I always respect craftsmen who share their knowledge as opposed to those who will not tell you a thing. Great video, clear, concise, articulate and easy to follow.
Walter. Your videos are some of the best out there in any genre . They really stand out. An expert bladesmith willing to take the mystery out of knife making for beginners and is effective of a teacher as you are is a precious commodity. 100% no B.S., usable information. Thank You.
Walter I appreciate these videos more than you'll ever know. I'm working on my third knife today and thanks to you I've learned the basics of everything I need to know.
Ok Im 10mins into this video and im subbed and +1. You are extremely well educated and you can make a knife out any piece of metal you find within walking distance of your house. Colour me officially impressed.
Hey Walter, wanted to throw you a huge thank you and say how inspired I was by this video, the cord wrapped tactical knife. For the record, I am a chef, 35 years so, as well, I have been brewing my own beer as an award winning home brewer for the past 6 years. I am not tooting my horn here, but for anyone who is reading this I wanted to say your tutorials on how to make this knife, as well as some of your past ones on equipment have yielded me the perfect birthday present for my daughter who is turning 21 this 22nd of May. She is an avid outdoors woman, hiker, climber etc. and since I cant be there to protect her, I figured this would be a great time to try my hand at knife making and give her a gift that will keep on giving. Would love to send you the finished work in a really short clip so I can get your personal critique as I think this could be something I want to pursue more and more. I will say however I am not making anymore knives until my thumbs heal form the sanding, grinding, wet sanding, etc. etc. Again Walter, thank you, the channel is fricking awesome!!!
Hi Walter, greetings from Czech Republic (central europe region). You are probably the man who changed my mind from just collecting knives to make knives on my own. Thank you very much so far I've made one throwing knife no scales - shape like dagger from springsteel using file jig from Gough. In about a month I'll start with grinding on custom and powerfull belt grinder. Keep a good work!
Thanks for the video....i really appreciate you not only showing the various methods but also pointing out reasons why you have to do things like heat treating and tempering
As always, great video. Like to say your videos got my nose out of the phone and off the couch to the garage and started filing. Your videos are just a tap away if I need help. Thank you for your time and knowledge.
A buddy of mine got me into this hobby. Me and him worked on a couple knives together. Im pretty knew and havent started my own knife just yet but i plan on making a tanto blade or hunters knife with a black and green paracord wrap. Not a big blade maybe 3-4 inches max. Cant wait though. And i almoat forgot, i live in souther alabama. And its summer. The average temperature is 95 degrees, we were in jeans, boots, welding jackts, masks, and gloves. We both took welding so we cut stuff that way, unless its too small to cut. So its hot in the shed with humidity the heat index is usually in the 100's. We were out there sweating, hot, getting cut and getting minor burns. Felt miserable due to the heat but we loved making the knives. Best feeling ever was when people asked us where we got em and tell them that they're handmade
Walter, Love your videos. I am an avid knife maker from way back and admire your skills. I would be ashamed to show you the best of my work but they are tough and effective. I never buy knives, I just study the design and make a copy for my own enjoyment. If it breaks, and that is rare, I can make another. On another note, I think you got a raw deal on "Forged in Fire." Had they tried less to make the challenge look silly, you would have had the chance to showcase your work. You would have likely won the title. Nevertheless, your fans know who is the real champion. It is rare that I send out a kudos in knife-making videos but felt compelled to share my appreciation for your work and willingness to share your knowledge with your fan base. Great work, keep it up. Much respect.
Paracord is the #1 knife handle material. Period. It requires no tools, no chemicals, no glues, sanding, pins; has a rapid learning curve (you can learn a Whip Knot in about five minutes that can put a handle on just about anything); lasts for decades or a lifetime if you take care of it; myriad of colors; inexpensive; good grip; creative; solid; tough (I broke the wood handle on my Green River Hunter while camping in 2008, wood-glued and Whip-Knotted it back together. That same knot of black 550 Paracord has been through hell and hasn't budged. Still performs 100% in late 2023. Many of my house knives and outdoor knives are paracord for more than a decade now. Needs no replacing or fixing. I even put mine through the dishwasher. All the pretty, expensive collector knife stuff is cool, but knives are only as good as their edge, as far as I'm concerned. I put mine through a lot of hard use. I build them and sheath them. I keep it simple, practical and handy. Paracord works, every time.
