MAKING A KATANA!!! 1 MILLION LAYERS!!! PART 6 - The Habaki
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Alec Steele Blacksmith 2017
Who is going to win?
Alec Steel. A professional blacksmith, that have done this for years.
OR
A small copper boi
I stumbled upon this channel almost by accident and now I can't stop watching. Your comments are absolutely hilarious.
I stumbled upon this channel from Mike Boyd(Go check out his channel) when he learned to throw an axe.
Same
Hats off to you for the honesty of your build. You could have practiced lots of times off camera and then come on as mr perfect but you chose to show us your countless f*ck ups which made it a learning process for all of us.
I agree, I like that he's not afraid to show his struggles at learning something or showing his mistakes. It makes it more real and gives you a sense of what it's really like making something. That's one of the things that keep me coming back to his channel.
It wouldnt be so funny, and thats the part of His content :D
Yeah
Yes he shows it's HARD to make something but the effort is worth it in the end.
Capt Buford Justice I totally agree...
ps love your name choice, that’s one of my all time favourite films and Jackie Gleason is brilliant as Buford.
"I'm sure if I knew what I was doing, I'd know if I was doing it or not." - Alec Steele. Maybe one of the most apt quotes ever for anything.
See, that silver solder video helped more than you knew 💪👍👊
+Weld.com it absolutely DID! Thank you sir!
Glad to have helped and thanks for the shout out. Love the videos.
@@AlecSteele u should be on forged in fire the show
This video really exemplifies the just-right amount of hardheadedness and willingness to jump out into the unknown that let Alec succeed and thrive. Complete opposite of myself. I would have definitely gotten caught up on the "paralysis by analysis" and probably never started this project and learned had I been in his shoes.
To silver solder you have to have a clean solder joint. I sand both sides of the joint with 120 grit sand paper. Apply a Liquid flux (way easier than powder) then heat till it bubbles and apply the silver solder. It should wick into the joint.
Late to the party, but to expand on this comment, the copper does not need to be red, at some point it will actually be too hot, like in the video and the solder skates off the top rather than flowing smoothly into the joint.
If the UA-cam video didn't mention it; when you silver solder, heat the material after it has been fluxed, remove the heat while at the same time, touch the material joint with the silver solder. Don't try to melt the solder into the joint with the flame. When the joint is hot enough, just touching the solder to the joint will melt the solder and wick it into the joint. Too much heat on the copper will burn it and cause it to bubble! Works with stainless steel as well. Burning stainless steel, however, will cause it to "Sugar." Burns the nickel out and leaves a crystal looking material.
“Do you know what you’re doing?”
“No” -said every great blacksmith.
Hand sanding is the greatest teacher of discipline
And patience.
I think this might be one of my favorite videos that you've done, Alec. Everyone that makes things has "those days" where absolutely nothing seems to go right, and the fact that you showed us your learning process as you tried all day long to get it to work, instead of just showing the one successful try, was really cool.
Oh yeah! Katana polish! Drop everything, relax, watch, and enjoy! Thanks Alec! Are you going to make a companion Wakizashi?
I gotta say man this is one of my favourite videos to date. Watching your struggles and how you keep positive (outwardly at least) through it all, followed by your unbridled joy upon success was amazing. It's very motivating to see that you're still learning and just like all makers, the real build is yourself.
Dude, you should make a shirt that says, "I'm sure if I knew what I was doing, I'd know if this was working..." xD
The way you forge and hammer copper is.... Amazing Alec!!!
Shoulda tried a mokume gane (Damascus with stuff like brass and copper instead of carbon and nickel steel) hibaki and kashira. That would be a sweet new type of Damascus for you to try Alec.
Hitoshi Kirako was just thinking that but I’m always surprised how few people even know about this technique.
Chris Vincent I guess its a bit hard to do, I did see a guy use some US coins to make it
Chris Qiao that may have been BackyardBowyer. I would gladly send a giant ass box of U.S. coins to Alex if I needed it. I live I the south part of America, and have a crap ton of old quarters.
Hitoshi Kirako Save the old quarters, trash the new ones. Some of the old ones can still buy a loaf of bread. The new ones don't have any of the intrinsic worth from the silver content.
