MAKING STEELE FROM IRON!!!
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My name is Alec Steele and I am a 20 year old blacksmith from Norfolk in the United Kingdom, now living in Montana in the USA! I upload a vlog from my day at the workshop almost every single day. Lots of sparks, lots of making, lots of fantastic-ness. Great to have you here following along!
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Alec Steele Blacksmith 2018 - Розваги
Making a Cavalry Saber: Part 3987 - Chopping down the redwood we grew to make a handle
More like planting the grass to feed the cow that we will kill for the leather strip on the grip
Part 15784 - taking the redwood out of the bog.
I wouldnt be mad hahaha.
Part 4078- We’re going gold mining for the inlay!
Planting the redwood first - LOL
"We're going to go get Colin from the airport."
...Furze?!
"He's an expert--"
Ah, guess not.
I was hoping the same thing. Disappointed....again.
Colin Furze is an expert with knives, he made a rotating belt with them.
...expert in pulsejets and setting stuff on fire.
I was actually part of a experiment here in Norway, together with a Viking age professor. He had a theory about the Vikings used crushed bones heated together with iron to make steel. They have found a lot of crushed bones around forges in old Viking settlements. It actually worked!!! It was awesome to be a part of it.
Sounds brutal, and knowing some history of the vikings, it makes a bit of sense. They used what they had. Just about every piece they made had more than one purpose, passed on to the next generation. Gives a new meaning to "build a civilization on the remains of your enemies."
@@chriskenney8713 exactly 😊 a theory is, when a great warrior died, a family member or maybe someone else would take their bones to make steel and actually forge their spirit in to a weapon, making it powerful and special.
did they use your bones to try it out?
Bone is not used for carburizing iron, but to lower the melting point of the slag when working with difficult ore. Bone is mostly calcium, not carbon. We have also used shells and chalk with the same effect. It really helps softening up the slag making it more liquid.
Need to have details!!
I think it would be awesome if every subscriber from a different country would send you a piece of Steel or iron. So you could forge somerhing with steel from around the world.
Sounds incredible, but not every country produces steel, so the steel would be send from lots of different countries, but the origin of the steel would actually be from a way smaller number of countries.
@@nirfz yeah I forgot that😕
But still a good idea. I like it.
You don't need wrought iron for the process. Any iron/steel scrap material will do it seems, but wrought might be more historically correct and proves that the process really works. It's quite cool actually.
Torbjörn Åhman I
I Love your videos!
I smell a TA/AS/WS colab...
Hmmm.....i was hoping that longboat is finished so you could raid europe once more. Go on mighty Torbjorn
Could you pls make a new video of making steel from iron?
Alec calls home: mom how do you make steel.
Mom: well son your dad and I....
Wasted
😂
Me too lol
LMAO!!!
Allen McKinney no he would say mum not mom 😂
So Alec, if you remember that episode where you tried to forge a meteor, and it didn’t work, it’s because you didn’t do this. Meteors are high in nickel and other impure elements, so you need to melt them down into a bloom, like what you did here. It’s similar to Japanese tamahagane in this way, and if you wanted to actually forge that meteor one day, you should follow a similar process to this.
Another thing meteorite is great for is decorative inlay- due to the unique elemental composition, when tempered it creates all kinds of beautiful colors and would make great detail/decorative pieces.
High nickel steel would actually be far superior to just carbon steel (and far more valuable), but forging it would majorly suck...
Tamahagane on the other hand is made from a bloom, and that has a LOT of various oxides in it, which is why it crumbles like cookies at first and has to be worked so much.
BTW I seriously doubt you'd be able to just forge out nickel "impurities" out of steel, it alloys quite well. Not even the Bessemer process would be able to get rid of nickel from the steel...
@@AKAtheA 718 steel
I hope you have some good security systems Alec, someone might steele your tools and swords.
I was tempted to say something about that a couple of days ago but did not want to jinx them.
Bad pun XD
Wasted.
+1! I used to have nightmares of my shop being robbed until I had a professional security system and cameras installed in it. And my shop is in the back yard. Years ago I had a shop that was a half hour from my house and was also across the street from a bar. Luckily I never got robbed.
Insurance probably doesn't cover it either if his stuff were to get stolen
Well, after discovering your channel a few days ago, I'm all caught up and thoroughly entertained into the bargain. Being a cynical 48 year OLD man, it is heartening and inspiring to see a couple of young millenial men being so driven, bringing such a vital human craft bang up to date for the next generation.
