Hey man! I’m a knife maker myself, been doing it for a few years, and I’ve had a bit of back and forth with will over the years over Instagram. I’m always glad to see people getting in to the hobby. People used to blacksmith with just some fire and stones so it’s always such a lazy excuse to say we can’t make knives without the fancy tools. Fancy tools just make things faster. But they also give you the opportunity to screw up pretty easily. Just wanted to give a few recommendations based on this video, but I plan on watching the other parts just after this. For one, I always keep my table saw blade down fully unless I am using it. I’m always just afraid I am going to accidentally ram something in to it and bend it or crack a tooth or something and There’s always the possibility you accidentally set something on top of it and scratch what you’ve been working on. For your knife itself though, where the blade meats the tang it’s really best to keep that slightly rounded. Of course this can be done at a latter point in making the knife but I figured I’d mention it now. If you keep a hard corner, you’re inviting the operate out for stress to concentrate there and crack the tang. I’m looking forward to the rest of the series! If you want to see some of my own work my Instagram is here: instagram.com/young.knives/?hl=en Well to edit, having a at chef the rest of the series it seems your knife is really coming along! My only comment thus far would be for heat treating, it’s I let’s t to get the knife to a temperature where it’s no longer magnetic. Some guys like to get a long magnet and test the steel to see when it gets to that point. You should attempt to hold it at that temperature for a few minutes, and the plunge it in to your oil. When it’s in the oil, move it back and forth to prevent it from forming a sort of “steam jacket”. This is worse in water but you just want to make sure the steel is in contact with soil that isn’t already hot. Just be sure not to move the k ice side to side as that can cause warping. Then for testing g hardness, your file will usually get a tiny amount of bite. This is because that black oxide coat on the steel isn’t hardeningable and so the file can still dig through that. But the steel underneath is what you should be able to skate like glass. I usually do a couple passes with the file to get through the oxide and make sure that I’m really skating on the raw metal. Your grandpa is totally right on the sound of the file telling you it’s hard. I don’t really know of a good way to describe the sound, but u definitely had it and it’s something you can learn to distinguish. I’m sure you’re used to the regular filing sound by now after all the hand filing work. Hoping to see more updates!
Hey man! I’m a knife maker myself, been doing it for a few years, and I’ve had a bit of back and forth with will over the years over Instagram. I’m always glad to see people getting in to the hobby. People used to blacksmith with just some fire and stones so it’s always such a lazy excuse to say we can’t make knives without the fancy tools. Fancy tools just make things faster. But they also give you the opportunity to screw up pretty easily.
Just wanted to give a few recommendations based on this video, but I plan on watching the other parts just after this. For one, I always keep my table saw blade down fully unless I am using it. I’m always just afraid I am going to accidentally ram something in to it and bend it or crack a tooth or something and There’s always the possibility you accidentally set something on top of it and scratch what you’ve been working on.
For your knife itself though, where the blade meats the tang it’s really best to keep that slightly rounded. Of course this can be done at a latter point in making the knife but I figured I’d mention it now. If you keep a hard corner, you’re inviting the operate out for stress to concentrate there and crack the tang.
I’m looking forward to the rest of the series!
If you want to see some of my own work my Instagram is here: instagram.com/young.knives/?hl=en
Well to edit, having a at chef the rest of the series it seems your knife is really coming along! My only comment thus far would be for heat treating, it’s I let’s t to get the knife to a temperature where it’s no longer magnetic. Some guys like to get a long magnet and test the steel to see when it gets to that point. You should attempt to hold it at that temperature for a few minutes, and the plunge it in to your oil. When it’s in the oil, move it back and forth to prevent it from forming a sort of “steam jacket”. This is worse in water but you just want to make sure the steel is in contact with soil that isn’t already hot. Just be sure not to move the k ice side to side as that can cause warping.
Then for testing g hardness, your file will usually get a tiny amount of bite. This is because that black oxide coat on the steel isn’t hardeningable and so the file can still dig through that. But the steel underneath is what you should be able to skate like glass. I usually do a couple passes with the file to get through the oxide and make sure that I’m really skating on the raw metal. Your grandpa is totally right on the sound of the file telling you it’s hard. I don’t really know of a good way to describe the sound, but u definitely had it and it’s something you can learn to distinguish. I’m sure you’re used to the regular filing sound by now after all the hand filing work.
Hoping to see more updates!
Hey thanks for the advice! I really need to get back to making this knife but had some other projects come up. Hopefully I can get back to it soon!
Pretty awesome bro.
Need some welding done?
Thanks! I don't think I'll need welding on this particular project!
If a 12 year old like Will can do it.... Pffft
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You're wrong the second you bought your Damascus
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Hey, cutie ;) KEEP POSTING
Uh hey :) that's the hope!