Atlas WalkedAway the newer ones have a different alloy that doesn't weld together as as well. new ones melt SUPER easy, and if you smack it with a hammer to finish the weld, molten metal sprays out. Trust me, I have a 4 inch long burn scar on my leg from attempting with new quarters.
Yes!! I watched almost all of Walter Sorrell's videos when I got into knife making! I must say that your enthusiasm is inspirational and look forward to watching your newest episodes!! Great job!
Finally, he appears to be human.
Kasey Krupa everyone just has those days sometimes.
Are we all actually lizards trying to be human? Perchance Mark Zuckerberg is the closest to our lizard origins? Maybe he's actually a robot pretending to be a lizard pretending to be a human? Mark Zuckerbot?
I had those days more often than not during my time as a machinist/fabricator lol
As a maker fighting problems, I can totally understand and love what you are doing. Keep it up. Never stop learning, never stop evolving.
Alec!!! I love you and your show!!!
Anything worth having, doesn't come easy Alec. Good job keeping after it.
I'm looking forward to seeing a beautiful tsuba for the katana :)
Love the use of an imperial pint glass as a cooling bath.
"I'm sure if I knew what I was doing, I would know if this was working!" Priceless
Fantastic. Love the videos as always. Love the honesty in the way that things go wrong and it's not all edited away. Makes for nice realistic viewing
I am so happy that Mike Boyd lead me to your channel. No pun intended I subbed on the first video I watched I have always wanted to be an engineer but you may have changed my mind because you have so much fun making your creations and videos
Caitlin Hanna dont abandon being a engineer be something new or unique a engineer that combines it with blacksmithing or viseversa.
Mike led me to Alec as well - I also subbed on the first video... Now I might enjoy Alec more than Mike - sorry Mike, still think you're great. Love this katana project as well
lol. im from mike boyd too :)
So I'm a engineering student that has also done blacksmithing. Both are a lot of fun and you get to make all kinds of cool things in both professions, but engineers are more viable careers. That being said, you are never only one thing. You can be an engineer and a blacksmith.
wheres the pun?
Great episode. Good to see it’s not just me who has the odd day when nothing seems to go my way in the workshop.
Every day I'm Sanding to the song everyday I'm hustling.
"Sand in the place where you live" are the new embedded lyrics thanks to David over at @DrunkenWoodworker :)
I absolutely loved watching you work the copper, longtime subscriber and seeing the way copper works compared to steel and whatnot is just cool
Braze it next time silly! Use your oxy acetylene torch with a small pencil point flame and use a copper core welding rod, knock the flux off of the rod and melt it into the seam. Voila.
Watch my video on this channel about my forge burner, there is a picture example of the end result where I show an auger bit soldered to the inside of a black pipe section of my forge. Even though this is days later.....it's still good Intel my friend. 👌
Yes...Braze is the way to go. Get a high silver % and it is workable kinda like copper and it will polish up nice.
I thought the same, he's making that whole thing hot, while he just had to focus on the seam with a small, hot flame, and than add the copper welding rod, I've done it a thousand times; welding copper pipes together for refrigerators, you know: the small one into the big one, so the gas inside expands rapidly thus cools it down. Well not gone give a lecture on how refrigerators work, but you get the picture. I'm a retired metal worker, have made many things, and worked with many tools. And I like these clips from Alec very much, and his love for his trade is just adorable. I've also learned a thing or two from him, cause blacksmithing was something I've learned at school, a long time ago (over two lifetimes of Alec ago).
J.M.K. HVAC tech here so i know where you are coming from. The braze is going to want to chase the heat and if the whole thing is hot it just makes it more difficult. How long were you a metal worker?
Yeah important you get that neutral flame
+Chris Thomas
Some 20+ years, also done carpeting, carpentry, plumbing, constructing, painting, and more. You could say I'm an allround craftsman, but mostly worked with metals.
congrats on the biggly learning day, anything you don't succeed at is a lesson learned.
Nicest copper taco I have ever seen.
I love this guy so honest!
I was a plumber for years. The best tip for soldering i can give is to make sure both pieces are clean and roughed up before you solder.