It's very very rare that I am inpired by anything that the younger generation has to offer me, but you have thus inspired me Alec, as I'm going to seek out a blacksmithing course local to me in the UK.
Hey Dave. I have been saying that exact same thing every time I watch one of his vid. I'm 49, live in the U.S., and some friends and I have recently started plans on a blacksmith shop. Just for our own personal stuff for now until we get better at it.
I'm having thoughts of a garden workshop myself over the last year or two, and this lad's vids are giving me added motivation. Good luck
Same to you. Enjoy.
What do mean 48 is old. I'm 67 and find this entertaining. Sometimes its on the level of watching two seventeen year olds trying to figure out how to use a rotary phone but sometimes it goes to the next level of skill and craft and beauty.
"Younger generation has to offer me"
This kind of bothers me..
Alec, you and Will have such good chemistry and humor, but cocooned in this layer after layer of knowledge. It is so fun to watch you two do literally do anything. So stoked you have started a project in the new show!
I agree 100%
Agree too! Like the humor of Will and the positivism of Alec.
Content better then any TV show. I bought your T-shirt, but only because its extra funny here in Canada.
I watch these guys more than I watch T.V. because it is indeed better.
I don´t know why but those new micromotors are familiar to me 💍😂. Amazing iron process Alec!!
Thank you brother!
Something tells me this is going to make the Viking Sword look easy! I’m betting at least 50 episodes!
Adam Turner I think it'll be 28.
32
i think the over/under is 40
@sman7290 ladies & gents, we are now open, please place your bets... O or U 40 episodes or double down payout for the exact # of episodes... THIS EPISODE COUNTS AS #1 as the raw materials were made in-house for the saber build specifically....
happy betting
I hope not. Its nice and all to see Alec make an incredible piece of work, but watching the same thing for 3-4 months is not very pleasant.
Hey, i successfully made my first pair of tongs.
hey, i successfully made my first pair of **NOTHING**
Congrats dude! Keep it up!
congrats man!
Congratulations! Make sure to pass them along to your next generation. Imagine 100 years from now your great, great, great grandson saying to his pals, My great, great...... LOL you get the idea. I cherish the few tools my father left to me. And again congrats.
Congrats!
My 13 year old son was inspired by Alec and today at a demonstration in Michigan, he got to put a hammer on hot steel for the first time. Made a pretty nice hook. Thank you Alec!
You set the bar so high most people wouldn't even attempt such an in-depth project. I am willing to say you once again clear it while making it look easy.
Keep your micro scope coverd
It’s refreshing to see you (finally) back to making stuff! Get on it pure mule boys!!! Can hardly wait to see how this one turns out!
Now THAT brought back some fond memories of smelting "black sand" iron ore from one of our Tucson arroyos! Those blooms you have should be just about enough for your sabre blade. Looking forward to this one!
Soo nice to see you guys actually forging again!! Not that it haven't been fun watching you two goof around getting the shop up and running heeh :P
Completely agree, when I saw fire on the thumbnail I was like YEEEEEAAAAH BOIIIIIZ!
I think Alex is already enjoying the creative craftsmen of America. He mentioned this several months ago that not only are most of his viewers from the US but also many people bringing this art back to life. After much work Alex is back!
I believe his name is Alec, not Alex^^
Do your neighbours come and check out the goings on at the new workshop? Are you an interesting addition to the industrial estate?
I’d be dropping in to check out what you were up to!
I love these themes sooooooo much!!! Theres nothing like seeing and learning on steel manufacturing of the past makes you apericiate it so much more!
Now that's what I'm talking about, less yack yack and more wack wack.
I know what the next merch release design is gonna have
still was lot of yack yack
yes steelified, or carbonafied, I belive the proper term is called carberized for carbonisation of steel, if decarburazation takes is out in the steelmaking process, and a hard facing flame from a torch is a carburizing flame.
Colins hair seems to be in danger🤔😃 love the more experimental content, just because it's stuff I am able to try reproducing at home😄
Yeah, forging with long hair just doesn't seem like a good life choice.
@@AdministrativeReload He said baldingly.
aww...don't scalp the poor guy over it.. :)
Theres a bunch of us with big beards that dont catch on fire when forging, not much of a difference if ya ask me.
I have a friend who's a long time smith...has a tremendous beard....he says when he first grew it out, he just tucked it inside his apron.....later, after playing AD&D , his wife and daughter took the idea and started braiding it, in ever more elaborate braids. There have been times he's had brass rings and such...he still tucks it in, more to keep it out of his way than anything else....
