Forge A Throwing Knife | Skill Tree
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2024
- What up, Fam? Welcome to Skill Tree, where we learn how to do... just about everything. Today we are learning how to forge a knife! How to forge a THROWING knife, to be specific. This was a crazy fun project. So, get your forges lit and have your hammer at the ready!
PS. Thank you, again @Elwindil for making the suggestion.
Part 1 to this series: Making a Forge • Make A Forge | Skill Tree
Jump to the steps:
Step1 Gathering Materials 0:34
Step2- Prepping The Stock 1:24
Step3- Roughing Out The Shape 2:19
Step4- Shaping Te Handle 3:59
Step5- Refining The Piece 4:50
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Hey Fam! Let me know what you think of my first attempt at forging! Also, let me know if you want me to cover any skill and I'll add it to the list!
Do you have a steel yard in your area? You probably do, if you have a fab shop around. I've found that the steel from a proffesional place is 10x cheaper than the same thing from your choice of blue/orange box
Over the years this dude became more and more energetic and quirky on UA-cam lol
I wal like a deer in the headlights in my old vids LOL
The magnet test is for heat treat only,just hit it while glows
Good to know! Thank you for the tip and for watching!
Rebarb spear would be awesome to make!
Now you should learn to throw knives! It's a great skill that my kids love.
Excellent job, have u thought about a coffee can propane forge and maybe using old lawnmower blade for your blade steel. For your next attempt. Shouldn’t be easy to get cheap/free
Great ideas! I like the thought of the can forge especially. It has been raining for weeks now and it would be nice to be able to forge indoors. I shall add it to the list! Thanks for the tip and for watching!
Great job!!!
You did a great job for your first time keep it up makes you the cleverest clever of them all
I use a piece of rail on its end set into some scrap lumber. It about a 150lb chunk that ends up at my knuckles on its end.
Every blow feels like the sweet spot on as 500 pound anvil.
My ultimate plan is to get a welder buddy to help me weld a proper anvil shape to the top, downside being you need the whole piece at like 500F to make a proper weld, but that is something a massive tiger torch can fix.
Great job man! Keep at it!!
Thanks for the love and for watching!
Only "mistake" I can see, going mostly from watching several seasons of Forged in Fire, is that you skipped the quench stage (or at least didn't mention that step). You want to heat your metal up to a bright-ish yellow. Like a stick of butter kind of yellow, from what I've gathered. And then you dunk it into a container of fluid, be it water, mineral oil, some have even suggested motor oil could work. Definitely something to research deeper. And best to have plenty of open space around you until you get it all figured out as water quenching basically flash-boils the water and it may "spit" and burn stuff (which includes you so gloves, apron, etc. are a good idea) and oil quenching can have rather large flareups of fire. Good way to make sure the metal isn't coole dtoo quickly (which can make it brittle and waste the material) is to heat up a scrap piece and "quench" that, holding it in there for a bit to heat the liquid up. But yea, quenching helps harden the metal to it will hold its edge better. In a way not quenching with rebar might have been the right choice as it is already brittle and as a throwing knife it is going to take a lot of impact, so leaving it soft helps keep it from snapping.
I recently found your channel and as someone who enjoys learning stuff its great. I hope you carry on. Learn how to make a 2 way radio
This is Awesome!!
If you go to any tip and ask for things like railroad spikes or car springs then they are very good for making knives. also plz can u make a vid on casting a ring? cheers I love sure vids:). happy forging
Looks sweet! Forging some gnraly arrow heads would be pretty cool :D
Nice work. Now if you want to level up even more you should get yourself some carbon steel and try heat treating. Its really simple all you need is forge, oil or water and an oven. With a nice wooden handle these knives last a long time.
Hi, Blackwing! Thanks for the tip. I definitely want to try that. I will add it to my list and start reasearching. Hope you like the show!
@@SkillTree looking forward to it. Keep up the good work.
Rebar is high carbon steel FYI
Awesome have wanted to get into smithing for a while, think now I will try it
Great job, especially for an unsupervised first try! The materials properties of that knife probably arent very good, but you could say that about most anything youd buy from walmart
Cool knife lol
I learned making nails and leaves
1st let me say I am a new subscriber and loving your channel, in regards to this video, I'm sure it was said already but to lazy to scroll thru tons of posts, but did you do the heat treatment and just didn't mention it or did you not do the final step to harden your blade ? Thanks for the vids and keep up the awesome job
I didn't only because I had read that the metal in rebar does not hardwn well 😅. This project was more to feel out moving the metal and to test out my forge. I DO show it in my spear video though. I temper it as well. Thank you so much for watching!
Gotcha, as I said in the original post , love your channel , showed it to my mother ( who does a lot of crafting ) and she really enjoys your channel as well
He did a very nice job but you did not clench the metal just when the metal is heated is hot enough you dump it in oil for a few seconds and hardens the steel
wow. I liky. what r those bloks on the forge?
Those are called fire bricks. They are designed to keep heat in. Thanks for watching!
turn your railroad track over, it'll be flat and more area to work, obviously you need to find a way to secure it.
Oh and dont burn paint, the fumes are bad for your lungs
Agreed! I was assured at the home depot that I got the rebar at that it was not painted. In fact, I read that you would need to use an epoxy paint to adhere to the rebar and it is commonly not painted because it would be detrimental to the common application of it (adding structure to concrete). That being said, just because I read it on the internet doesn't make it true! 🤣. Thank you for watching.
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