How to Forge a Spoon Carving Knife on a Budget
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Learn to forge your own spoon carving and woodworking tools with a very simple and inexpensive setup at home. Here I show how to make a simple hook or crook knife Always use proper safety precautions, especially with regard to flammable items and proper ventilation. A very special thanks to Tom Henscheid and Pratt Fine Arts center for teaching me so much about wood and metal work as well as constantly providing tons of inspiration.
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Good video, Anne! As a student of blacksmithing, a couple points on heat treating.
• It's often a good idea to run it through a couple "normalizing" cycles before the quench. This involves heating it to cherry red, then letting it cool in the open air.
• When heating it for the quench, you want to heat it to non-magnetic temperature. Test this with any magnet. If it doesn't stick, it's time to quench. The quenching process is what makes it hard, but it also makes it brittle. Don't drop it!
• Testing the quench is a matter of running a file over the metal. If it digs in, you haven't hardened it properly, and might have to re-quench. Make sure you do this when the steel has cooled, not while it's still hot, or you'll get a false read on it. The risk of re-quenching is "burning" the steel, which could result in cracks and other flaws.
• Tempering actually partially re-softens the steel, but ultimately makes it flexible, rather than brittle. Thus the slow, relatively low-heat process.
Again, fantastic video, Anne! I'm glad I found your channel!
David Oberholzer thanks for taking the time to save some folks some googling! Normalization is an important step I left out of my description especially when working with certain tool steels.
For someone who denies “expertise” you nailed this one. 10+ years of knife making over here. Absolutely bang up job miss. It makes my heart soar that you are doing what you are doing. Keep going.
thank you! I find it's far better to come at this stuff with humility. The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know. When people first get started and have a few early successes, it's easy to get over confident and then get... uh... humbled ;) but I do appreciate that encouragement.
Very cool video anne. Thank you for that
A very inspirational video I took a lot from this video
W1 drill rod is GREAT steel, if heat treated properly. I've made amazing kitchen knives out of it and have made other tools in a pinch. It's like 'better' 1095. I do prefer W2...but it's much harder to come by in general, and doesn't come in round stock very often. When I make my carving tools from W2 I cut an end piece off of 3/8" thick x 3" wide bar stock, then hammer it round to get what you have to start with there lol.
Love your videos and love how far you've come!!
Great stuff Anne, excited to see you delve into some more forging!
Thanks Zack! I'm stoked to get the big hoss forge and metal shop set up at home to do more.
You may not be an expert but you are clearly a ROCK STAR!!!
Wow.. something to shoot for.
Thanks for sharing.
Scott
Nice Woodworks
Thanks for watching Scott!
Très bon vidéo et très bon travail
i just love your videos
Nice job, Anne! Had no idea there was that much to it! Cool to see how it all comes together.
There's even more to it than I could cover here, but hopefully there's enough to get everyone interested off to a good start.
Good explanation of concept and budget technique.
Thanks brother!
Wow, there is a lot to know to be ale to make those but needless to say it is well worth effort! Thanks Anna for showing us how to do this! Your so talented and your passion just eludes from you. I love your spirit 100%!!
Thanks so much Becky!
very good. I love your style and I love your works!
Thank you!
Hi Anne, Good job. Nothing seems to be an obstacle for you. You need something, you make it. After hardening, you of spoke of 2 different tempering methods. The oven method, and the drawing out colors method. It is important to heat the handle end of the steel {propane torch works great} and watching the tempering colors run. When the cutting edges turn a straw or somewhat darker color, quench it immediately to lock in the temper, rather then allowing it to cool on its own. The oven method is much easier to do. Thanks for posting. Jerry
You're doin Great for someone just startin out Darlin.. Keep up the good work. Don't be afraid to fail. Learn from it, & Improve.. Have fun, & Take care.
Thanks Edward! Never be afraid to fail!
Nice video Anne!
Thank you!
Another great little video, It's awesome that your putting together a library of useful how to videos that work together. Keep up the good work!
thank you Tom!
Slippery slope indeed :-) Well done!
Thank you!
Anne of All Trades BTW, Paul Sellers has a great video about making spokeshaves, and shaping and heat treating custom blades for those. ruclips.net/video/jZwzBbcwbgU/видео.html That might be a nice project for your forge :-)
Thanks! I love Paul's videos.
