How To Make a Fighting Dagger Out of an Old Steel File
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
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Today we're making a fighting dagger with a stacked leather handle. This one borrows from many different styles and the inspiration is drawn largely from several daggers made by Boker in Germany and the Fairbairn-Sykes fighting dagger variants.
Thanks for watching and enjoy!
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In an internet filled with crappy videos on blacksmith, yours stands out as an exemplary example of how to make a great video. You were to the point yet covered all the steps. Kudos to you sir.
You went from making bows from PVC pipes to being a blacksmith. Amazingly cool.
Haha! Thanks!
Brainake check out his other videos, he's a blacksmith :-)
having been an ironworker for almost 35 years, the skill you have with a hand grinder is impressive, usually takes awhile to get thart steady and accurate
Dude, beautiful. I don't think I've ever actually seen someone do stacked leather.
same,... guy really knows his shit
A lot of people I noticed shit on this guy for having an awkward on-camera presence and they pretty much ignore his skill and actual bad assery.
+Luke Loder I thought he had a GREAT camera Presence! He is confident, doesn't say Um or Ah and he knows what he wants to say. I like watching his videos because they are not cringe worthy and not distracting from the actual topic of the video.
+ssunfish thats what i noticed! That can distract me so easily. This dudes straight to the point with no funny business. Must have a pretty cool dad/mom(:
+blabada 123 ill bet you haven't been laid either at all or in a long time
Luke Loder im 13. What do u think.
+blabada 123 we're done here LOL i wont argue with someone online, especially someone who hasn't finished secondary schooling quite yet.. Id just feel like the cancer myself. have a good one fam
Im gonna be honest....being from a military family in Canada (PPCLI)....I have ww2 daggers carried by my grandad....you sir have done an honour to us! Thank you!
yes he did i couldn't agree more its a beautiful dagger
Hold on, your grandad didn't happen to migrate from Germany..
did he?
James Gordon this dagger is by the looks of it based on the fairbyrne skyes fighting dagger used by british commandos (SAS) during World War II and to this day its on their unit flash on their beret
Yeah, kind of a more German look to it.
@@beerthug ibuyworldwar2.com/tag/ss-daggers/ LOL
The fact you can get clean bevel grinds with an angle grinder is amazing. Steady hands.
+Ernest Sheffield Like no fucking kidding... I was looking at him do the bevels with a god damned angle grinder and I was like , well I need to watch a different video because there is now way I can do that... lol
+JD Tremblay sure you can... just get it close then draw file it to final shape... hell, I've made a few knives where I only used files... can be done, just takes longer.
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I just made a kick ass knife today man; made a forge bought some bloodwood and purple heart, made some mosaic pins out of brass pipe and steel rods just need to shape the handle tomorrow and make it all shiny shiny!
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I used an angle grinder to do exactly that, got it down to pretty close then finished it off with a bastard file then heat treated and so on :D as you can tell I am stoked and proud lol
+JD Tremblay That is no way to talk about your files dude!Show some respect for your tools! 😉
You're genuinely wholesome to watch. Thank you.
Your confidence with a grinder blows my mind!
Meaty Ogre 12ю
VERY IMPRESSIVE!!! I am setting up my shop for knife making myself, my son, and my grandson. I am putting a belt grinder, forge, anvil, hammers, tongs and all the other trimmings, and then, I see your video using minimal equipment.. As a VN vet, I also thank you for your tribute to the military. I am now a new subscriber!
What you can't see in this video is the years it took to acquire the skills to make it look this easy.
well said
+tetsubo57 yes.
Its worth the years off work tho
So true! 👍 What it also doesn't show is all the new guys filling their trash cans with snapped, melted, fractured and oddly shaped files bought from the discount store whilst trying to copy this video on a Saturday afternoon. 😂😂
+tetsubo57 so true, He makes it look easy.
How about a simple folder design with PVC scales sort of like our granddad's old pocket knife.
Badass looking blade. Definitely something to be proud of.
+Fletchett Thank you!
An work of art.
Beautiful.
Thanks again.
You are a special being , continuing ages old attributes that must never ever be lost.
Bless you and yours.
First started watching your PVC bow video's. Made a couple for my kids, they loved them. Nice to see you upped your skill level to blacksmithing, something I want to do once I retire. I will be watching more of these video's, your work with basic tools always amazes me!
4:54 [H] FULL BLUE CASE HARDENED [W] 500 KEYS
+Anomaly
ANOMALEH omfg :D
ha, the fuck you doing here?
