I very much like watching you work your steel and knives. I once was a fairly serious knife maker, working with Devin Thomas quite a bit over the years. I finally burned clear out and closed my shop for almost a decade. Now I'm fully retired from my "career job" and am getting ready to jump back into knives. Watching channels like yours is really a big help, thanks so much for putting out great content!
Beauty! First one of your vids I’ve seen. Built my boy a forge a few years ago, he got into it a little, I want to start forging soon. He’s now in culinary classes, I’d like to get him one of these from you.
5:00 I only knew of the dragon's breath drug from Columbia, not the carbon. 7:18 You would be more comfortable if that power hammer sat a foot higher. You really bend over a lot to use it. That nickel really gave a cool-looking pattern to a cool-looking knife.
Im so happy you made this video. I have a bunch of sawmill bandsaw blades from work. Ive been tempted to use them. However i use them until they break. So im sure the steel has all kinds of cracks in it.
I really enjoy your channel and watching your process. Upvoted, shared, commented (obviously), subscribed, bell rung and liked .... may the algorithm gods smile favorably upon your channel. 👍🏼👍🏿👍🏽👍🏾👍🏻
@@thomaslindroos1667 huge lawn, old farm site, probably 4+ acres of grass. Takes 3 hours to mow with a 54” deck at about 7-8 mph. They go dull fast so I sharpen about every other mowing to keep it cutting nice so I can go as fast as I do. They only last so long.
That cladding turned out very cool. Reminds me of wrought iron in some ways. I also like how the nickel and cladding were spotted through the edge steel but not quite on the edge. I'm working on a hjartum style axe with 1045 body with 5160 edge.
Nice! I agree with your decision to use known steel for the core. I do suspect that eventually your grinder leavings are going to find their way into a canister with some 1084 powder . . . .
I tend to go high heat for welding it just adds a safety factor and you can see in the vid that your getting much higher temps with new forge , new blade too , my wife wants a matching set of kitchen knives and I think one like that one will make it into the set
I figured you accumulated grindings, but thats way more than I imagined. Thanks for showing that, interesting stuff. Also the sound of the hammer hitting the steel sounded way softer than I remember, guess its that higher heat.
Like others have said, bandsaw blades are usually 15N20 and heat treat well. You can always test harden a chunk. Generally, if a piece is as thin as a bandsaw blade and has a good spring to it, it should heat treat fine. Nice work man!
I was wondering if you could make anything from the bucket of shavings after a grind or is the material not viable enough for making something. Stay safe.
I am wondering which bandsaw blades you use. I use the Lennox bimetal blades. The teeth are M42 high speed steel. No clue as to how it would forge or weld together. I use mine for cutting up bowl blanks. I am into wood in this life line. In another life line, I would have been a blacksmith...
Great video as usual and love the way the nickel turned out too, one for a future project and a question Fire Creek Forge: Wouldn't it be that little bit easier if I used a mortice chisel for hidden tangs?
I wonder if all that waste material from your grinding (when you cleaned out the water bucket) is recoverable and maybe useful for some other project that doesn't require a high quality steel?
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I really like the nickel foil. It really pops.
Love the nickel coastline.
Always like watching your vids
I have always loved your knife skills
Very good job my friend
The pattern kinda looks like the Japanese islands. Really nice looking knife. 🤜🤛
Nice knife!
An exciting pattern in this blade.
I am commenting just to try and help out! I have nothing of note to say other than nice job! Thanks for sharing
Turned out great.
I very much like watching you work your steel and knives. I once was a fairly serious knife maker, working with Devin Thomas quite a bit over the years. I finally burned clear out and closed my shop for almost a decade. Now I'm fully retired from my "career job" and am getting ready to jump back into knives. Watching channels like yours is really a big help, thanks so much for putting out great content!
Nice, thanks for watching!
What I like about your channel is, you make it like I'm hanging out with a friend. Just BSing out back in the shop building.