You made it! Gorgeous!!
Anne your awesome keep up the good work
Bold move posting this at the same time as the royal wedding... what should I watch!!
No contest - watch Anne :)
yes watch anne:)
Anne, of course! 😁
They aint my royalty, easy solution.
Awesome 👍👍👍👍I'm getting anxious to start using my forging stuff
You better use it, it's too nice not to!
Great info, just enough to get started. I don't have any more excuses.
No excuses! Go for it!
Awesome content indeed!
Nice instruction on building a hook knife. Definitely want to make a template/tool of various radii.
Great job Anne! Thank you!
Thanks Alan!
Nicé vork..🙂💯👍👍
Like that handle, and cool cap...
Thank you Robert!
Great video again, nice work, nice to see you again
Keep a magnet handy, you want to heat the metal to a temp. that takes the magnetism out of it before you quench. Also, used oil has carbon in it and that adds strength to the steel.. I'm not an expert, but I do have a portable forge and I learn from the local Blacksmith's in Pennsylvania..
The oil is the Hardening and the 4-500 degrees for an hour is Tempering.
here is a little list of steels that you can make knives
old curcular saw blades,old files,hack saw blades,leaf springs,coil springs and there is heaps more but mostley any thing that has an edge it will be good for knives
Darn now I have to do it. 😁 I need a few different blades and you make it look fun and not too difficult. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Nice work!
What perfect timing, I just made a spoon on my bandsaw but don’t really have a good way to hog out the.. uh... spoony part, if you will. Thanks for the great context as always!
good luck with your spooning!
just what i needed, so glad i subbed.
Glad to hear it!
Great work Anne!!! I hope to get into the spoon/utensil making game myself! 😁🌲
Go for it!
Great job Anne !!!
Thanks Charles!
Great work Anne 😀 Alex Steele is a great source of black smithing
Alec is awesome!
New subscriber. Very smart. 🎓. 😎
Thanks Stan!
Really cool Anne!😀 Awesome work and thanks for the info! 👍👊
Thanks Fred!
This looks like a fun project. I've always used a torch for heating, but that small forge is a great idea and the price is certainly nice, too.
I was sorta bummed that the vid didn't fade out with some mandolin playing.
Robert Farmer there will be more mandolin soon, I think this video was taken at like 1am, and I needed to just finish it hahaha!
Great video Anne. Keep em up.
Thanks James!
Yeah, so this isn't my area of interest, but I watched the whole thing, and you didn't disappoint.
Very interesting techniques, and even though you were learning it as you went, you described it perfectly and in the stellar manner we have come to know from you. Well done, Anne, and I can't wait for the next video.
Bob
Thanks for watching Bob! I love that you're enjoying the videos. Motivates me to keep making them!
Great Video Anne! You're so resourceful. Many of us makers, including myself, need to be better at recycling used material into useful projects. Very inspiring! It would've been cool if you had Ashley to turn the handle for the spoon knife. :)
Ron Hochhalter we will be doing some projects together later this summer 😉
Amazing video and happily subbed now time to binge watch
Thanks so much!
very cool!!
Love it! Great video
Thanks!
Very cool, congrats on 20k!
Thanks Brian!
Quality content!
Glad you like it!
Alex Wegers book: Making tools is a good reference for making these kind of tools.
Awesome, I'll check it out! Thanks!
Nice knife. Great upcycling 😁
Upcycling is the way of the farmer! Big fan!
Nice old luthiers vise.....might want to look on tthe web about cryogenic metal treatment. It makes tools hold an edge much, much longer. Thanks
bigviking0001 that’s what we do with the heat treating for Lie-Nielsen blades. Too involved for a simple project like this I think.
You are sharp, April said so.
Hi Anne! Greeting from Belarus!
Greetings back!
I will try you box tool holder..I will make mine with auto coil spring also the big ones for bowls.I am learning a blacksmith want to be hobby
Nice video Anne! thanks for sharing it with us.😎👍JP
Thanks for watching JP!
You're very welcome Anne! 😎
wow, your spoon turned out nice! Hi by the way, I'm Roy's wife from the Christ Centered Ironworks channel :) I'm looking forward to see what else you come out with.
