JFAK 11 - (W COMMENTARY) Forging a 1075 Fixed Blade
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- No talking. Just Forging a Knife. JFAK 11 Forging a 1075 Fixed Blade w special attention to squaring the heal. To see the JFAK 10 knife at the beginning of this video being forged go to: • JFAK 10 - Forging a 10...
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I like forging profile and distal taper. Thanks for sharing your process. I am a lot like you, learning everything without in-person mentorship. Watching you learn as you go like I have been doing is reassuring. Your videos are always enjoyable to watch. Thanks!
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Good stuff as always! My favorite part is shmacking things into a shape you've come up with. The way it feels to shape something with a hammer.. magical.
Indeed, well said
The majority of craftsmanship it taking a material and making something, typically straight, out of it. You’re awesome buddy. Thank you.
I love it! I've been watching you make knives for years, and it's amazing how you've improved upon your finishing skills.🤘
so good!! love seeing these videos as always. would there be any use to initiating the finger choil and ricasso area before fully drawing out the heel? more of a knife maker less of a blacksmith but it seems like it might help push that material over before the heel then clamp it tip down in a vice and cross peen that finger choil to really nail the shape. thanks!
Great thought
Thanks for the vid GB, love watching you forge!
I love forging in the tip and tang transition the most, then the tang (because now it looks like a knife), followed by the profile, bevels and lastly the distal taper. 🙂
My favorite part is definitely forging the overall profile of the blade. I love drawing out a piece of steel into a new and useful shape.
Nice work. Yeah any job I do usually starts out ok-ish, goes through a steep period of oh my god I've screwed this up, then slowly climbs back out to be a half decent job. I've never forged a blade, I'm increasingly interested in trying though.
Great narration as always and it was good to see your award wining guns at work again.
Really beautiful work, Steve! 😃
My favorite part? Watching it! 😬
Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Thank you very much!
What you said about how you'd expect to work more deliberately was really interesting because I've felt that way about hobbies I've been practicing for a long time. Most of the time I just wing it and it ends up working out, but others practicing my hobbies seem to have a methodical approach. Good to hear other people experience the same thing.
By the way, you're really good at organically encouraging engagement without scummy RUclipsr shit like begging for emojis to be left in the comments.
The Beetle is back! 🙏👍
My process is to do the hidden tang first. I have some good tongs for holding a hidden tang (I see that you don't). The biggest problem with this is guessing how much material to keep or cut off for the blade.
I like forging the set down for the choil. You spend all this time getting stuff prepped and that is a step that REALLY makes major changes to the way everything looks.
After all these years I still appreciate your channel, I know reimbursement is awful (sorry I never managed to get you a corporate sponsorship). Stay well!
Ty brother
It doesnt matter if you have "formal"training or not you make some of the most beautiful knives ive seen. Dont think of them just falling into place consider them happy lil accidents
Profile of the blade is by-far the most fun…bevels but least favorite is keeping everything in check, especially width of the edge in relation to the spine while keeping it straight! Tangs are just boring but not a hardship
Profile, handle, bevels, straightening
For me the tang is my favorite. Especially on a blacksmith blade. Everything about forging I love though.
there is something pleasant about the integral handle of a blacksmith's or viking untility knife
Favorite - 1:Forging the general shape, 2: Tip 3: Tang, 4: Bevels, 5: Straightening over and over and over
Ha! yes the straightening
Profiling is probably my favorite. Fine tuning is my least fav because I struggle with over forging. Ive found that hard clamping the bright red blade between two fresh pieces of 2x4 works miracles at straightening everything out. I highly recommend trying it
I might try it sounds like a great technique
If I may suggest, if the knife is long enough, forge the heal before you forge the point. That way as you're cleaning up the heel, you can drive back into it from the front. Also, start with bar stock that is at least 1/4 inch taller than your desired final ricasso height. That also gives you room to clean up the heel by either half-on from the top or with hardie tool or whatever. If you forge the heel first, just be careful not to mangle it when forging the point.
Favorite is seeing what the steel wants to become, least favorite is definitely getting out curves.
tangs are why I make full tang knives.... I don't nmake knives much but edge tools the tip (especially for billhooks) then the bevels (Scythes and sickles are amazingly challenging ) then the spine ...I don't enjoy making the spine on a sickle even
then the tang ...just icky although I do like forging in the tenon for threading a nut onto my kindling chopper and sickle handles (partly because very few people believe I can forge accurately enough to thread straight from forged)
cool kitchen knife
Forging overall profile, then finishing to final shape before grinding.
Looks good. Hate forging the ricasso/tang area especially if there is a guard which there generally is.
Nice work dude
I don't do enough forging to ever get very good at it, so if its straight and flat then its considered a great success
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The way I forge a hearty heel is to first figure out where the ricasso is going to be. I heat the bar, hang the blade portion off the anvil, and beat straight down in the bar, kind of driving the edge of the anvil up the width of it until I get down to my desired ricasso width. It not only gives me a decent start on the handle, but also isolates the material for the heel in a way that really helps me control where the material moves. Doing it while the bar is still the same width in front of and behind the heel just gives the metal too many directions it can go and this kind of helps eliminate one path. If the material starts to try to move backwards, then I can just stand it up straight and beat it down, or hang it back over the edge and hit the other end of the bar to drive it back to a 90 degree angle. You can also do it on the horn in a similar way if you want a heel that curves around the front finger a bit, depending on the handle style. I'm certainly not a master smith or anything, but I hope that made sense.
Nice I’ll have to try this!
Favorite for me is just the general shaping of it. Getting the overall profile of the blade. Agree on tang. It’s no fun.
my favorite part of forging the knife is when I get a really thin blade and it doesn't warp in the quench.
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STEVE!
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steeeeeeeeeeeve
Haven’t even watched yet, but I’m going to go ahead and get this out of the way for everyone “OMG, why is it not ASMR?! My child brain needs stimulated! Why do you hate us GB?”
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I don't know where you live, but I am sure there are some local knife makers that would love to get together and share some tips.