It has been my experience that ten minutes at the anvil saves a half hour at the grinder. Would I change anything? No, you did everything exactly right, and you didn't leave a single hammer mark, without using a flatter! Beautifully done. Forge on!
This was a great, almost perfect, video for someone who is serious about making their first, forged knife for techniques, tools, and ...whoupzie...almost stole another channel's 'gig' (wasn't much anywho)... expectations of the build. Thanks TRE for the share.
@@SuperSteelSteve For dicing or mincing an onion I would absolutely agree. Chopping breaks prep into “bite sized” portions. Think roughly 3/4 inch to 1 inch square. The advantage this knife would have is that it would push the onion apart as it cuts and keep your workspace clear. The weight and geometry are doing the work. If you are chopping pounds of onions at a time this is a feature.
@@victorcallirgos3037 I have to disagree. As a professional chef of 17 years and a bladesmith of a few months i can tell you from experience and physics the thicker the geometry the more it wedges the harder it is to cut. Not sure what you mean by comparing mincing and "bite size pieces", because you have it backwards. Mincing herbs would actually not be effected by the thick geometry because herbs don't touch the primary grind, it's all about how sharp the edge is. What gives the best food release is a convex primary grind. This is why axes have convex grinds. They separate wood better. If you are cutting pounds of onions at a time (say 50 lb bags... of which ive literally done hundreds of times) a heavy thick knife is the exact opposite of what you want. You will get fatigued super fast from forcing your way through them. This knife is thick, roughly textured, and has no convex grind... it would not make a good kitchen knife. Excellent camp knife.
@@SuperSteelSteve Everything you said is right. I had a 25 year career in restaurants as well, I’ve cut plenty of those bags up too. But I went back to watch the video again and unfortunately I have to concede it would be too heavy for prolonged use. I always preferred a heavier knife but it comes down to physics as you say.
Looks great as always! One thing I’ve got to work on is getting my blade flat at forging, I can get it close but my anvil is not dead flat and I don’t have a 2x72 so I just use glass and sandpaper to get it closer to flat. You definitely got better hammer control than most!
I really like that shape, especially the drop point and the edge all the way to the heel. Of course, the fully-forged is 👍🏼👍🏼. I would use that knife every day.
I have brought several pieces of damatous steel blanks from a master Knifesmith and almost have my tooling made up and my skills to build a hunter blade and this is a Beaty. Tried your etching and haven't master that might be my sanding skills and not I've built a sanding vice hopefully it's going to up my game. Thanks Thanks for helping me and others.
@@theriversexperience9383 I know if you got a table full of knives and half are forged to finish and half a buffed shiny, 8 out of 10 people will pickup the forged to finished knives first.
Really cool. Love the profile and I concur on the forge finish ,it is tough as hell and will serve the knife well. Just my 2 cents I think a tapered tang would balance the knife out better. I've forged them in its not too difficult and the balance is amazing. Great work look forward to your next video.
Another cool one to watch! Of course ground bevels are nice and pristine, but that all-forged finish has some seriously cool character. Impressive how flat it is too!
Nice work love the finish. I just watched a video done by the works and he was forging his bevels by angling the work piece 15 degrees and matching the hammer with that angle on each blow. So I tried it myself cut forging time and clean up at the belt maybe something to try. You sound like me getting it close on the anvil so minimum effort to finish.
I'm 4th year Hobbyist BlackSmith and love it. But I'm trying to use the new steel and it's a different challenge and enjoy both ways. I'm hopeful you're going to tell me where you're getting your 1X30 " belts. I'm thinking building my second ribbon burner then want to try a knife that doesn't have much grinding involved. Thanks for helping me and others
@The Rivers' Experience when my son gets out of the Marines he wants to start a gun shop and forge. I'll try anything but you guys are artists. We'll see how it goes
Its hard to do, so for a number 2 its really quite good. Might be worth picking up a Flatter at some point as it just planishes everything very smoothly and might give you a little bit more control. I'm also not looking at the big lump of 1045 in the corner of my shed that I was going to make a Flatter out of and managed to find something more important to do for about the last month... one day though!
I actually re-did a Flatter a little bit ago on the channel. I just need a 2nd pair of hands to use it, but I might make a stand for it. We will see how that goes.
Only 1 criticism/suggestion! Nitrile Gloves ? $11.98 box of 50 homedepot!! - other than that, another solid well made & good looking Knife .. and good video … keep up the good work ..
The funny thing is that I have 4 boxes of them 🤣. For some reason I decided to go all natural on this one. Gloves would have been a better idea though.