My initial impression of you was that you really seem to know your stuff inside and out and you're a stand up guy for giving up so much of your free time to pass along these lessons to new knife makers like myself.Well, after hearing your suggestion for acvtivities during tempering, I now know I was correct. Go Tighers!! Big thanks and thumbs up to you from the upstate. Still have a few weeks before kickoff so while i'm tempering in the oven for now I'll just start pracricing saying DJ's last name. With a little luck it will be rolling off the tounge by the time we line up against jawja. And maybe I'll even have a few new knives. Thanks again and Go Tigers!!
When I heard you say"beginer using tools that don't cost the world OR more experienced users with more expensive tools" made me watch the whole video. Great content brother
Hi Walter Sorrells Rick from Australia here. Just stumbled upon your video by accident and only 6.09minutes in And well done New Subscriber from OZ Cheers Mate
Thank you very much, this has been very interesting and informative to the point in the near future I'd like to make my own knife. Looking forward to also watch and learn more about this art.thank you again Walter.
I made this knife on Saturday. No special tools. I did some of the cutting with a cutoff disk on my dremel tool. The rest was filing with my double cut bastard. Heat treating in chiminea with blow dryer pumping through guttering and quenched in used motor oil. It was my first knife, and I'm happy with the outcome! Kenny can suck it.
Best knife making video on RUclips at this time. I enjoyed the commentary. Well done sir. However I will be supporting the Buckeyes during my down time.
really good video! you explain it understandable and quite easy even for people without english as first language. will try it the old fashioned way soon.
Walter, thank you very much for the tutorial guide, it is really easy to understand and nice to watch, cheers from Brazil! I will try to begin and do my own knife! thank you!!
+Dalton Hallett +Walter Sorrells Also for us non-native speakers that would be an easy mistake to make. But what oil did he use? It says "3-in-one all purpose oil" on the bottle, but what is that more specifically? Any recommendations?
Walter Sorrells Thanks for getting back to me. I ordered some knife steel and will try this project soon. It might take time (being a busy father and all) but I'll get back with my progress. Thanks for sharing these great tutorials. I admire your professional and humble attitude.
thank you so much for this video I am set on making a knife but everywhere I look all I see is tutorials which require expensive equipment this is the only one which only requires simple tools
At 14:04 Sweet! Amazing how the right steel/quenchant allows for differential hardening with no need for claying or anything, just because the thinner edge area cools quicker. Really cool stuff!
Angelo Silva You dont need a clay,you can simply harden everything and then put a knife half way in the water so only edge stays submerged and heat the spine with a blow torch to release the hardness.
+zumbazumba1 Actually, here this was achieved simply through the cooling rate and edge thickness as the blade was plunged vertically into the oil rather than edge quenched as you mentioned but edge quenching with the blow torch seems to be the trick for steels that are supposed to through harden like D2. 1095 just seems to be in that sweet spot where you can quench it whole but if the heat and bevels are just right you can end up with a hamon. Might be annoying when you want it through hardened now t that I think about it...
At around 17:15, when you start the paracord wrap process, you have your blade horizontally in the vice. Wouldn't it be easier if you had the blade vertically so you just needed to move from side to side yourself instead of having to keep flipping the blade? If I'm wrong please correct me. Otherwise thank you for taking the time to make the video.
Thank for making these for the beginners, I'm trying to learn to make some for my friends and family for birthday presents. Most of us are hunters and so hopefully I can successfully give them gifts that they actually appreciate! :)
@2:58, - NJ Steel Baron. You are buying real product from a real person and I was completely impressed with this man at the Blade Show. It was like I was talking to a guy I knew for years when I met him. But then again I grew up in Jersey.
at 8:15 I noticed discoloration at the tip I'm glad to see you left it there because it shows the side affects at the belt sander and heat possibly hardening that spot
+dan rasmussen Any belt grinder heat prior to heat treating won't bother the final product in any significant way. You could turn the whole thing red hot...if you hold onto it! -- and it wouldn't hurt anything. After heat treating, though, you have to be much more careful about your heat build-up from grinding. If the heat builds up high enough to cause blue discoloration like this, it's a sign that you've decreased the hardness of the knife in that spot.
