Why polish out the hammer marks & then re apply them with dipping? it looked Great before =/ 3rd HOW did you account for Bevel angle when putting an EDGE on it? =/
Well, I don't know about the numbers placed on Steel. Back 40 years ago will you lose anything from horseshoes to an old buggy axle. Now I'll tell you an old buggy axle and I do mean old, you can Hammer some good tools out of them thangs. Also, railroad spikes if they're heated up and fold it over like we did the horseshoes several times they can be beat into some good metal. Then again we had no other place to get metal
What was that solution you soaked the blade in after you cut the Micarta???and what did you use to glue the handles on?? And the polishing wheel... can you give me a link to that too?
What steel did you use because i would like to forge a knife but i got 308 stainless steel and a normal drill and grinder doesn't do the job and what does the heat do when forging a nice knife
Everyone in the comment section is going off on how he's not using "basic tools", but he really is. if you see he's not forging out the blade, he's doing the much simpler method of stock removal, which only requires the cutting and shaping of barsock steel. he uses an angle grinder for this, which is a very basic tool, but you could get by with a hacksaw aswell. he ground the bevels with a file and bevel jig. the jig was made of PVC for Christs sake, and that's pretty basic. using a Dremel to ream out the tighter spots, but again you could just get by with sandpaper or even just a rat tail file. now this steel is annealed, so its not at all hardened. in order to harden the steel you must heat it and quench it, then temper it. he did this with his forge, but you can do it with even a barbecue and a source of air to heat those coals very hot. none of what he did here is out of anyones range, and this is pretty simple in perspective to industrial knife making, and even some other hobbyists. this was a very simple, yet very elegant build, and anyone could do it.
The only “basic” tool in my house was a black marker. And I’m not sure if it can write or not.
Kaan Kaya Lol
Basic tools my ducking ass
I don’t even have a marker
@@escofortnitegamer309 I dont even have a penis
Bana Bino lmao
As a knife maker, I'll say you did an excellent job using what I consider to be very basic tools. Great work.
You mentioned your a bladesmith as well. Im new to blade smithing im a master union sheet metal worker just now after many years getting into blade smithing. I have experience with stock removal knife making similare to this not as nice yet but im focusing my education currently towards heat treat thermal cycling. I asked the channel maker this question and wanted to ask you as well see who answers first just so i can learn i have a project im working on. When he went for the heat treat in this video from what i have learned so fare to me it apeared almost welding temperature. And was told a quench that hot can cause micro fractures throughout the blade. Especially dealing with higher carbon steel. In your opinion what is a good temp to quench and do you thermal cycle before the quench. And what should it look like. I always go until its no longer magnetic than i quench. I also use transmision fluid and or canola oil. Any suggestions or input welcome. This guy made a beautiful blade with basic tools and a nice file jig.
@@joshofalltradesgendron5464 My approach is not very scientific, I heat the blade about as hot as my homemade heat-treat forge can, then quench in oil, then put it in the oven for a few hours at 400 up and down twice. I mainly make knives from big, used circular saw blades. I usually test a few small pieces of a blade before I make a bunch of knives out of it by heat treating the way I normally do, then performing a few tests to make sure it'll get hard, but not too brittle, and hold an edge.
Thank you thats basically all i do as well also wrenches chisles and files. I heat my blade until i see the nice coloration and check with magnet once its not magnetic than i take it out and quench. Ive had a few early attempts where my blades where as Orange in this video and blasted fireballs in the quench and each of those blades failed in stress test though had excelent file skate. I later learned that quenching at welding temp or near welding temp can cause severe stress fractures after i asked this question to you. I spoke with a local 40 year bladesmith blacksmith and informed me on what i did wrong. Thank you for taking time to help educate me. I really want this hobby to take off for me.
@@seskipper806What is that file pole thing he uses to make the bevel, and how does it work
@@lylahsworld3930It's a filing jig, you can make one of the various designs at home. You can find some videos on them online, most of them using a bastard file, some more adjustable others not. With some screws, plywood, a couple hardware pieces, a metal pipe and a bastard file you can make something.
