I've come to a point where any forging I do is light hehe.. might take a while but I get there. I've found if you forge too thin your edge ends up like bacon after a quench. I typically don't go smaller than about 0.06" for my edge and that has done pretty well for me. Keep on man!
Nice work mate! As you probably remember I forge fairly thin for a lot of my work, you're right that certain steels are best. 52100 is a no go for super thin, I find low alloy shallow hardening steels the best for it, like W2, 1095, 1084 etc. It's not necessary to do, but it is fun, and a great challenge :) Keep up the great content!
Still a beginner blacksmith, but have been trying out forging a the bevels super thin then griding it back some and so far its been working for me. tho to be honest i have only done this 5 times with them all being chef knives, would say all of them were pretty hard (made with 125cr1) but i did quench them at pretty low heats
Beautiful knife, Steve! Amazing work! 😃 Happy new freaking year! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊 BTW, December 27th I fell pretty ugly... And funny as heck, probably... And hurt my chest muscle. Damn, what an unbelievable pain... But I'm almost free of it now. And I hope you get better soon!
This is why i like starting with thicker steel and drawing it out for kitchen knives. About 5-6mm, forge in the point and shoulders, then draw the blade out and add bevels. I'm able to get 2-3mm at the spine this way. Using a fly press for drawing out, would be a work out with a hammer I'm also not concerned about decarb on the sides, only the centre needs to be hard and i do forged finishes anyway.
Nice blade! Have you considered adding the commentary as a separate audio track option on upload instead of uploading 2 separate videos? I feel like it would help the algorithm to just have a single video with all the views.
i had issues using a flatter when i first started too. after awhile i just started hitting the flatter harder and yes i have broken a flatter before. now i hit it hard but not so hard that it breaks it.
Yeah you are going to have to actually stop doing anything too heavy with the bung shoulder. It takes time to heal, especially as you get older. The shape of that knife turned out real nice. The bending would have broken me.
Shoulder injuries take time to heal, do it right. I always enjoy you videos, thanks.
Great vid
Take care. Have a great year.
Make sure you let your shoulder heal - we can wait.
Health comes first :)
I've come to a point where any forging I do is light hehe.. might take a while but I get there. I've found if you forge too thin your edge ends up like bacon after a quench. I typically don't go smaller than about 0.06" for my edge and that has done pretty well for me. Keep on man!
Nice work mate! As you probably remember I forge fairly thin for a lot of my work, you're right that certain steels are best. 52100 is a no go for super thin, I find low alloy shallow hardening steels the best for it, like W2, 1095, 1084 etc. It's not necessary to do, but it is fun, and a great challenge :)
Keep up the great content!
Ty for the insight, brother!
Still a beginner blacksmith, but have been trying out forging a the bevels super thin then griding it back some and so far its been working for me. tho to be honest i have only done this 5 times with them all being chef knives, would say all of them were pretty hard (made with 125cr1) but i did quench them at pretty low heats
Beautiful knife, Steve! Amazing work! 😃
Happy new freaking year!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
BTW, December 27th I fell pretty ugly... And funny as heck, probably... And hurt my chest muscle. Damn, what an unbelievable pain... But I'm almost free of it now. And I hope you get better soon!
I’m glad you’re recovering 👍
This is why i like starting with thicker steel and drawing it out for kitchen knives. About 5-6mm, forge in the point and shoulders, then draw the blade out and add bevels. I'm able to get 2-3mm at the spine this way. Using a fly press for drawing out, would be a work out with a hammer
I'm also not concerned about decarb on the sides, only the centre needs to be hard and i do forged finishes anyway.
Let that injury heal man, take it real slow.
Nice blade! Have you considered adding the commentary as a separate audio track option on upload instead of uploading 2 separate videos? I feel like it would help the algorithm to just have a single video with all the views.
Ooooh wait you can do this?
i had issues using a flatter when i first started too. after awhile i just started hitting the flatter harder and yes i have broken a flatter before. now i hit it hard but not so hard that it breaks it.
WOW
Have you forged with magnasteel yet?
Magnate? I have a bar now staring at me.
Yeah you are going to have to actually stop doing anything too heavy with the bung shoulder. It takes time to heal, especially as you get older. The shape of that knife turned out real nice. The bending would have broken me.