Carboneified should be a shirt
Agreed
Kind of reminds me of the Carboniferous Period
But the merch price would be a Steele!
How about carbonified steele ?
Carbonafide?
I love the discovery, the learning, the enthusiasm of your videos.
The zeal with which you attack these projects, breathes life into my for blade smithing.
Thanks!
I started following you about 5 months ago with the Viking sword build. By watching you and the work you do, you have inspired me to go for it and try blacksmithing. I found a local group and went today Saturday the 19th of January 2019 and made my very first piece, a fire place poker. Then I find out the group I'm learning from is the same where you learned. Mississippi Forge Council in Jackson Mississippi. Jim Pigott and the folks there are awesome. I know this is long winded but I wanted to thank you Alec for I inspiring me to go and learn. I hope to make many more pieces in the future but I want you to know you started it.
Someone make sure that Colin has a spliff at regular intervals.....cheers
Nice to have you back at the anvil and power hammer. !
Indeed!
I've been following you and will for awhile, but only recently stumbled across this and wanted to point out that the "bolt" you talked about when you were looking for pieces of wrought, is actually a tent stake lol. My dad's second gen. business puts tents up for weddings/parties and they've got like a thousand of those. they're used to hold the straps (wratchets in to keep the tent up) Pretty cool to see they have some all the way out in Montana! Learned alot about blacksmithing from you two, It really helped when I first started. Thank you.
Awesome, I want to build a bloomery probably next winter, and make a bloom from ore. Neat to see the process simplified. I may try something like this this year. Thanks for posting
Love the tip about lump charcoal rather than briquets. Briquets have chemicals in them that will contaminate your “steele”. So for folks like me smithing in the backyard with basic setups here’s another tip: if you switch to coal get bituminous coal not anthracite for the same reason you’d choose lump charcoal over briquets. Anthracite is higher in sulfur and will contaminate the metal you’re working with.
Opposite, dude. Bituminous is far dirtier; that's why I use anthracite.
Mark Lowry you are correct. Thanks for catching that, I was apparently misinformed.
You guys are great! Thanks for the hours of entertainment of reqatching all your videos mate!!
16:18 Colin is hammering in the background and knocks his piece onto the ground. I actually laughed out loud. Looks great guys. Loving the forge getting fired back up again.
I will be beginning to build my 1st forge thanks to you Alec. I am someone who also can appreciate the beauty of something made by hand and i so happen to love fire! So naturally blacksmithing would be something that I would gravitate to. Thank you Alec for igniting this new passion in me!
Here in Finland people who become doctors (MD, PhD, d.Lit etc) get their own sword. It would be super awesome if you tried replicating the Finnish style doctors swords.
Is this actually a real thing?? Because if it is i may become a citizen for a sword 😂
@@Isogyre_ yes it is a real thing. Just Google "doctoral sword" and you'll find pictures and everything. You have to enroll in a University and complete a postgraduate degree here, which takes several years (just the Masters degree takes like 4 years, and to be enrolled in the graduate school you need a few years of work experience in your field.)
Great seeing you brainstorming ideas, after such a big move, can't wait for your projects, also, can't wait for my hoodie to arrive in the UK 🇬🇧 good job guys
Micromotor hand pieces are absolutely life changing for very small detail work.
I honestly think that blacksmithing and brewery are both professions that have a certain magic feeling to it. Something so brute and raw and transform it to pure beauty and functionality. I absolutely love it and respect both of them. Cheers Alec!
I mentioned this is the last video but in case you didn't see it: I have a Civil War Officer's Calvary Saber which belonged to a relative. The hand made leather scabbard is some impressive craftsmanship. Unfortunately for the sword and it's enemies it was not ceremonial and it and the scabbard are well used and worn down. It would be GREAT to see you put some effort into leather working for this sword.
I also have a Civil war saber. The leather on the hilt is shark skin. To give you a good grip. Shark skin is like 60 or 80 grit sandpaper!
You should make a damascus playbutton
I second this build nomination!
I'm planning to do something similar to this on our farm to get a use out of the mountains of old broken wires and scrap iron.
As always... An excellent and entertaining display!
Keep on hammering.
I find it fantastic to see so muuch young talent out there and picking up rather ambitious projects! Colin was a nice addition for this project!
I saw this on my feed a couple of hours ago but I had chores to do so im excited to see this just from the title
Edit: just finished watching the video and I can't wait to see this 28 part series on a calvary sword
28? You mean 118?