+Andy ednios hahahaha thought the same
+Anomaly lol anomaly?
+Anomaly yeah lol wtf u doing here
I like the way you teach. It's easy to learn from you. I think I joule do this. Thanks
I was inspired by your video to make this knife. It turned out pretty well!
Awesome! I'm glad this video helped.
+BackyardBowyer Could you make one for me just like that and I could pay for it?
I annealed the file by heating it to cherry red, then slow cooled it in a bucket of perlite over night. Made it very easy to work.
I like watching these videos, the guy talks slow enough so I can understand too, and man, for something that was done with a GRINDER that dagger is insane! Level of skill is so high, and the end result looks like it was done with fine machines. Got to respect this dude's skills!
Simply beautiful. I expected a more senior craftsman with the skill and expertise you exhibited. I had the same ambition to use my hands to create things I found interesting in all industrial arts in school and afterwards. Great video and work.
Wow wonderful work!
+Cosmas B Could not agree more!
+Cosmas B Right
Pretty cool for low cost low tool tech
You make it look easy. You obviously have hours of practice with that angle grinder. Minimum of equipment impressive result.
Especially when you realize it is a Harbor Freight grinder. lol
joe rohling equipment second to skill
Days of practice
Aj Ginther I am waiting you do a video better than this one, good luck
Years, I would say. xx
I really must say your talent is overwhelming. You create beauty with you hands and imagination.
files are mostly made of W2. quench at °1800 temper at °350 for one hour. twice. files make a very durable knife.
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Man you rock! I'm a custom knife maker and blacksmith and I gotta say you did an excellent job on that. I love your bows and now I love your knives. Keep up the good work! Thank you for the great videos!
Brilliant job. Best dagger I have ever seen, fascinating how you re-tempered it. Buck made his first combat knives from old files in WW2 which is why even to this day the blades are still quite narrow.
I have trouble understanding heat treating and tempering. I know they have something to do with making the metal less likely to break but I don't know the differences between heat treating, and tempering, can someone please explain this? I tried google but the weren't any straight forward answers. Thanks.
+thepuppetmagician Tempering is a part of heat treating. There are many things that can be done during heat treating and different steels require their own heat treatment to perform their best. Most steel manufacturers give heat treating instructions for the steels they produce.
Basically when you heat treat a knife like this, there are three basic steps. The first thing I did was anneal the file, which brought it down to what is known as dead soft. This is where the crystal structure of the steel is very fine and under little stress. This can be done during heat treatment to relax the steel and ensure the crystals are all uniform in size and type. You can also normalize, which means bringing up to critical and then allowing to air cool, a few times.
Next, I hardened the file by bringing it up to critical and then quenching in oil. Different quenchants cool steel at different rates, so you need to figure out what works best for the steel you are using. Oil is generally a slower quench and can help keep the steel from getting so stressed it cracks or breaks. Water is faster and various brines are usually the fastest. There a lots of ways to harden a knife, and sometimes only part of the knife is hardened.
Finally the knife needs to be tempered. Tempering is basically heating the hard but brittle steel up to a certain temperature (in this case 400 degrees F) to remove some of the brittleness and introduce some springiness into the knife. There are ways to heat treat without tempering, but generally knives like that don't have the same springy quality as a knife that has been hardened fully and then tempered back. They tend to stay bent when bent rather than spring back.
This is a really basic way to talk about heat treating. Heat treating steel can be very complex, but hopefully this helps!
+thepuppetmagician heating the steel up to critical and then quenching makes the steel very hard but also very brittle, tempering sacrifices some of the blades hardness but makes it much less brittle and less likely to snap or shatter.
+thepuppetmagician When you're dealing with a hammer-forged metal, especially if you are twisting or folding the metal, certain stresses can build up within the metal due to it being stretched out in some places and compressed in others. Rapidly cooling the metal in water or oil causes it to become extremely hard, so it's essential for blades, but thermal shock is an issue - imagine dipping a hot wine glass into cold water. It will shatter. If you don't alleviate the built-up stresses in the metal before hardening, the same thing will happen to your piece.
To do this, you heat the metal to just past the point where it loses magnetism, and allow it to slowly cool in the air, and repeat several times. This evens out all the stresses in the metal and reduces the risk of the blade breaking or warping during quenching.