Love the profile and fact u don't know where you are going beforehand. I use purpleheart and zebra wood on my knives. That profile and combo field/cutlery form rox. Hate the finish....I hate scale after heat treating so just don't like that look......it's only me I guess....but the fact u are owning it is awesome. Keep up these builds. They are awesome .......if only I was 15 or more years younger I'd get into forging.
It has been my experience that ten minutes at the anvil saves a half hour at the grinder. Would I change anything? No, you did everything exactly right, and you didn't leave a single hammer mark, without using a flatter! Beautifully done. Forge on!
This was a great, almost perfect, video for someone who is serious about making their first, forged knife for techniques, tools, and ...whoupzie...almost stole another channel's 'gig' (wasn't much anywho)... expectations of the build. Thanks TRE for the share.
Thank Byron! Glad you liked it.
Muscle Memory is only achieved through repetition and practice. You are spot on in learning your craft.
Awesome 👏
Well done my friend...excellent hammer skills and also loved how you used multiple parts of the anvil.
Thank you Jeffrey!
Improvement from the last one
This would be one BA chef knife. Fine enough for slicing, beefy enough for chopping, I bet the finish would even help with food release.
Thank you! I agree with everything that you said.
It's a great knife, but you don't need a knife to be "beefy" to chop onions.
The opposite actually.
@@SuperSteelSteve For dicing or mincing an onion I would absolutely agree. Chopping breaks prep into “bite sized” portions. Think roughly 3/4 inch to 1 inch square. The advantage this knife would have is that it would push the onion apart as it cuts and keep your workspace clear. The weight and geometry are doing the work. If you are chopping pounds of onions at a time this is a feature.
@@victorcallirgos3037 I have to disagree.
As a professional chef of 17 years and a bladesmith of a few months i can tell you from experience and physics the thicker the geometry the more it wedges the harder it is to cut.
Not sure what you mean by comparing mincing and "bite size pieces", because you have it backwards.
Mincing herbs would actually not be effected by the thick geometry because herbs don't touch the primary grind, it's all about how sharp the edge is.
What gives the best food release is a convex primary grind.
This is why axes have convex grinds. They separate wood better.
If you are cutting pounds of onions at a time (say 50 lb bags... of which ive literally done hundreds of times) a heavy thick knife is the exact opposite of what you want. You will get fatigued super fast from forcing your way through them.
This knife is thick, roughly textured, and has no convex grind... it would not make a good kitchen knife.
Excellent camp knife.
@@SuperSteelSteve Everything you said is right. I had a 25 year career in restaurants as well, I’ve cut plenty of those bags up too. But I went back to watch the video again and unfortunately I have to concede it would be too heavy for prolonged use. I always preferred a heavier knife but it comes down to physics as you say.
I like the Finnish on the blade it looks really cool
Thank you!
Nicely done! I need to practice the forge to finish process myself to see if I can do it. Thanks for the video, I look forward to the next one.
Thank you Rob, I think it's a good skill to have under your belt.
really nice build, really clean piece of forging, well done
Thank you!
Amazing forging outstanding
Video Eric very informative 👍🤙👏
Thanks You! 👍
Looks great as always! One thing I’ve got to work on is getting my blade flat at forging, I can get it close but my anvil is not dead flat and I don’t have a 2x72 so I just use glass and sandpaper to get it closer to flat. You definitely got better hammer control than most!
Thank you Nick!
Now THAT is how you forge a blade.
Thank you!
Another awesome build. 👌👏👏
Thank you Odacir! 😃
Another stunning knife. I like the rough finnish 👍
Thank you! I do too.
That's a beautiful knife! Forge scale finish is my thing, so I'll never ask you to make shiny bevels.
Thank you Jim!
Man you did it again that’s awesome !!!!!
Thank you!
I really like that shape, especially the drop point and the edge all the way to the heel. Of course, the fully-forged is 👍🏼👍🏼.
I would use that knife every day.
Thank you John!
Beautiful looking knife. Really great video.
Thank you!
I have brought several pieces of damatous steel blanks from a master Knifesmith and almost have my tooling made up and my skills to build a hunter blade and this is a Beaty.
Tried your etching and haven't master that might be my sanding skills and not I've built a sanding vice hopefully it's going to up my game.
Thanks
Thanks for helping me and others.
Thank you John!
I like the forged to finish look.
Me too, I think it definitely makes for a unique and rustic look.
@@theriversexperience9383 I know if you got a table full of knives and half are forged to finish and half a buffed shiny, 8 out of 10 people will pickup the forged to finished knives first.
