As someone who, while having no experience with actual smithing, is interested in how medieval weapons were smithed, right off the bat I'd have recommended 2 things, though as I'm not an actual expert take these with a grain of salt. 1. hammer the entire piece of metal into a long strip, folded it on itself, repeated a few times, and then worked on the blade itself so as to remove any impurities or imperfections in the metal itself and 2. switched the sides being hammered more often so as to help make it straighter. I'll add on to this comment as I keep watching. 4:00 while I understand that you like the look, what you just did was introduce structural weaknesses into the blade, meaning that in actual use it would be easier to snap due to these ridges interfering with the way force would be transferred through the back of the blade. as a good advice, try to avoid cutting into parts of the blade that are likely to be put under a lot of stress when you're, for example, chopping through branches. In this particular use case, it wouldn't snap immediately, and the ridges aren't very deep either, but the blade would degrade due to wear and tear much faster. 6:00 I saw it earlier but I'll talk about it now, ONLY strike the metal while it is at least red hot, trying to hammer it like that when it is too cold is just going to damage it structurally. You need the metal to be hot enough to fuse to itself, otherwise you'll end up with microscopic cracks going through the knife. It's the same how if you keep bending a piece of metal over and over, it'll eventually snap, except you're weakening something that is very dependent on how resilient it is. it's not armour, which you could hammer into shape cold, but a blade. 8:26 Not actually an issue, but advice for if you decide to make more knives, you can give the blade a somewhat triangular profile if it's single edged, might be easier to hammer out for a beginner while also being something that was done with both single edged knives and some swords. 11:00 You really should've heat treated the handle too so that it is not brittle, so next time remember to find a taller container for the oil Overall, to my eye this looks like an excellent knife for someone with no experience at all. If you ever want to look up some smithing techniques, then the show Forged in Fire as well as smithing channels like AWE me and his Man At Arms: Reforged are good places to use as reference if you've not seen them before
@@sebastianbronowicki7073 Thank you for taking the time to write this comment. It will probably be a while before I give forging another try but when I do I will definitely return to this comment.
As someone who, while having no experience with actual smithing, is interested in how medieval weapons were smithed, right off the bat I'd have recommended 2 things, though as I'm not an actual expert take these with a grain of salt. 1. hammer the entire piece of metal into a long strip, folded it on itself, repeated a few times, and then worked on the blade itself so as to remove any impurities or imperfections in the metal itself and 2. switched the sides being hammered more often so as to help make it straighter. I'll add on to this comment as I keep watching.
4:00 while I understand that you like the look, what you just did was introduce structural weaknesses into the blade, meaning that in actual use it would be easier to snap due to these ridges interfering with the way force would be transferred through the back of the blade. as a good advice, try to avoid cutting into parts of the blade that are likely to be put under a lot of stress when you're, for example, chopping through branches. In this particular use case, it wouldn't snap immediately, and the ridges aren't very deep either, but the blade would degrade due to wear and tear much faster.
6:00 I saw it earlier but I'll talk about it now, ONLY strike the metal while it is at least red hot, trying to hammer it like that when it is too cold is just going to damage it structurally. You need the metal to be hot enough to fuse to itself, otherwise you'll end up with microscopic cracks going through the knife. It's the same how if you keep bending a piece of metal over and over, it'll eventually snap, except you're weakening something that is very dependent on how resilient it is. it's not armour, which you could hammer into shape cold, but a blade.
8:26 Not actually an issue, but advice for if you decide to make more knives, you can give the blade a somewhat triangular profile if it's single edged, might be easier to hammer out for a beginner while also being something that was done with both single edged knives and some swords.
11:00 You really should've heat treated the handle too so that it is not brittle, so next time remember to find a taller container for the oil
Overall, to my eye this looks like an excellent knife for someone with no experience at all. If you ever want to look up some smithing techniques, then the show Forged in Fire as well as smithing channels like AWE me and his Man At Arms: Reforged are good places to use as reference if you've not seen them before
@@sebastianbronowicki7073 Thank you for taking the time to write this comment. It will probably be a while before I give forging another try but when I do I will definitely return to this comment.
next time take a old file that is much better steel