You're gonna need:
- Paper.
- Marker.
- Lime tool.
- a Blacksmith's workshop.
Namaste.
That is true but look at it as a investment. If you buy quality tools they will last longer than you will if you take care of them believe me.
Or just heat it up with a blowtorch, or do the even cheaper (but less reliable) option and use a campfire.
From my own experience, what he's doing is as basic as it gets for knife making. It's hardly a shop. I say, GREAT JOB AV make!!! Keep it up.
You could technically do it yourself using some coal
“Basic tools” here is like the blacksmith version of when a Minecraft youtuber say they did a little mining off camera
Haha yeah but to be fair those are basic tools for a rural home, you probably live in a big city?
those are tools that literally every dad ever has. plus, what were you expecting? him to make it out of a cereal box?
Kyle Fisher Not “every dad ever” has a drill press, hacksaw blades for metal, a dremel, and especially not a budding wheel and a forge. Most of those items aren’t common unless the dad in question is a craftsman or does a lot of home repairs/ construction
@@hicksteryt6617 I understand what you are saying.
The point is basic tools does not mean tools that everyone has, it means that this is the simplest version of the tool in question, your dad may or may not have them, no one is saying that these are mandotory tools or most commonly found tools
but if he has tools for crafting/repairing , this is the most basic set you can have . Thus the title "using basic tools".
The only thing that isn't basic is a furnace, and with some home Depot supplies, you can make one in an hour. Most of those things are toys for 60% of dads. If you don't, that sucks, but what are you expecting to make a knife from scratch from if you don't have at least basic tools??
Anyone else finding out how to make a knife while stuck at home with corona lmao
Zach Grossman yeah bro use the spoons then toilet paper for handle it’ll be worth tons
Flat files
Yes I am lol
I'm using old saw blades I had lying around
yep
Dude basic tools are a Hammer and a screw not a forge, still nice video
filippo latte, how the frick else would u make it
Forge is a basic tool. But I don’t think angle grinders and dremels are
Now I want to see someone make a knife using only a hammer and a screw :(
Can't harden a blade without a forge Dingus, you could use a coal forge though.
@@lukesadler6830 ARE YOU JOKING? WITH ONLY A FILE. THAT SIMPLE. AND SIMPLE FIRE TO PAINT IT (BURNING). LOOK WHAT MEANS BASIC TOOLS MY FRIEND. ruclips.net/video/_5LXpgSzKyQ/видео.html
I don't have the basic tools mentioned here to make a knife, but I think I just made a baby. Life is gooood.
Now to sharpen it..
Oh dear god no
Still one of my favorite builds you've done.
So many to choose from though. Appreciate all the content.
Thanks for the bit of inspiration and the hard work that goes into your craft.
I love how ppl are so ignorant. SIMPLE knife making tools!! Either way you did an amazing job. I just found you channel and look forward to watching more
I agree 100% there are a lot haters on here lol. He made a better knife than I can and used much more basic tools. 👊
Totally agree.
How to invade a country with basic tools:
*uses laser minigun*
Only Basic minigun
I'm sure everyone is paying attention to your comments...you have 13 subscribers, and he has 21K...:-)
@@edanthony4131 well you have 1 so 13 is still better if you think that way
Ed Anthony and you have 1
Aynen kardeşim. Adamın evinde herşey var bide basic diyo.. 😄
That Dremel work is beautiful! This is such an amazing knife.
I liked the video and the editing was good, but you should put a tool and material list in the description for people who will obviously want to recreate the knife. Thanks
Random piece of mild steel, anneal before starting to shape blade.
Angle grinder.
Metal file.
Drill.
Fire, pref a forge but campfire is also doable.
Various sandpapers.
Old oil for tempering, fresh oil for polishing up and treating the wood.
Hammer to peen the pins on the handle,
And a sharpening stone if you can't sharpen it enough with the sandpaper.
Got damn I didn’t know having a drill press was basic tooling my garage sucks
Maybe try an ordinary hand drill?