I've stumbled on knife making videos and found them very interesting as a hobby. That said I can't see anyone saving money by doing their own knifes. I mean for 20 to 40$ there are plenty of good knifes around.
you arent saving money but the process of making one is fun and really rewarding and if you do it right it's better then those 20 - 40 euro knives and you made it yourself and that's priceless
Fair enough and I know the pleasure that comes from making your own stuff. But if the steel on that file is not great then the knife won't be great either. Besides, personally I work freelance and am fortunate to have a work where 3 billed hours are enough to buy a top quality knife or about 10 Moras. I might make a knife someday as it's interesting and I think I'd enjoy the experience.
Really awesome step by step instruction and the knife looks really nice in the end ... I though you would skeletonize the grip and then somehow wrap the cord through it but this one is easier ... I think I´ll made one like that, but smaller :)
I personally prefer to polish my knives for rust prevention. Glad you mention hard Arkansas stones. Been using those for gunsmithing for about 5 years now; it polishes/smoothes the surface while removing very little material.
one nice "rough coat" i use sometimes is to leave some of the rapeseed oil from hardening on there to get a black (cind of rust resistant) coating on the blade that can look kind of cool after a while. just go over it a bit with some scotch brite to get the biggest particles of the blade and leave the rest.
Appreciate the effort you put into your vids Walter. They're very informative, and your willingness to share your experience shows through at every stage. Thank you! I have ordered a basic file set (per your recommendations) and am going to attempt my first knife soon. On a side note, I'm not from the US, and don't have access to a variety of steels. I'm contemplating having it shipped to me an expensive and cumbersome effort to say the least), but also have come across suggestions of using the steel off leaf springs. Is this something you would ok for a beginner to get a passable end product? Or would I be wasting my time with it? Thanks again for the time you put into these, cheers!
Older American cars have high carbon steel springs. 1095 and 5160 are both considered old American spring steels. Your country undoubtedly has equivilant standards.
As a beginner blacksmith/bladesmith I find videos like this incredibly helpful. As a historical weapons enthusiast, I have to disagree with what you said about how bevells were done in the darkages and prior, in those days they were actually forged in, by getting the metal red to yellow hot and while holding it at a write angle to the anvil and string with the near side of the hammer to force the metal into the appropriate shape then flipping it and repeating to make it even.
Fossilized mastadon.... Haha! That one thing I love about your videos... You always throw something random and ridiculous in your explanations. Keep them coming!
Awesome video as always, but I have to point out that when you quench steel you convert austenite to martensite, not ferrite and pearlite to martensite like you said at 13:39. Anyway enough with the bitching, a handle from paracord wrap is definitely a cheap and easy alternative, but it can look very cool if done properly.
When quenching, (13:30), do NOT move the blade from side to side like he is doing in the video. Move it backwards and forwards in a slicing motion or upwards and downwards. This will keep the blade from being cooled differently on either side, and should reduce chance of warping
+Beardsley McBeard there are allot of blades out there with thos ekinds of handles,i dont really like the look of it,regular goat or buck horns look allot better on blades especially if their are going to be hunting or chopping blades show pieces are another topic altogether but thats were most mastadon and mammoth ivory comes into play
Great video! You're the reason I'm getting into knife making. I do have one question about this, though. Do you anneal steel before you cut it to length or is that only if you don't get it from a mill or something? In the series in which you make a knife from a file you annealed it but not here. I just don't want to trash a hacksaw I could have saved.
It's easier to build a $100 belt grinder than to waste all your time with files. Files are great for finishing work, but for me, it literally took a week to build a belt grinder for $100. I now save hours and hours and make better quality knives than before. It's amazing what you can do with a belt grinder.
dude great video, especially liked the Clemson reference! as a Duke fan ill be watching them, but I always keep an eye on the tigers as well. I hope they beat the he'll outta the tide this year!
I always respect craftsmen who share their knowledge as opposed to those who will not tell you a thing. Great video, clear, concise, articulate and easy to follow.
Thank you for taking time out of your day to show us newbies how to do this for free. I appreciate your videos!
G23 lol not for free he makes money ever vid
Not for free buddy, he makes money off of sponsors, ads, his website, his store etc...
@@tristy-popstheman7622 did u pay him to watch it, no, therfore its free
@@bash6555indeed but we, the viewers get the info for free.
Walter. Your videos are some of the best out there in any genre . They really stand out. An expert bladesmith willing to take the mystery out of knife making for beginners and is effective of a teacher as you are is a precious commodity. 100% no B.S., usable information. Thank You.
Walter I appreciate these videos more than you'll ever know. I'm working on my third knife today and thanks to you I've learned the basics of everything I need to know.