Plumbers don't silver solder, they/you use(d) tin/lead solder, and that's something complete different. Silver solder doesn't need any flux, just concentrated heat.
Yes, true. I did use silver solder a few times and it worked best for me when it was nice and clean. I was in a hurry and meant solder not flux.
A lot of plumbers use silver solder, where I'm from silver soldering the copper piping is the norm
agree. most don't use tin/lead beacuse it's usually the supply lines that are done in copper. don't want the lead in someone's drinking water
watching you try to silver solder made me want to fly out there and teach you. It is one of the few things that you have tried that I actually knew how to do before I watched your video
The Habaki would be a great place for your touch mark
Nope, on a Katana the touch mark goes on the tang, that's tradition.
J.M. K. I think you're confused. He didn't ask where the touch mark traditionally goes. (Also, nope... The touch mark didn't go on the hang, because they were signed with a name, and had no touch mark. The whole point of a touch mark is to avoid having to sign your name. So... Nope.)
Signing with your name is the same as having a touch mark imho, and I know he didn't asked that, he simply suggested that Alec should put his one there, I disagree with that.
With all the overcoming the habaki has led to and with how non-traditional this katana is (no hamon or the mild steel sandwiched in the middle). Why not lay a touch mark and own that. Just my unrequested thoughts
Hey Alec, my artist/jeweller mother taught me to silver solder when I was wee, and I used that skill to put together tiny miniature weapons in copper, silver, and brass. At the end of this video you mentioned tips, so here's a few: instead of working straight from a rod, snip off a few pieces and bead them up with the torch. Then use a pointy steel rod, heated a bit at the end, to grab the beads in order to place them on your ready-to-flow workpiece. This way, when the bead flows into the joint, you don't have a big ol' mess. Number two, think in terms of heat and capillary action. In other words, those are the two things that will pull the solder across the piece. You probably could have joined up that habaki with a much smaller torch tip, and that would have let you isolate your heat a little bit and have the solder flow to the hot spot. As far as capillary action goes, like you said, having your surfaces close together is good.
Thats all I can think of that might be helpful, good luck on the rest of the build, I'm looking forward to your tsuba(guard) and the rest of the furniture.
-Morgan from Nova Scotia
Bob Moffatt is the man that taught me to mig weld! He came to my high school years ago from Cowley College to see what we were learning in our Welding 2 class. Small world, ain't it? I dig your vlog by the way. Always entertaining, and informative. Keep at it, bruv.
Inspirational young dude. Love the attitude, your outlook, and it really feels like we're growing with you as you keep learning and perfecting your trade. This is what learning is about, and all kids should follow you.
its good to see you have so much fun doing your job love to see all the best from down under
I'm not even going to lie it's really nice seeing a video like this even though it went all wrong it was still raw and by the end you achieved what you had been aiming for and it's just refreshing to see .
Excellent display of fortitude, i mean the never ending optimism in the face of repeated failures! Its motivating and im sure so many will earn life skills because of this!
You can tell what kind of mood Alec is in by the height of his hair.
As someone who silver solders on the regular. I really enjoyed this video.
Really thought method for removing dropped part from glass was going to be throw glass against wall 😈
You should know for next time, that you can tig weld copper. I've tig welded lots of copper sheet metal hoods for above stoves. You can either fuse the two metals together, or if filler rod is needed just cut a sliver if the copper you are using in the project. Good luck & thanks for another entertaining video!
Watching a UA-cam video in a UA-cam video. Pretty meta.
skipopotamus most honest youtuber😀😃😃
It's Looking awesome man. Can't wait to see it finished.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. I've learn alot more from my failures than my success. You always question your failures, and generally take success for granted.
TheUnclefester13 I like to question my successes too 😉
Great vid! Love the Dwight Yoakam in the background!
i really admire his determination with making this blade! and he seems to never tire out, holly heck. you have my greatest respect.
I think the major difference in the soldering from the beginning to the end is that to start with you were trying to melt the solder by heating the solder itself. Later, you were heating the copper pieces you were trying to fuse and letting the heat from the work piece melt the solder as the solder touched it. That's how I was always taught to solder. Solder flows to the spots where the piece is hottest, so you want your joint to be the hottest are of the piece.