The Apple Bros that won’t work 😂
@@therealbatman4000 why not?
@BrendanMorlik Got damn you have a garage? My little balcony sucks
For some people basic tooling is everything except a lathe lmao
Holy cow that's a gorgeous design... You were so faithful to the original sketch it's almost like a photo. Great work
I imagine what non-basic tools looks like to this dude. Bring in the alien proton ray machinery.
Do you see how cheap and basic that rotary tool was? It looked like Ozito which is only 60 dollars and pretty crappy next to ryobi
This is basic tool 🙄 you are just in a city
@@livier3970 Yeah, XIV century blacksmiths sure loved their belt grinders and other various "basic" power tools.
@@Kirai_ yeah i prefer original blacksmithing, a forge is not basic, a grinder yes
@@livier3970 Dude, a "forge" can be just an anvil, a source of intense heat, hammers, tongs and files. All of that combined is still more basic than a belt grinder.
You did a beautiful job. On your next project leave the dremel spots dark. It add so much to the look. ^_^ Keep the videos coming.
I was literally just watching videos on how to do this! Perfect timing!
Great build,you might consider taking the base off of your bench grinder used for the last step sharping,and turning it around so you switch will still face you and the wheels will turn the other direction! Much easier to sharpen with edge facing up
This video incouraged me to start a business and make my own knives
"Basic tools" uses a goddamn flamethrower
Elon musk can help u out
4:12 That moment when, “Maybe I should use gloves when I do this stuff” finally registers.
Beautiful work, though. Videos like these make me want to learn to create things with my hands.
I like this knife!It was made with basic tools,regardless of the critical comments.Very good video,and basic tools doesn't necessarily mean stone age tools.I'm sure I'd mess up a good many pieces of bar stock before getting it close to this nice. He's got skill.
Beautiful piece, I understand that this was not a tutorial but equipment and supplies list would really help. Very nice work.
Yeah, want to know what the blue stuff was at the beginning, or what the handle is made of
Considering you used mostly hand tools, outstanding job. Very nice work!
hahaha! hand tools like a drill press & angle grinder. Yeah, sure
@@Mrflymess I said mostly but a grinder and a dremel are power tools that you hold in your hand so my statement holds true. Anyway I'm just paying the guy a compliment on a nice job, why knock him?
Nice job, but those aren't basic tools especially a forge. For what it would cost me to buy all those tools, I be better off just buying a nice blade, a very nice blade.
You can make a “forge” with a couple bucks.
Gas bottle/hose and a few breezeblocks (Cinderblocks for Americans)
Could probably get all these tools at harbor Freight for around 100-150 total
@@OldNavajoTricks Not concrete cinderblocks, right? Only if u want a granade though, then u can use concrete in a forge.
The tool investment would actually be a better and more long term investment that could possibly pay out over and over again for you.
I love watching your videos. So much visual detail, which is helpful since I'm blind
Uuuuuuu. Ma man .I JUST FOUND A VIDEO THAT MAKING KNIFE “WITH”BASIC TOOL . God job man
Really lovley knife. It's nice to see a beautiful product made with simple tools with talented hands.
How i made a knife with basic tools:
Coal forge made of fire briks and a hair dryer
A "anvil"(a piece of metal that I bought on an junkyard)
Hammer
A chisel to cut the metal
Vise
Recycled metal for the blade
Square and round file
2L of canola oil to hardening(the tempering as made holding the blade above the fire for a few minutes)
Sandpaper and sharpening stone
Recycled wood or leather
Pins on the handle
it all cost me 100 reais/ less than 50 bucks
Sorry my bad english, i'm brazilian
one of the most beautifull knives out there , good job
I love this video. I probably watchet it like 20 times and i still come back to it.
Awesome video man! I absolutely love your channel. I really respect the level of quality you are able to achieve. Those crisp grind lines are something to envy!
Wow. I would be pretty proud to own this knife. It’s nice.
Homemade perfection. Beautiful brother, thank you.