Me too, now I know where to purchase a tactical knife so that I can protect myself from all the hazards of life. Oh hell yeah.
Walter, awesome work. Love the high production value and clear information. Will be making my first knife very soon.
Woah it’s John I found you from seths channel a while back im finishing my first knife now how did yours go
@@robertruggiano748 nice! I never actually got around to making one, still on my to do list!
Love this guy. Full of knowledge yet in layman's terms with a bit of comedy injected. You the man Walter :)
Ok Im 10mins into this video and im subbed and +1. You are extremely well educated and you can make a knife out any piece of metal you find within walking distance of your house. Colour me officially impressed.
You're a good teacher; very encouraging and humorous.
Hey Walter, wanted to throw you a huge thank you and say how inspired I was by this video, the cord wrapped tactical knife. For the record, I am a chef, 35 years so, as well, I have been brewing my own beer as an award winning home brewer for the past 6 years. I am not tooting my horn here, but for anyone who is reading this I wanted to say your tutorials on how to make this knife, as well as some of your past ones on equipment have yielded me the perfect birthday present for my daughter who is turning 21 this 22nd of May. She is an avid outdoors woman, hiker, climber etc. and since I cant be there to protect her, I figured this would be a great time to try my hand at knife making and give her a gift that will keep on giving. Would love to send you the finished work in a really short clip so I can get your personal critique as I think this could be something I want to pursue more and more. I will say however I am not making anymore knives until my thumbs heal form the sanding, grinding, wet sanding, etc. etc. Again Walter, thank you, the channel is fricking awesome!!!
Hi Walter, greetings from Czech Republic (central europe region).
You are probably the man who changed my mind from just collecting knives to make knives on my own. Thank you very much so far I've made one throwing knife no scales - shape like dagger from springsteel using file jig from Gough. In about a month I'll start with grinding on custom and powerfull belt grinder. Keep a good work!
Thank you. Awesome to see videos for absolute beginner's itching to do something without a full setup already.
Walt, I could listen to that accent all day, definitely the best instructional videos on the tube!
Walter Sorrells
Your videos are amazing, and my son and daughter are inspired by them just as I am. Keep the work up.
This one is one of my favorites. Simple and tells the basic story of how to make a knife for those who think it will be too difficult.
Thanks for the video....i really appreciate you not only showing the various methods but also pointing out reasons why you have to do things like heat treating and tempering
As always, great video. Like to say your videos got my nose out of the phone and off the couch to the garage and started filing. Your videos are just a tap away if I need help. Thank you for your time and knowledge.
A buddy of mine got me into this hobby. Me and him worked on a couple knives together. Im pretty knew and havent started my own knife just yet but i plan on making a tanto blade or hunters knife with a black and green paracord wrap. Not a big blade maybe 3-4 inches max. Cant wait though. And i almoat forgot, i live in souther alabama. And its summer. The average temperature is 95 degrees, we were in jeans, boots, welding jackts, masks, and gloves. We both took welding so we cut stuff that way, unless its too small to cut. So its hot in the shed with humidity the heat index is usually in the 100's. We were out there sweating, hot, getting cut and getting minor burns. Felt miserable due to the heat but we loved making the knives. Best feeling ever was when people asked us where we got em and tell them that they're handmade
Walter, Love your videos. I am an avid knife maker from way back and admire your skills. I would be ashamed to show you the best of my work but they are tough and effective. I never buy knives, I just study the design and make a copy for my own enjoyment. If it breaks, and that is rare, I can make another. On another note, I think you got a raw deal on "Forged in Fire." Had they tried less to make the challenge look silly, you would have had the chance to showcase your work. You would have likely won the title. Nevertheless, your fans know who is the real champion. It is rare that I send out a kudos in knife-making videos but felt compelled to share my appreciation for your work and willingness to share your knowledge with your fan base. Great work, keep it up. Much respect.
Paracord is the #1 knife handle material. Period. It requires no tools, no chemicals, no glues, sanding, pins; has a rapid learning curve (you can learn a Whip Knot in about five minutes that can put a handle on just about anything); lasts for decades or a lifetime if you take care of it; myriad of colors; inexpensive; good grip; creative; solid; tough (I broke the wood handle on my Green River Hunter while camping in 2008, wood-glued and Whip-Knotted it back together. That same knot of black 550 Paracord has been through hell and hasn't budged. Still performs 100% in late 2023. Many of my house knives and outdoor knives are paracord for more than a decade now. Needs no replacing or fixing. I even put mine through the dishwasher.