It will be worth it tho
yeah man Daily Steele is getting back on track!!!! Man, can't wait to see how this turns out... ok, break time, gonna watch... have a great day, take it easy... Damn, I didn't know Dave Mustaine was into making more than one type of "Metal" 😄😋😜.... (sorry, I'm old I've been a Megadeth fan since the early 80's, that long curly hair makes him look like Dave Mustaine)
I knew he reminded me of someone. MEGADAVE
@@justsomerandompleb yeah man...
James Hadfield... Metallica was never the same once he left. Load/reload ware their finest albums. They realy rocked the 90s...
Absolutely love watching you bring in other smiths, i would love to see this channel turn in to one that you bring other smiths in to help build absolutely amazing pieces of art
I loved the MAKING STEELE FROM IRON!!! episode. And although my shop isn't quite where I want it to be yet, I did get to do an experiment with wrought iron and carborization. Its unlikely you'll do this again in the near future, but if you do I've got a suggestion. In my experiment, I forge welded two billets of iron together, one I smelted myself (with the help and advice from the crew of the Louisiana Metalsmiths Association) and another billet that I purchased a while back. I forged the resulting billet into a knife blade. I asked around about how to transform the blade into a hadenable state, and I was led to the pack-carborization process. Its relatively easy and you should consider it in the future. By carborizing the iron in blade shape, the edge took in plenty of carbon and skates a file well, after quenching. Anyway, keep up the good work!
You guys did great. Would reheat them consolidated pieces some more and hammer them down a bit more.
Alec you should re melt that meteorite to take the impurities out
something i have found is my workspace is never done, its ever evolving and changing, this is the best way to find out whats missing from yours is by taking on a new challenge. cant wait to see it done.
So cool to watch you taking on even more parts of the metalworking process, maybe once you've gotten the hang of bloomery steel you should try making wootz crucible steel.
Great to see you getting back to the fun work😀😀
Yep, this project has been worth the wait.
Depending on how he goes with it, it will definitely be the most challenging thing he has encountered so far.
I love your speaking voice and mannerisms. I was browsing blacksmithing videos for research, found yours and fell in love, sir. Keep up the good work and energy.
Awesome to see you are getting everything set in your new shop.
You dont know how flipping long ive been waiting for this
The backyard Blacksmith 3 months like all of us
Valentino Deerpalsing no more like 14 months
My brother and I just got our first knife makers forge last weekend and what we have been using up until now was lump charcoal and forced air from a cheap blow dryer cant wait for spring to start forging. Forge is perfect for hardening steel indoors during the winter though.
Good to see you've got your shop on its feet. Giving it the old college try on this steel manufacture.
I think what amaze me the most with your channel is how much you know about making metal things and in the same time how much you still learn everyday with a lot of humility.
Make sure to do a side project if you get stuck on one detail for too long. The Viking Sword was cool and I watched each and every episode but somewhere during the gold enlaying it got a bit long. I was glad with the intern knife projects.
I know what you mean. With Will on board too, and the workshop close to set up, I'm sure there will be more content, when one is doing long tedious work
@@ProfessionalPTGuy I agree, but I'm stoked for the sabre.
@@pascalmanders5781 Oh man it's going to be amazing!
@@ProfessionalPTGuy Would fun if they would do a project reusing some of the packaging materials from the move
Love your vids been watching for over the year keep op the good work
I wonder if you could jury rig Bessemer process(perhaps using the shop vac for the air source?) for a future endeavor. I love the thought of how that might be practically done for small scale tests like this bloom process was. I can't wait for part two!
So happy to see the fires burning and you actually forging again. Watching the setup was ok, but this much better.
Cant wait till tomorrow video comes out
Are your neighbors wondering why that crazy Brit is BBQing in winter :)
Lol, not in Montana. He probably got the idea from his neighbors
Whats amazing is the research I assume you do, for all the tools they make for every aspect of your craft
making your own charcoal is quite easy and extremely satisfying. Also, perfect by-product is heat, which is great for winters in your shop.
Really awesome video.
hi alec love your video keep up the work
I do like how fire burning brings real personalities of these good smiths.
Nice to see you all happy and working)
14:43 Perfectly timed nods
French flag on the workshop wall, yeah! Always a pleasure to see your vid Alec & Will from Paris.
French steel... it bends the moment it gets near any sort of heat.
Tisha Hayes 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@TishaHayes France is not known as a steel producing country, that's why we mostly import US steel... So I don't know what to think about your comment.
@@BMatt-df8yc Its a joke based off the "French always surrender" stereotype.
12:16 "Dibs on whack." I don't why I thought that was so funny.