Me with my hammer excited to make a knife, I was lied about basic tools
Geez, you gotta be PROUD of this awesome KNIFE, you done a great video and thanks for sharing it 👍🏻
Wow !!
Really- WOW !
That was some wicked foreplay and then a beautiful climax with the grand finale finish .
I won’t begin to Understand how there are 260 some thumbs downs on this !?!?
Really ???
What is wrong with this world !?!?
Well Done !!!!!
It's just what " they " do Man , just what they do .
That is truly one of the better knives I've seen on RUclips. Good job.
Search for Slavik Tely, then. He is the number one
Amazing ! Such a marvelous knife , didatic , simple , with a beautiful light . One of the best videos I have seen on knife making . Congratulations from Brazil .
Finally a knife maker uses metric system
Love it
Well he done a good job but screw the metric system!
Oh by the way I like to buy my whiskey in quarts and Pints and gallons. I don't like damn 500ml 750ml and thousand mL bottle
Up to you
That’s a solid looking knife. Well designed!
I like the arrows on the bench grinder 😂
Thats a sick blade. I love the profile. Personally id like about an inch longer blade. But that thing turned out awesome..looks professional
so it's basically just not using a grinder for the bevels or handle shaping. which does in fact make it really difficult. so props for having the patience to do all that hand filing.
That's a really nice blade I like it a lot
Handle is my favorite part!!!! Nice work!!!
Thank you for this video. I'm just starting out and this made me a 1000 times more comfortable getting into this. I have pretty much the same forge you have mine is just square. I just need to buy a few things and I'll have all the tools you have. I haven't checked the video description box yet but do you have a tool list?? Thanks in advance if you do.
Nice damascus technic...n off course he did a san mai method too.great job...i'm blacksmith too
Beautiful product but the tools are not basic my friend
afridi1100 Right, he could of at least named all these “basic” tools he was using
Aside from the forge it actually was pretty basic tools
Great job bud. I like the darker contrast on the dremel marks. It adds depth and character. Good work 👍
Stunning knife!!!! Absolutely love the video. Thanks for sharing
Sweet! Thats it. The basic tools are basic for a small shop or used by a handyman. I have these basic tools...enjoyed the vid thx for sharing
The furnace is rather expensive and not really a basic tool. Was the steel stainless or high carbon? Love the design of the knife and the video. Good job!
H.R. Pufnstuf it’s a high carbon steel
Looks like it was marked as O1, which is a carbon tool steel and pretty easy to work with.
That knife turned out beautiful
Totally awesome knife dude. Learned alot with your short video thanx.
one of the best videos on knife making I ever saw. Thx buddy
Awesome knife. It came out really nice. Great job.
Dude, I have all of the stuff that you used and thought that I needed more. Will try to make one now. Thanks !
Done it yet? If so let me know how it turned out!
Everyone's going on about basic tools, whatever, this is bad ass! How long did it take?
Could ya tell me, ok that first heat treat then cooling it with the liquid, was that called annealing? Then the oven bake, is that the hardening?
Wonderful knife. Great job.
Beautiful looking knife. What’s is the coating liquid in the plastic bottle you dipped the blade in called
Fantastic job. I love what you did...
Gorgeous knife, absolutely gorgeous
No matter what other can say about this kind of crafting ...
You know what : I would pay around US$45 for this kind of knife ... Nice video ! .
He probably worked on it for 10 hours. So you would only give him a third of the money its worth without taxes?
Hahaha
Reiner mit ei, bidde! Not so! Only 9:18 (length of video) cuz of his wicked-fast filework. (Massive fast-twitch muscle fibres!) Still, I would offer him maybe $150-175...
Good day. What steel did you use on that knife. It's really beautiful ....
That blade was a little too hot going into the oil.
i have a question actually would it be better to use wood or a piece of horn for a handle for a knife
That's a handsome knife...
DAAAAAAMN! That is one awesome looking knife you’ve made for yourself.
everything used has cheap alternatives yo probs need an angle grinder, a hammer drill, files and a blowtorch
Do you put the edge before or after the heat treatment?