While you are working on the shape, you need the metal to be soft and malleable, but it can't hold an edge in this state - so quenching is necessary. After quenching, the blade is extremely hard, but also extremely brittle - it would shatter if dropped. So it must be made a little softer and more flexible to be able to absorb impacts better. That's why he put it in the oven for a while. This softens the blade slightly, but not to the point where it can't hold an edge. The hotter you go, the softer the metal gets.
+thepuppetmagician The best way to think of it is that heating and quenching tempers the steel. Baking the steel then relieves the stress caused by tempering, which is what makes the steel overly hard and brittle. This part of the process is called "stress relieving".
when you don't heat treat metal and try to bend it, it will bend and stay that way. when you heat treat, during the first step you make the blade super strong but its very fragile like glass, you quench it in oil so that it doesn't have time to just cool down and the atoms to go back to their normal state. on the second stage when you heat it to the wheat color, it relaxes the metal and makes it more resilient. If you're still interested and have ever looked and studied a katana you'll notice it has a slight curve, this is due to the fact that when they heat treat it, in the first step they but clay over the spine so that it stays strong and won't get a dent when it gets hit, but because of this when its quenched the spine contracts and the blade expands creating the curve... sorry if I didn't explain things very well or if my grammar was bad don't judge, I'm only 13
Bro... Cant believe you shaped that with an angle grinder. Hats of to you . that takes talent. Good job and keep up the good work.
wow thats a beautiful blade you did a fantastic job!!!!
It's gorgeous... I cried...
Well done young man! You seem to have a working knowledge of metallurgy/blade-smithing and you certainly show a creative side. Your no- nonsense delivery is efficient and well received by folks that are truly interested in just the facts and how to get it done. I see a lot of folks on here giving bad/negative reviews . . . disregard them. Their psycho issues reach way beyond this subject.
You make it look really simple. That's encouraging for beginners like me as we develop our own skills......
Badass man!
Thanks for watching!
what is that White stuff in the bucket were you it in ?
Tomas Tamosauskas
It's called pearlite, it's a medium used when growing hydroponics. You might be able to find it at garden centres?
Thank you.
Your grinder skills are incredible! I make knives out of files too and mine don't come out that good but after watching you I have learned some techniques that I'm looking forward to trying on my next knife. Thanks for doing such a good video that is right to the point, no rambling lip service, and informative. Keep posting more knife videos they are fun to watch. Good job!
Did your next knife work out better?
Awesome work. If you find the angle grinder awkward for shaping a Dremel or flex shaft works great. You can also use it to easily burnish the leather which gives a great look and helps with waterproofing and durability
This really is one of the best channels on RUclips
Great vid and knife! I'm a knife fanatic and have always wanted to make my own knives and started messing around with a grinder and some scrap metal and watching vids on YT and this is one of the best, I've found easy to understand and not just watching someone do something but you've explained everything very clearly. You have a new follower/fan in me bro, thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Old files with or without handles can be bought for cheap at second hand stores.
Great idea.
Nice job, and with basic handtools I'm impressed.
try to make karambit
Should learn to blacksmith, it's actually easier than all that cutting and grinding.
I think its easier but grinding is more fun
+wayne maciasac Hardly.
And hot file.
+Rex Mundi Your profile pic makes that statement perfect.
Beautiful work!
A great creation with great use of tools at hand.
You did beautiful piece of craftsmanship. Well done.
I was a little skeptical about the angle grinder being used for the handle. it came out looking fantastic. hard to believe it was a file. very nice !
Awesome knives! awesome videos. You always get straight to the building process without over-talking like other channels. Keep up the awesome work. I appreciate all.
That is a very beautiful piece. Excellent workmanship!
The dagger looks cool!
It only lacks sheath/scabbard.
Real good work.
Nice, the simple display stand is a great touch.
This is one of my favorite videos of yours. I have watched you make this knife so many times, and it's awesome, every time. Thanks bro !
Thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoy it!
Here I am again !
Well done my friend, you are very talented. Grinding your bevels with an angle grinder is not easy. You work amazingly well with minimal tools.
Hats off to you bro. U made this badass knife using just one angle grinder. Awesome bro.
Very nice work. Did not expect the handle to be made that way but it seems like a good option.
Very impressive, nice clean work. Double edge blade is SWEET!
Very nice work! You have done very well. Especially with the equipment that you have, or should I say don't have/use. Yes, you do make it look easy, and yes you do probably have a lot of experience. But your method is one that even novices can learn. Good job
That is one of the most perfect knives I have ever seen! It is beautiful.