_doesn't get to whack_
Excited about this project, and awesome way to get it started!
Awesome! It's been great seeing you guys get your new shop set up and put together, but it's also really cool to see a new project get under way! Can't wait to see how it turns out.
So Alec, in the UK you were putting out 4K videos. Everything has been in 1080 from the states so far. Is there plans in the works to start producing in 4K stateside soon?
Like it makes a big difference, 1080 or 4k never meant to much. However having 60fps, now that's a must.
Who's the camera person?
he/she is wasted
don't know but they are giving me motion sickness...
@@angel102ify me2
@@angel102ify same
@@angel102ify they need a 3 axis stabilizer
good to see you getting back to it Alec. good on ya
Good to see you guys getting back to ur craft can't wait to see how it works out
I can't help but think there is a plan in motion here. What is the thing They are not telling us- the motivator? Why the move? Why the Serious ,Multi-user shop , what is the business plan that makes this make sense.... and In Montana. I smell TV show.
Buhp
I agree, more behind the scenes details please. Big picture stuff, what's the long game? The suspense is killing me!
Man at arms: reforged STEELE......maybe.....lol
The biggest assumption for the move has been the UK weapons laws. There was a lawsuit in Britain where a guy was found carrying a box knife on his person at work. He worked in a warehouse, unpacking boxes, was an upstanding citizen, etc. The knife was crucial to his job. He still got fined for carrying and using it.
For a blacksmith who creates knives and swords and sells them for a living? Not much market over there... Hence the move to the US. :)
My running hypothesis for the quick move was more in response to Article 13, having a state side address could go a long way.
When he said Colin i thought colin furze was gonna be on, then i was disappointed
So excited to watch this new build in the new shop!
I've been hoping you would give bloom steel a try for a long time. Consolidation is a really cool process! I look forward to the next part.
I still think you need a workshop dog. I have two Rottweilers they would have been laying near the forge soaking up the heat.
That would be epic
I like the Texas flag you have ,it is in good company with the U.S. and G.B. flags.
I am so looking forward to seeing what y’all come up with ! And now this sword honestly should be worth more too since you are making the Steel from scratch
Great to see you guys getting started on a proper project again. Looking forward to seeing the process
Dave mustain the black smith
I remember the old days when Alec replied to my comments... How I miss our conversations
😟
Alec Steele oh my... You replied! How are you buddy?
It's hard being a busy man bud :)
this has got to be one of my favorite episodes of all time! awesome stuff! so excited to see you getting things up and running! so ready for your first usa build!
YES seeing some forging and sparks again!! Love it guys.
zoom out a bit, mount camera on tripod, make viewing easier for your viewers.
I like it when he gets up close and personal with the camera. I can see the dirt on his face and the steam on his glasses. Makes me so hot under the collar. I wish he'd give me a few lessons how ro work that steel rod and give it a good bashing with the power hammer. He's so good.
Who else spotted that in the background at 16:20 😂😂
Elite gamer X25 I didn’t anything?
Pest Brigade the steel fell off the anvil
king of random is that all. Ok.
😂😂😂
Alec, I absolutely love the project! Extremely happy to see the start of a project! The work shop has been fun, but SABOR! Thanks for sharing..
Alec, all your content is top shelf, but every now and then you do something really fun and special in a video. This was one of those.
Can you make damaskus brake rotors for a bicycle mabye you can work with the guys from GMBN GlobalMountainBikeNetwork @Gmbn
Or for a motorcycle
That should work if the majority is high carbon steele. Cars are usually cast, but I don't see why damascus wouldn't work on a bike.
ummm. why bother
I think it would put excessive wear on the brake pads because the two different steels will wear at different rates, then make the rotor almost like a file
Shalor McKee they could do a Damascus of the same steel for less difference in wear
Hey Alec, have you been shooting yet since moving to the States?
HE NEEDS TO DO A COLAB WITH DEMILTION RANCH
@@Lunch_box Or head down to Arizona and do a 2 gun match with Ian and Karl.
Or forge some crazy slugs to send to Taofledermaus (sp?)
@@wingracer1614 taogaydermouse is a scammer... he doesnt support anybody just uses people for views and shoots the same stuff all day... demolition ranch actually cares about his fans and does real reviews on guns, plus I'm from Texas originally so I'm always going to support the demolita over anybody in commifornia
I don't think he's still in high school
@@fitrianhidayat... huh? What does this have to do with being in high school?
This was a nice surprise and a fitting start to the new shop
FINALLY. Glad to see the shop is almoooost ready. Can’t wait for more swords and knives!