I love his builds but I want an armor or shield build! Anyone else?
Yes Please!
Go to ZNA productions
Juan Carlos Beaver There's quite the difference between blacksmithing a set of armor and doing what Eli (ZNA Prod.) Does. Eli does great work, but we never see any REAL armorsmithing.
Shield is wood, blacksmiths don't like wood...
I suggested a Damascus shield boss or buckler in the last video, a full steel shield would just be ridiculous to make...but could he do it???
Making mistakes is how we learn and succeeding after failure is so rewarding.
I wish I could fail as successfully as him. 😂😂 Instead, I fail....and then whatever I’m working with spontaneously explodes.
Taft Brandli dude you have a talent! You could be working on a paper plane and turn that into a bomb, something I’m sure is useful in a combat situation ;) :P
Taft Brandli "any machine is a smoke machine if you operate it wrong enough" -an old navy friend
I was making a knife once and i literally melted it in half, quite spectacular but i was so mad
You my friend show make UA-cam videos! You'd probably do better than Alec! Hahaha
I had a fail spontaneous explosion today lol. I'm and electrician, I changed out an old panel at and old shop where all the wiring was crazy. It had a bunch of Edison circuits 2 hots for one neutral, one of the old outlets was wired wrong so when i flipped the breaker on Kabang direct short sounded like a gun shot. tripped the 200 amp main, so it was a 2000 amp short lol.
I love your exuberance AND your explanations. 2 soldering suggestions. 1st is to get a much smaller torch head. 2nd is that you heat the copper and then simply touch the solder to the hot copper. The flame should never touch the solder. Thanks so much for your work.
Can you make a Damascus baseball bat.
Nah he's English needs to make a Damascus steel cricket bat
Orrrrr bronze copper Damascus cricket bat ....... Hmmmm I like that idea!
My shoulder hurts just thinking about it
Alec, I believe that when hard soldering copper is involved, you must pay attention to the surface of the soldered copper element. Its best to ‘activate’ the copper with nitric acid before soldering so the soldering material will ‘wet’ the soldered surface evenly. Just a friendly tip from a nobody but I guess you will find it informative for the future.
Liked the video btw.
UA-cam is such a wonderful resource for us makers.
That was a very inspiring clip. I've been watching you make amazing pieces of art for a while now in amazement, feeling like I could never do it myself. But seeing you struggle with something I know how to do fairly well from working in refrigeration really showed me that maybe I can do some of the stuff you do. That it takes time and dedication. So thank you for showing your learning experience and hats off to you for teaching yourself without a professional teaching you as I had.
I think you need a day off Alec.
When youtubers finally snap....
Way to persevere through the failures and making it work. I hope you can get some tatami mat rolls for when you finish this katana and start cutting things with it.
You're too awesome
As a hobbyist also with smithing and electronics, I would suggest when trying to solder, 1) lower your overall heat to the solder's melting point and to use a heat synch. 2) try a more focused flame
Can u make a Damascus spear head plz.
So, like the whole shaft as well or just the head?
i assume just the head as you will not be able throw a spear made of full metal
The Arctic Fox spear head
The Arctic Fox That sounds awfully close to something you may hear a virgin say.
Good on ya mate, you stuck with it. And learnt something in the process.
Copper TIG welds very nicely.
You have a tig welder !!!!!
cwtoyota I reckon, 10 seconds with the tig and he would have been done!
I absolutely love your videos. I am no blacksmith but I was wondering if this would be easier if you punched a hole into a piece of copper and worked the material out all the way around until you had the flat area all the way around with no split that needs to be attached. Hell I don't even know if my description of what was in my head makes any sense lol
You can tig weld it you realise
He means the copper bits if that's not clear
Crossed Heart Forge - theislandblacksmith in addition to Walter Sorrels is a great one to watch for traditional Japanese style blade furniture (habaki, tsuba, etc)
One word...... Amazing
alec has the best haircut ever.
is this a failarmy video ?
Absolutely loved it failure is always an option.
Watch more Walter Sorrells ! You can't go wrong with him especially with Japanese blades!