That’s a good looking knife 👌You did a very good forging job 👍I love the design a lot ❤️a really cool knife
🍀🙏😎🙏🍀
Thank you for the kind words as always Klaus!
Really cool. Love the profile and I concur on the forge finish ,it is tough as hell and will serve the knife well. Just my 2 cents I think a tapered tang would balance the knife out better. I've forged them in its not too difficult and the balance is amazing. Great work look forward to your next video.
Yup, I agree on the tapered tang. Next week's knife gets that. Kinda stepping up in difficulty as we go.
Really like that profile and the forged texture is the bomb ! Another beautiful knife Erick !
Thank you Steven!
Another cool one to watch! Of course ground bevels are nice and pristine, but that all-forged finish has some seriously cool character. Impressive how flat it is too!
Thank you Cory, this series is definitely one of the most satisfying series that I've done.
Excellent build, like the blade shape Your forging looks great. Job well done.
Thank you!
Killer work! Been following you for a while, figured I should comment to help the algorithm. lol
Thank you Brandon, I appreciate that.
Nice profile! Awesome forging 👍
Thanks Don! 👍
Awesome hammered bevels. I don’t like shinny so I’m all in on this build. The character it has is right on. Very knice work brother.
Thank you Jim, I really like this finish as well.
Nice work love the finish. I just watched a video done by the works and he was forging his bevels by angling the work piece 15 degrees and matching the hammer with that angle on each blow. So I tried it myself cut forging time and clean up at the belt maybe something to try. You sound like me getting it close on the anvil so minimum effort to finish.
Yup, I'll try that out. Always into trying new ways of doing things especially at this point in the forging process.
Awesome job. I totally lmao at your epoxy mess 🤣 😂
Dude, I should have worn gloves lol. That stuff was all over my hands 🤣
Another beautiful blade, love the forge texture and that profile. Nice!!
Thank you Jeff!
Bonito trabajo artesanal amigo saludos y bendiciones
I'm 4th year Hobbyist BlackSmith and love it. But I'm trying to use the new steel and it's a different challenge and enjoy both ways.
I'm hopeful you're going to tell me where you're getting your 1X30 " belts.
I'm thinking building my second ribbon burner then want to try a knife that doesn't have much grinding involved.
Thanks for helping me and others
I get a lot of the normal grit belt for the 1x30 from Amazon. When it comes to the high grit sharpening ones, I get those from Pro Sharpening Supply.
Will do...thanks
I wish I could download your intro for my ring tone
When I get back home I'll let you know the exact song but it's by Joakim Karud.
Nice job. Looks like it would be an awesome fighting knife with a tomahawk
Thank you Francis!
@The Rivers' Experience when my son gets out of the Marines he wants to start a gun shop and forge. I'll try anything but you guys are artists. We'll see how it goes
While practicing your forging skills, what if you made some kitchen knives? Like a set of knives. Different shapes, etc to practice while forging.
I'll be making a few sets of knives once I'm closer to finishing this series.
Its hard to do, so for a number 2 its really quite good. Might be worth picking up a Flatter at some point as it just planishes everything very smoothly and might give you a little bit more control.
I'm also not looking at the big lump of 1045 in the corner of my shed that I was going to make a Flatter out of and managed to find something more important to do for about the last month... one day though!
I actually re-did a Flatter a little bit ago on the channel. I just need a 2nd pair of hands to use it, but I might make a stand for it. We will see how that goes.
Only 1 criticism/suggestion! Nitrile Gloves ? $11.98 box of 50 homedepot!! - other than that, another solid well made & good looking Knife .. and good video … keep up the good work ..
The funny thing is that I have 4 boxes of them 🤣. For some reason I decided to go all natural on this one. Gloves would have been a better idea though.
Love the profile and fact u don't know where you are going beforehand.
I use purpleheart and zebra wood on my knives.
That profile and combo field/cutlery form rox.
Hate the finish....I hate scale after heat treating so just don't like that look......it's only me I guess....but the fact u are owning it is awesome.
Keep up these builds. They are awesome .......if only I was 15 or more years younger I'd get into forging.
Thank you! Yeah, the forged finish definitely isn't for everyone. I do like this chef/camp knife style as well.
Great knife! How long did it take you to forge it start to finish. ( just the blade) ? Thanks for sharing.
The blade took a little about 2 hours (that includes the time heating in the forge). Hopefully I'll get it down to around an hour.
👍🏼👍🏼
What is the thickness of the stock you started with?
It was 1/4" when I started.
What kind of wood is that?
It's called Zebra Wood.