Oh hey Jess! Thanks for following along. I love spoon carving. Such a special thing to carve something that will bring so many people around the table.
Fantastic job, 👍
I wish there was more video of some of the processes... metal forging fascinates me, and I would love to see it done from the perspective of another non-expert....
...so I can avoid burning down my house.
fun tip: forge outside, and it is less likely you will burn down your house ;P
Or asphyxiate. :D
👍Ellerinize sağlık.
Fun video. What grade of drill rod are you using?
Drill rod is O1 toolsteel
Interesting. My supplier sells drill rod in A2 - D2 - M2 - M42- O1 and W1. I have also seen other sources with S7 - H13 and V44
A cute video🤗🤗
this is awesome ..willing to try this ..but where I am from....The will be way expensive ..
Anne, I do not have a forge furnace so will my little hand-held propane torch make enough heat to allow me to fashion some carving tools from tool steel or drill bits?
it's possible, though you might want to get a couple ceramic bricks to fashion into a little forge "area" to help hold the heat in better. It also depends on how thin of stock you are using, the smaller the knife, the easier it is to forge with less heat.
Enjoy your videos Anne, keep up the great work. When using sandpaper, start with coarser grit. I generally start with 120 grit and work up to 400 grit. Sometimes starting with 80 grit if necessary. This works for most jobs, and going beyond 400 grit is "icing on the cake" when you need your edges very sharp and classy looking. The problem encountered when people start with too fine (400 grit) is that the edges tend to get rounded because material is not being removed fast enough. Shaping the cutter needs to be done with coarse grit, then 400 and finer grits are only used to remove scratches left by the coarser grits.
Jim Manson good to know! Thanks!
What was the diameter of your drill rod?
That's a bad ass hoodie.. just sayin
looks like a nice open sweep.. How did it end up working out?
mslindqu I like it! I’ve made a few different shapes now, for specific purposes. As it turns out I really prefer a wider sweep
I highly agree, with a more closed sweep I just end up digging a hole to china.
Awesome video, love seeing new stuff come out on your channel. What diameter of drill rod are you starting with for these knives?
I think it's 1/8th", maybe 3/16". Doesn't really matter what you start with, you just plan your flattening and grinding according to what you want to end with :)
Awesome, really glad you're doing this series, girlfriend wants to start carving spoons and I want to start dabbling in smithing, so it's perfect! Thanks!
Hi Anne,
Great video, there is a whole series of videos on heat treating and tempering by "thatlazymachinest" another RUclipsr, He is very descriptive on how to get the right temperatures for different tempers. I usually send my heat treating out to the pros but after watching his videos I feel confident to heat treat some of my smaller parts using a torch.
Exactly why I didn’t include a whole section on it here, there’s lots of folks who know lots more about it than I do who have already posted fantastic info online.
Do you chew tobacco? At 5:22 you can see the roundness in the back pocket.
Absolutely not. It was my camera lens cap.
Where did you get that vise? Never seen one like it, love your vids. (You're havin fun aren't ya?)
Lee Barnhart it’s linked in the video notes ;) always lots of fun to be had round here.
Love the video
love the host 😉
How can I get the cute hat with your logo?
I'll be offering merch soon. Thanks so much!
and what kind of vice is that
It's linked below the video :)
👍👍👏👏
How do you like that stewmac guitar vise?
thisgoestoeleven I actually have a different brand, but it is a fantastic tool.
that's awesome, do you do any luthiery work? I'd love to see some videos on that if you do. Anyway, love your channel!
I'm hoping to build a mandolin soon.
Thanks for the advice, "Not-an-expert". I thought you name was Anne.
LOL
You kept saying "I'm not an expert".
Thomas Russell Hahahaha welllll, blade making can be a very divisive subject. Just wanted to have my bases covered 😉
i ALWAYS FORGET ABOUT DRILLBITS FOR STEEL... UGH
it would or might have been nice to actually see the whole process rather than jump shots
John-Albert Guy I don’t think very many people have enough patience to watch a 3 hour long video on a fairly simple process. My goal is to give just enough info to get folks started so they can practice on their own.
Anne is so damn cute that I just can't focus ahahah