All the pretty, expensive collector knife stuff is cool, but knives are only as good as their edge, as far as I'm concerned. I put mine through a lot of hard use. I build them and sheath them. I keep it simple, practical and handy. Paracord works, every time.
My initial impression of you was that you really seem to know your stuff inside and out and you're a stand up guy for giving up so much of your free time to pass along these lessons to new knife makers like myself.Well, after hearing your suggestion for acvtivities during tempering, I now know I was correct. Go Tighers!! Big thanks and thumbs up to you from the upstate. Still have a few weeks before kickoff so while i'm tempering in the oven for now I'll just start pracricing saying DJ's last name. With a little luck it will be rolling off the tounge by the time we line up against jawja. And maybe I'll even have a few new knives.
Thanks again and Go Tigers!!
Impressive presentation. I greatly enjoy your clear and witty commentary. Keep it up!
When I heard you say"beginer using tools that don't cost the world OR more experienced users with more expensive tools" made me watch the whole video. Great content brother
Lovin your video's Walter. Thanks for sharing. I think it's finally time to make my first knife. John
Hi Walter Sorrells Rick from Australia here.
Just stumbled upon your video by accident and only 6.09minutes in
And well done
New Subscriber from OZ
Cheers Mate
I just started bladesmithing in metalwork and I love it. Thanks for showing me how to make a paracord handle.
Thank you very much, this has been very interesting and informative to the point in the near future I'd like to make my own knife. Looking forward to also watch and learn more about this art.thank you again Walter.
Great video, and a well-illustrated lesson on, "the more you know, the less you need."
great video! i cant get enough of your videos! Because of you ive started making my own knives.
I made this knife on Saturday. No special tools. I did some of the cutting with a cutoff disk on my dremel tool. The rest was filing with my double cut bastard. Heat treating in chiminea with blow dryer pumping through guttering and quenched in used motor oil. It was my first knife, and I'm happy with the outcome! Kenny can suck it.
Such a fantastic tutorial, many thanks for taking the time to share this ~Peace~
This is the first video of your I have watched and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I will be checking your other vids. Thank you!!
Brother, your humor takes a great video and makes it awesome!
i hate a dam know it all, but MR Sorrels, i tip my hat, you evidently do. Keep up the good work, Ron
Best knife making video on RUclips at this time. I enjoyed the commentary. Well done sir. However I will be supporting the Buckeyes during my down time.
Great video, wish I saw this when I first got into making knives! Thank you for sharing your knowledge, you have a great channel!
really good video! you explain it understandable and quite easy even for people without english as first language. will try it the old fashioned way soon.
Walt does a great wrap for a handle! I use a strait lash method because it's quick ! 30 minutes and thats if I take a long coffee break!
OMG!!!! I built a knife with hand tools from Lowes. You really have to be committed and ready to sweat. Awesome video as usual Walter. Thank you!
Walter! Thanks for this video. This knife is realy simple. I very like yours tutorials. Greetings from Poland!
Very nice video. Great concept of showing both approaches.
Walter, thank you very much for the tutorial guide, it is really easy to understand and nice to watch, cheers from Brazil! I will try to begin and do my own knife! thank you!!
you are very inspiring and you encouraged me to make my first knife
Thank you so much for this detailed guide! My friends and I will give it a try :)
some poor kid is gonna go to the store looking for elbow grease
Probably at the same time he gets some blinker fluid for his car, lol
+Dalton Hallett +Walter Sorrells
Also for us non-native speakers that would be an easy mistake to make. But what oil did he use? It says "3-in-one all purpose oil" on the bottle, but what is that more specifically? Any recommendations?
+Telliria It's just a general purpose oil lubricant, the most common of its type in the US.
Walter Sorrells Thanks for getting back to me. I ordered some knife steel and will try this project soon. It might take time (being a busy father and all) but I'll get back with my progress. Thanks for sharing these great tutorials. I admire your professional and humble attitude.
could you go fetch me some grid squares?
Thanks for posting this now to decide what I want my blade to look like
Sec vol Nation here. Sec just got tuffer with Texas and sooners coming.
It's truly an art you do I'm such a big fan
thank you so much for this video I am set on making a knife but everywhere I look all I see is tutorials which require expensive equipment this is the only one which only requires simple tools
At 14:04 Sweet! Amazing how the right steel/quenchant allows for differential hardening with no need for claying or anything, just because the thinner edge area cools quicker. Really cool stuff!