Yes, Walter Sorrells is a Master knife/sword maker! I love his videos too! Alec has more fun though!
Walter Sorrell has the experience and the skills that come along with many years of practice.
Hey Alec. So when soldering, flux wants to flow towards the heat and the “solder” flowers to the flex. So if you heat it from the button you’ll notice that the flux will flow down towards the heat, at that time add your material ”solder” you’ll see it flow on through. It should be as strong as a weld. Sir good luck. Thank you all of your fun videos.
1:04 nice cake you've drawn there Alec ^^
if you dip the solder in flux disolved in water it will stick to the metal and won't fly off when you put the torch on it
Hey Alec just take thinner solderwire and maybe not such a hot burner. Goldsmiths use simple propan burners with self air intake or pressure air from the compressor. You only need heat up to 800/900 degree Celsius for silversoldering. Doesn’t make it so awfully risky if overheating the workpiece. Flux up the parts you want to solder and heat it up until solder is melting. Just ask a master of gold smithing ;) Awsome and inspiring to watch you. Greatings from Hamburg, Germany
I love that your filmers name is Jamie Cuz the videos where you talk to him it feels like you are talking to me. Pretty awesome.
Would definitely suggest watching some of the man at arms katana builds.
You have been visited by Murphy today/or rather yesterday....still a most awesome vid!!!!
With your new found knowledge of silver soldering, you can not also do copper plumbing! The methodology is the same, you heat up the copper using propane or MAPP gas then add the solder. You do need to use flux when doing plumbing so that the solder gets into the joint and creates a water tight seal. Well done, and as mentioned I really like that you do not edit out the mistakes as it helps us all learn the why's of each failures without having to run through it ourselves. Keep up the awesome work, and I will look forward to future video's!
Hey Alec as a person who's done a LOT of soldering I can tell you in the future you'll get much better results using a paste based solder (so it doesn't move) after you've sanded the area to be soldered to remove any oxidation. This will produced a much better solder flow and will be exponentially stronger.
Thank you sir, corrected, brain fart moment.
The key to silver soldering is to clean your piece before you start. Just like Damascus, silver solder won't bond to an oxidized surface. You will actually aneal the copper in the soldering process.
lol I am glad I'm not the only one that feels like that when trying to make stuff
It would be nice to see a scrapyard challange where you make something from an weird peice of metal!
brown tip - lowest silver good for copper - copper, cherry red - stick some solder on it, move the heat and pull the solder to where you need it (it follows the heat), its pretty easy even a map gas torch is more than enough for that. practice just slightly melting it and making a tower (flame/heat control). very basic probs all wrong because its 3am but its something
You can TIG weld copper. Runs more amps thant aluminum but you can do it especially with the thin material you are working with.
love the pants
I like that you forged it
Glad that your having as rough a day as I am.
Hey! Just for next time I figured I would mention, you can tig weld copper, I think that would have made life easy.
Glad to see I am not alone in my struggles.
as a southern guy, i must say, your "cmon now" was pretty convincing
Copper can be soft soldered, brazed, welding.
You have an AC / DC WIG welding machine, so you can weld copper.
Only be soldered with a short soft flame.
With an acetylene oxygen set, there is a small tip pure and no cutting burners.
Great job learning to silver solder! I have noticed that you have a wonderful new TIG welder, but did you know that you can use it to actually weld the copper? You can buy filler rod at you local welding supplier, or in your case since you had extra metal you could have just heated the metal with your torch and melted the two sides together. That way you could just heat and forge it like any other part if the katana. Cheers :)
Nice to see that even you have these days. Cheers!
That was pretty satisfying
Miss watching Sam striking. This sword would have been good to see that done on. Hope to see a traditional take down build for the handle!
What a productive day
When sweating copper alloys you do not need much heat but it is just soft soldered. The heat you are using would be ok for silver solder. Keep in mind how little heat a plumber would use but you need flux always even for soft soldering aka sweating. In making trumpets I use acid based flux so the flux is dissolved in acid. Most people would weld it up with modern welding equipment than heat and beat it to the sword for that custom fit. Keep in mind that when not using silver solder if the heat is too high you crystallize the lead.