That's a sweet lookin knife dude
Thank you for sparing us the ubiquitous "Paper Slice Test" that seems to prove almost every blade on here.Your knife is a testament to "Less is More" excellent piece of work .
Awesome knife man, I like how the Dremel work turned out
What was it that you duped the blade in.. not the oil for the quench but after that?
Great job💪🏼
Nice look to the blade.
Can I ask what grit you took the blade to before the feric chloride and how long in the feric? Most peeps seem to go to 320 grit and 10-15 mins in feric, but I'm not certain?
OUTSTANDING WORK MY FRIEND!
Greetings from Argentina. With what do you polish the micarta at the end?
Thank you for such a great video, could you please let me know what the material you used for the handle is called? Thanks
Mircata green canvas and aluminium pins.
AVmake Please point out that inhaling micarta dust is not a good thing! If people try this, they should have eye and lung protection.
Would a vice work aswell instead of the clamps for the handle process?
I have questions: when you FLIP the blade during the Bevel "HOW" did you assure it would be EVEN? 2nd Why polish out the hammer marks & then re apply them with dipping? it looked Great before =/ 3rd HOW did you account for Bevel angle when putting an EDGE on it? =/
Lord Baccus 1. When he flipped it, the angle of the file stays the same. 2. I do not know. 3. That comes with experience and repetition.
could i use wooden dowel rods for pins along with the epoxy?
Not basic tools but that was a good lookin knife my man
So im making my first knife and Im having a hard time shaping the blade. What did you use that was attached to pvc pipe?
What is the best steel to use for beginners and where do you get the designs
Those are my designs,if you are beginner you want high carbon steels like O1,1095,1084,80crV2 they are pretty simple to harden and temper.
Well, I don't know about the numbers placed on Steel. Back 40 years ago will you lose anything from horseshoes to an old buggy axle. Now I'll tell you an old buggy axle and I do mean old, you can Hammer some good tools out of them thangs. Also, railroad spikes if they're heated up and fold it over like we did the horseshoes several times they can be beat into some good metal. Then again we had no other place to get metal
What was that solution you soaked the blade in after you cut the Micarta???and what did you use to glue the handles on?? And the polishing wheel... can you give me a link to that too?
Aww man he was suppose to shave his arm with it after lol
Just perfect, you should put your signature on
Nice work...👍
Estupendo! Excelente trabajo.
Beautiful knife but i missed the cutting test......:(
That’s a sweet blade. I like what you did with the dremal tool. I’m gonna try and make one like this.
All I heard when the dremel tool going off.....
“Meeeeooww meeeooowww meeeowww”
🐱
You make that look so easy I think I can do it.
Amazing work and I'm going to make the file jig!! I subscribed to your Chanel, blessings 🙏
What steel did you use because i would like to forge a knife but i got 308 stainless steel and a normal drill and grinder doesn't do the job and what does the heat do when forging a nice knife
3:13 how much does creating the edge usually take especially by hand?
Long time, probably half a day to a day (IMO) :)
Wild bosnian aproximately half an hour, ignore Michiel Buyens
Everyone in the comment section is going off on how he's not using "basic tools", but he really is. if you see he's not forging out the blade, he's doing the much simpler method of stock removal, which only requires the cutting and shaping of barsock steel. he uses an angle grinder for this, which is a very basic tool, but you could get by with a hacksaw aswell. he ground the bevels with a file and bevel jig. the jig was made of PVC for Christs sake, and that's pretty basic. using a Dremel to ream out the tighter spots, but again you could just get by with sandpaper or even just a rat tail file. now this steel is annealed, so its not at all hardened. in order to harden the steel you must heat it and quench it, then temper it. he did this with his forge, but you can do it with even a barbecue and a source of air to heat those coals very hot. none of what he did here is out of anyones range, and this is pretty simple in perspective to industrial knife making, and even some other hobbyists. this was a very simple, yet very elegant build, and anyone could do it.