Angelo Silva You dont need a clay,you can simply harden everything and then put a knife half way in the water so only edge stays submerged and heat the spine with a blow torch to release the hardness.
+zumbazumba1 Actually, here this was achieved simply through the cooling rate and edge thickness as the blade was plunged vertically into the oil rather than edge quenched as you mentioned but edge quenching with the blow torch seems to be the trick for steels that are supposed to through harden like D2. 1095 just seems to be in that sweet spot where you can quench it whole but if the heat and bevels are just right you can end up with a hamon. Might be annoying when you want it through hardened now t that I think about it...
you have great videos. I'll probably never make a knife but watching is fun
Excellent video. I may have to try my hand at knife making..Well, if the garden this spring allows the time for it.
I've wanted to get into blacksmithing, This video is awesome I learned a lot in 20 montes, but roll tide
im half way through my first knife at the moment and this video really helped me with the baisics
At around 17:15, when you start the paracord wrap process, you have your blade horizontally in the vice. Wouldn't it be easier if you had the blade vertically so you just needed to move from side to side yourself instead of having to keep flipping the blade? If I'm wrong please correct me. Otherwise thank you for taking the time to make the video.
It's easier to do that way...but it's also harder to see whether you're doing it evenly that way.
That makes sense. Thank you.
Camden Collington ?
don't mind him. He just discovered 'memes'.
@Camden Collington I'm gonna necro and say you don't know what that means.
i feel like there has to be some deep buried childhood story about you and cousin kenny... haha
fellow Clemson fan here, love your work!
I also really like the train horn @18:47. It gave the presentation a bit of American flavor.
thanks for show the two approaches was good way to motivate new people
love it i love that you explain everything thank you
Thank for making these for the beginners, I'm trying to learn to make some for my friends and family for birthday presents. Most of us are hunters and so hopefully I can successfully give them gifts that they actually appreciate! :)
nice video Walter I've been waiting for this one for a while
Excellent knife tutorial!
Thanks Walter!
As always, love your work. Thank you for doing these.
@2:58, - NJ Steel Baron. You are buying real product from a real person and I was completely impressed with this man at the Blade Show. It was like I was talking to a guy I knew for years when I met him. But then again I grew up in Jersey.
at 8:15 I noticed discoloration at the tip I'm glad to see you left it there because it shows the side affects at the belt sander and heat possibly hardening that spot
+dan rasmussen Any belt grinder heat prior to heat treating won't bother the final product in any significant way. You could turn the whole thing red hot...if you hold onto it! -- and it wouldn't hurt anything. After heat treating, though, you have to be much more careful about your heat build-up from grinding. If the heat builds up high enough to cause blue discoloration like this, it's a sign that you've decreased the hardness of the knife in that spot.
Whoever hit thumbs down must like spoons more than knives. This is one of the best videos on youtube! Thank you!!!
thanks for your knowledge and time, walter.
Awesome video and not boring like some similar ones.
Dude r a beast!! U explain everything so well!!👍👍
I've stumbled on knife making videos and found them very interesting as a hobby. That said I can't see anyone saving money by doing their own knifes. I mean for 20 to 40$ there are plenty of good knifes around.
you arent saving money but the process of making one is fun and really rewarding and if you do it right it's better then those 20 - 40 euro knives and you made it yourself and that's priceless
Meneer de Koe kind of! Depends on the steel you're working with.
yeah if your making one out of an Old file like i am you only Have to pay for the charcoal and that's it. except you don't have any tools.
Fair enough and I know the pleasure that comes from making your own stuff. But if the steel on that file is not great then the knife won't be great either. Besides, personally I work freelance and am fortunate to have a work where 3 billed hours are enough to buy a top quality knife or about 10 Moras. I might make a knife someday as it's interesting and I think I'd enjoy the experience.
Nice hair cut Mr. Sorrells. Looking forward to see the coatings!
walter: thanks for this videos and many others. they hare very usefull.
by the way i like your sacastic humor.
grettings from chile
Yet another awesome video, and now I've got a project for this weekend!
+Seth Gibson did you make the knife? if you already made it could you tell me how you did the heat treating?
I haven't made this one yet, but i've made similar simple blades and I do my heat treating the poor man's way, with a toaster oven:)
heh, i guess it works just as good as a normal oven. and how do you harden it, not the tempering.