Nice work 👍👍👍
Nice looking blade!!
Great video as always.
Real nice Thanks
Thanks for sharing this with us 🙏
Beauty! First one of your vids I’ve seen. Built my boy a forge a few years ago, he got into it a little, I want to start forging soon. He’s now in culinary classes, I’d like to get him one of these from you.
Very nice!!
Beautiful!
Came out pretty cool Brother!
Beautiful
Nice build. A popular blade shape lately.
Make a blade from the shavings cool idea
The desert ironwood handle is my favorite aspect.
Nice looking kitchen knife
Good looking knife, A+ 💥💥💥💥💥
Nice balance between the blade and handle.
another beautiful knife Elijha i love it Mark 😀👍👍✌
Thank you sir
Cool pattern, neat how you got little islands of the cladding.
ooh what a lovely blade , it goes beautifully with the ironwood grain too
That turned out beautiful
That nickel move really paid off. Great video, really loved the shape of the blade.
Holy smokes! What an absolute art my friend, excellent work.
Dayum! That's a knife I'd be proud to use in my kitchen! That really turned out to be a unique and beautiful blade.
Thank you
Amazing job!
Surely you've got to make a blade or two with all those grindings!
Excellent work. 👍👍
Thanks!!
Sweet , thx
Cool piece man, as I eyeball the stack of bandsaw blades in the corner…..😉
excellent work
Love the Canadian tuxedo lol
Most bandsaw blades are 15N20. Made several billets from metal bandsaw blades and they worked great. Harden and hold an edge well!!!!
That came out fantastic !
This knife is very cool. It would be a great add6to my kitchen.
Beautiful, and the commentary is, as always, very informative!
Very nice
Wow! The pattern in the blade turned out amazing! As others said the contrast between the cladding and the nickel is gorgeous! Thanks again Elijah!
Wow, that came out really beautiful !
That is a beautiful knife. I prefer those more random and dynamic patterns over the more controlled ones (stars, explosions, dobble us, twists..). 👍👍
One thing that makes interesting videos is taking absolute crap like those belt grinder shavings and turning them into a master piece.
Nice knife
Mad skills. Thanks for sharing your knowledge 😊
5:00 I only knew of the dragon's breath drug from Columbia, not the carbon.
7:18 You would be more comfortable if that power hammer sat a foot higher. You really bend over a lot to use it.
That nickel really gave a cool-looking pattern to a cool-looking knife.
Im so happy you made this video. I have a bunch of sawmill bandsaw blades from work. Ive been tempted to use them. However i use them until they break. So im sure the steel has all kinds of cracks in it.
I really enjoy your channel and watching your process. Upvoted, shared, commented (obviously), subscribed, bell rung and liked .... may the algorithm gods smile favorably upon your channel. 👍🏼👍🏿👍🏽👍🏾👍🏻
Old lawn mower blades usually seem to be made of good steel. I go through a couple sets a year so it’s nice to have a second use for them.
A couple a year!? What are you mowing? Bedrock??
@@thomaslindroos1667 huge lawn, old farm site, probably 4+ acres of grass. Takes 3 hours to mow with a 54” deck at about 7-8 mph. They go dull fast so I sharpen about every other mowing to keep it cutting nice so I can go as fast as I do. They only last so long.
Mower blades are typically 1045. JD blades are 1080.
Nice, I will try to make a video or two on my knife making skills in The future
That cladding turned out very cool. Reminds me of wrought iron in some ways. I also like how the nickel and cladding were spotted through the edge steel but not quite on the edge. I'm working on a hjartum style axe with 1045 body with 5160 edge.
such great work!! 😊
Looks awesome!!
Great video, thank you for sharing! I would love to see you do what I've heard referred to as "dinosaur/trashcan" Damascus
Absolutely gorgeous. Fine work.
Beautiful work as always
Thanks!
Excellent presentation. You're truly a gifted individual.