3 years on, this is still my favorite blade that you made.
Brother, you are the awesomest. I'm blown away with every one of your tutorials. Thank you so much for sharing your artistic talents with us!
Amazing work brother, truly. I can't wait to start some simple projects of my own. Your work is very inspiring.
Great to see you got more vids w over a million views. Congrats Tommy.
I'm not sure how long it took you to reach critical temp with your torch, but I just used another version of this from Harbor Freight on a rasp bush knife (15 inches long) and it took around 7.5-8.0 minutes from turning the gas on to quenching. :D Thank you so much for your response on where to get the tool! My life has been made so much easier!
Nick, you continue to amaze me. Another work of art.
Nick puts me in a weird place where I dislike his voice but love his work so much
ive watched many of your videos over the past number of years and this is the finest peice ive seen. for a young man you are sure to be able to craft anything you want.im moving to my elderly dads farm and i just cannot wait to build my first forge and slowly over the next few years make similar objects which are weapons to some but tro others like myself they are the purest form of art.someday maybe eighty years from now somone will find it by some circumstance and have a real treasure from the past,but better for your legacy as a family airlume[bsd spelling].you should be very proud.excelent to the point tutorial.you have another subscriber!
Bro, that knife is really well made with the kind of resources you are using
Nice work. Can't wait to see what knife you make next.
that is a very attractive blade there. Perhaps a red or black acrylic spacer halfway through the leather would really make it stand out.
you are a true craftsman...excellent work...you have a future in knife making!
Wow. it has been a long time since I watched one of your videos. You sure have expanded your skills.
These are so awesome... Thank you for showing how to make them.
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Handle is bad ass , you have serious skills 👍🏼
I watched this video a few times. You have an amazing eye and talent for doing hand work. Not many people can make something so symmetrical and shaped perfectly without machining it. I have for years wanted to try knife making. I just never took the time to try it. You also demonstrate that everything in my garage tool wise is enough to give it a shot. I been a machinist all my life and am familiar with metal working. I have to ask how many hours you have into this knife? Have you ever sold any? I see you wrote a book...I may order a copy. Thanks for the great videos and your time.
Lovely work Nick...you are one talented guy.
Hey man I love your channel I've tried out some of your projects the first vid I've ever seen with you was the bow with a stove and I've loved you're channel since even though I haven't been watching your channel that long it's one of my favorite on RUclips keep up the good work
That knife is absolutely beautiful
Beautiful dagger - really want to make one...well as close to that as I can.
Ian Macfarlane me too
Very nice i love the fact that it is very much like the v42 British WW2 God bless from Canada eh great video thanks I watched your video back in the day when you were making PVC pipe bow's good to see you are well brother!
Hi, You are a genius with your hands, I'm really impressed. Thanks for all your video's
Dammiitt Son... Your are the Craftsmen. Looks better than my 73 model Gerber Mk II. And not a single set of micrometers were used to boot. Proud to know of ya! Reckon Bowie hisself woulda traded you out for that one. Grat's on the million mark +. Time i subbed.
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What a beauty in the end.
that is a beautiful dagger. great work man!
What a gorgeous knife.... amazing job!!!
Wow amazing skill and workmanship
Well done, that's a fine dagger.
That handle is so great!
Beautiful. You should make a mini shovel or soil knife for metal detecting. I bet you could come up with something awesome!
Thank you for the suggestion and for watching!
A true craftsman, my hat's off to ya.....
that knife is an a work of art to something to be proud of and for a future video can you please make a krambit from an old saw blade, loved tbis build and am definitely subscribing👍
woah,good maker! The dagger is very well made,although personally I wouldn't have chosen a plate pommel,which would be redundant with the cross-guard...but it's only a matter of taste.
Dude you're extremely talented.
Great work ! I' ve made a few stacked leather handles Myself & love it.
Beautiful knife
Hi- very similar to a basilard dagger. excellent work!
Beautiful work, and finely executed! I was very impressed watching this video, it was very educational, and interesting watching you make this Dagger!
You really do a nice job with just pretty basic tools!
Tony Dadon you see that grinder? A tool shop grinder. They sell for cheap. Works well. A man after my own heart. Economically conscious too.😃
Tony Dad on Friday night so
This was a great job brother. I absolutely love it
Dude! Great video, definitely the best one for making knives ! Appreciate them
You do really great work and this piece is one of the more beautiful ones. Would love to see what kind of sheath this has.
Good job. Knife came beautiful.