That sandblasted finish looks gorgeous. thanks for the vid :)
Really awesome step by step instruction and the knife looks really nice in the end ... I though you would skeletonize the grip and then somehow wrap the cord through it but this one is easier ... I think I´ll made one like that, but smaller :)
Very good and easy to understand instructions. I subscribed.
I personally prefer to polish my knives for rust prevention. Glad you mention hard Arkansas stones. Been using those for gunsmithing for about 5 years now; it polishes/smoothes the surface while removing very little material.
one nice "rough coat" i use sometimes is to leave some of the rapeseed oil from hardening on there to get a black (cind of rust resistant) coating on the blade that can look kind of cool after a while. just go over it a bit with some scotch brite to get the biggest particles of the blade and leave the rest.
Wood hardener will set the paracord into a solid unit and make it more durable. Lots of YT vids on that too!
Appreciate the effort you put into your vids Walter. They're very informative, and your willingness to share your experience shows through at every stage. Thank you!
I have ordered a basic file set (per your recommendations) and am going to attempt my first knife soon.
On a side note, I'm not from the US, and don't have access to a variety of steels. I'm contemplating having it shipped to me an expensive and cumbersome effort to say the least), but also have come across suggestions of using the steel off leaf springs. Is this something you would ok for a beginner to get a passable end product? Or would I be wasting my time with it?
Thanks again for the time you put into these, cheers!
Older American cars have high carbon steel springs. 1095 and 5160 are both considered old American spring steels. Your country undoubtedly has equivilant standards.
As a beginner blacksmith/bladesmith I find videos like this incredibly helpful. As a historical weapons enthusiast, I have to disagree with what you said about how bevells were done in the darkages and prior, in those days they were actually forged in, by getting the metal red to yellow hot and while holding it at a write angle to the anvil and string with the near side of the hammer to force the metal into the appropriate shape then flipping it and repeating to make it even.
Fossilized mastadon.... Haha! That one thing I love about your videos... You always throw something random and ridiculous in your explanations. Keep them coming!
Awesome video as always, but I have to point out that when you quench steel you convert austenite to martensite, not ferrite and pearlite to martensite like you said at 13:39. Anyway enough with the bitching, a handle from paracord wrap is definitely a cheap and easy alternative, but it can look very cool if done properly.
Really sweet videos. Going to start up with my brother soon.
good call on alabama clemson!! and nice video too
Great vid, I feel like young Conan learning about the secrets of steel!
When quenching, (13:30), do NOT move the blade from side to side like he is doing in the video. Move it backwards and forwards in a slicing motion or upwards and downwards.
This will keep the blade from being cooled differently on either side, and should reduce chance of warping
How dope would it be to have Mastadon or Mamoth ivory handles on a knife
+Beardsley McBeard there are allot of blades out there with thos ekinds of handles,i dont really like the look of it,regular goat or buck horns look allot better on blades especially if their are going to be hunting or chopping blades
show pieces are another topic altogether but thats were most mastadon and mammoth ivory comes into play
+WarPath 808 I think you missed my point
Illegally dope. ;)
B N/a It would still be awesome tho lol
Great video! You're the reason I'm getting into knife making. I do have one question about this, though.
Do you anneal steel before you cut it to length or is that only if you don't get it from a mill or something? In the series in which you make a knife from a file you annealed it but not here. I just don't want to trash a hacksaw I could have saved.
Nice!
Thanks for sharing, Walter.
So I just checked out Admiral Steel. Thanks! Just purchased a good bit of 1095 for some upcoming projects, and such a good price!
Yeah man, we do have a football team. 15 national championships is all. lol love the vids bud, Tyler, Northport AL
Another awesome video boss 🤜🤛cheers
Nice... You have earned a new subscriber!
Walter you're hired!
good vid. i cant wait to hear about some coatings. dont forget kitchen friendly coatings! !
Go Tigers. Great tutorials.
Excellent! Thank you for this.
It's easier to build a $100 belt grinder than to waste all your time with files. Files are great for finishing work, but for me, it literally took a week to build a belt grinder for $100. I now save hours and hours and make better quality knives than before. It's amazing what you can do with a belt grinder.
dude great video, especially liked the Clemson reference! as a Duke fan ill be watching them, but I always keep an eye on the tigers as well. I hope they beat the he'll outta the tide this year!