Nice! I agree with your decision to use known steel for the core. I do suspect that eventually your grinder leavings are going to find their way into a canister with some 1084 powder . . . .
I did this once to make damasteel. Turned out great these blades are great steel to use. And as always awesome work!
You can tell that the forge was heating the material much hotter than before by the color. Looks like the forge is definitely working.
I would like to see you make a knife out of the steel grindings that might be pretty cool and a way to reuse some of that metal
Which steel is the most darkest when etching, and does coffee makes it even darker?
I tend to go high heat for welding it just adds a safety factor and you can see in the vid that your getting much higher temps with new forge , new blade too , my wife wants a matching set of kitchen knives and I think one like that one will make it into the set
Can you make a blade out of those shavings? It be a nice project/ video to make in the near future
Nice blade width.
You could make a neat knife with the shavings from the bucket.
Are the bucket shavings reusable?
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I figured you accumulated grindings, but thats way more than I imagined. Thanks for showing that, interesting stuff.
Also the sound of the hammer hitting the steel sounded way softer than I remember, guess its that higher heat.
That's a very good looking bunka for sure, depending on the supplier you can sometimes end up with some 15N20 in band saw blades or more rarely L6.
Great looking pattern, I could definitely put a blade like that to work at my BBQ SMOKER!
What are all the flakes that come off when hammering? Is that metal, do you lose a lot of metal during the whole process?
9:59- I've always wondered if that stuff could be used for Iron powder or smelted into an ingot of some kind.
Vraiment magnifique.
Like others have said, bandsaw blades are usually 15N20 and heat treat well. You can always test harden a chunk. Generally, if a piece is as thin as a bandsaw blade and has a good spring to it, it should heat treat fine. Nice work man!
all the lenox saw blades i have checked on our OES were around 1030 carbon steel..
Could you make a blade out of bandsaw blades and fish hooks?
I was wondering if you could make anything from the bucket of shavings after a grind or is the material not viable enough for making something. Stay safe.
We have a knife maker at our job and he claims that the bandsaw blades are m1. Our blades are for cutting aluminum. But I think it's the same stuff
I am wondering which bandsaw blades you use. I use the Lennox bimetal blades. The teeth are M42 high speed steel. No clue as to how it would forge or weld together. I use mine for cutting up bowl blanks. I am into wood in this life line. In another life line, I would have been a blacksmith...
As always...great video. Could you show your new forge in detail? I'm about to build one myself and am curious about yours.
Offer still stands to teach you to Tig weld when you're ready.
Thanks man
Can't you use the steel shavings in a canister build for a knife, a hatchet, or something, as the main steel or in place of powdered steel?
Yes I believe so
Beautiful knife 👍🏼 When do you stamp your knives during heat treating? And does it cause any warping? Thanks
Great video as usual and love the way the nickel turned out too, one for a future project and a question
Fire Creek Forge:
Wouldn't it be that little bit easier if I used a mortice chisel for hidden tangs?
Shavings blade??
So, could you make a blade using the grinder shavings?
What advise would you give someone that wants to go into blade/knife making
Start with whatever and however you can!
@@FireCreekForge Oh okay thank you because I want to go into blade making
@@willemvonmohlman2635 if you go back in my videos I have a series on building a knife with simple hand tools like an angle grinder, hand drill, etc..
@@FireCreekForge Thank you I will go and have a look
What is the liquid you did the material into before putting it into the forge
Diesel
Hi dear friend
Is that white powder that you add to hot metal is Borax?
Why you add it? What work it do?
As a non blade smith I’m curious, are the shavings you pulled from the water bucket usable for a future project or are they useless???
So you you take orders for knives to be custom made?
I take orders on occasion, mostly I sell ready made product on my website.
I wonder if all that waste material from your grinding (when you cleaned out the water bucket) is recoverable and maybe useful for some other project that doesn't require a high quality steel?