English and speak Brittish? Just wait a sec... Brittish and speak English? Wait... err What the hell? ARGH!! LOL! Aluminum, Aluminium... Everyone is right! 😁Thanks and I still really hope to see another Alec impersonation video from Jamie. :)
@@TomsBackyardWorkshop yeah, mounting evidence shows vaping 1) does not work to help with nicotine addiction and 2) is worse for you than cigarettes in every possible way.
A lot of hand saw plates are CS85 or CS95 steel, I have dozens of dull blades that I cut up and grind to make bespoke card scrapers when matching timber mouldings. A video worth watching on how traditional hand saws were made would be the ones that Ken Hawley recorded in Sheffield back in the '90s when the industry was dying off, they're available on UA-cam.
The difference between traditional saws and modern one (in part) is the hardening. Old saws had the whole panel hardened and tempered. Modern ones, only the teeth are hardened so sharpening would require hardening tempering then sharpening. Or throw it out and buy a new one.
@@williamjudge4913 Yes, and the best saws were taper ground as well, thicker at the teeth and thinner at the top of the saw. I think the only person left in Britain that makes saws in such a manner is Shane Skelton.
@@williamjudge4913I'm thankful I was taught to sharpen saws. I can get my grandpa's ancient panel saw much sharper and sharper linger than the one I bought a few years ago.
I think it was Essential Craftsman that had some good saw sharpening videos . He did logging work at one point. And his conversations with Cy (Sy?) Swan are amazing. (I know he's done stuff about chainsaw maintenance, bit I think he's done some on this has as well )
Will: "Ive become a master bladesmith and want to perfect the Kitchen Knife and all its variants" Alec: "haha big household items" And im here for both of em
Perfectly reasonable omission when your ad-libbing. If it were me, .001 second after it came out of my mouth, I'd stop and slap myself for not realizing there was still a solution available to calculate total weight.😂
One of the best informational programs there is. That and How Do They Do It made me appreciate all kinds of stuff, and the work and effort put into them.
I love that words like "kerf" exist. If you don't use saws a whole lot, you probably didn't think you needed a word for the slot cut by a saw, but I'm sure that for many people in history, it was so important that it was given a one syllable word so you could say it a lot.
Alec, I know there's probably detractors that are upset you're not just doing another damascus weapon but I really love these little projects that you're clearly excited about. Not only is it fresh new content, it's genuinely enjoyable seeing you excited about the project.
Gosh, the banter between you two always make me smile. There's a sadness that you left Montana in your awesome workshop there, but damn having Jamie back has been such a treat. Keep it up, y'all!
The shot of the "Shop Crocs" @ 1:37 brought about a question. They're not Crocs, I know. But either way, how much heat can they take before your toe beans are in danger?
Hope there will be some hand forging soon, as its my favorite, always like the troubleshooting though. And i thing that a pepper mill could be an interesting project to make.
*Sand blasting cabinet suggestion. Source a big old office printer with scanning bed. The tempered glass those things were made with is quite special. Use it to replace the viewing glass on the cabinet, especially useful if the blasting agent you use is particularly harsh as it will wear slower and be less prone to chips and pitting. Pretty sure Jason from Fireball Tools did something similar with his big cabinet, but he needed two panels and a custom frame to make it work.
I just use clear vinyl like a screen protector and stick it to the inside glass. When it gets too hard to see through after wiping it off, I peel it off and put a new one on. I don't sandblast a whole lot, but they typically last half a year while using it maybe once or twice for a half hour or so every few days. I've also learned that being mindful of where the "ricochet" of the media will end up helps to reduce wear on the protector, and a good vacuum to provide a lot of air exchange helps to keep the air and window dust free.
I'm pretty old! My father taught me how to hand set and sharpen saws, chisels, plane blades, all sorts of stuff when I was a kid. It's a dying art these days.
I love these 'small' projects, genuinely my favourites are things like the carabiner and your pen builds. Just have fun! We love the energy no matter the project!
I think it'd be pretty cool to see Alex and Jamie do a podcast together. You guys seem to vibe really well and I think it'd make some both fun and informative content.
Hey! The points on the saw blades you purchased are point hardened or "Impulse" hardened. basically, the blade it self is soft and flexible, but the teeth are hardened to such a degree that you would need a diamond file to sharpen it.. They do tend to stay sharper longer, but most people thro them away and buy a new one when they get dull.
That's right, they are not considered to be worth sharpening by woodworkers. Back in the day the teeth werent hardened this way which meant they got dull quicker, but were quite easily sharpened.
Finally Back to Forging!!!!! 💪💪👊🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 Thank You Alec, this is what brought me to your channel as a Subscriber years ago, and to be Honest the videos in recent times I just FF through. Forging though, Can't Get Enough!! The Katana build was one of your Best Build Series in your Channels History, Get Back to Your Roots, PLEASE & THANK YOU!!!
Great fun video as usual! Hook upp the shop vac to the sandblasting cab and run it on low-medium speed and you will get great visibility in the cabinet. I have the same type and had the same problem. I would also upgrade the light in the cabinet. Atleast if it is as dim as mine. Maybe just stick a good led flashlight with a magnet in there. 👍👍
I'm going to make sure to save all of the videos from this series. In the future, if I'm ever in a bind and happen to: - have 10 small saws and need 1 slightly larger one - for some reason can't go to a store, *and* - happen to have an entire workshop handy ...then I'll know exactly what to do. 😂
Most high end saws were tempered to be rather soft so that a user can sharpen his own saw with a file. The cheap hardware saws generally have hardened teeth because they are disposable. That is also why they have crappy plastic handles compared to the ornate and ergonomic wooden ones that you see in a lot of fine woodworking shops.
The weight of 1 saw blade before he grinds them down and welds them is not going to tell him how much steel he has. 1- they're not identical after grinding. 2- welding them adds weight.
0:18 Um Alec, I don't think that's how you use a saw... 0:50 No, that's an anvil 1:15 I don't think you're making progress here 2:30 Ok, you're getting closer now but the teeth go the other way
As a 3rd generation carpenter who was made to learn how to use hand tools before i could touch any power tools this one was pretty cool. Showing this to my grandpa tomorrow. Hes always said a real carpenter still uses hand tools. I still use one of his old planers and I don't go to any job without the rule he taught me to measure with.
I seem to remember you making WranglerStar a beautiful pickeroon! Long time viewer, I think I started watching you just after you got out of your first workshop with the dirt floors and leaky roof.
To make your view in the sanblaster better, you need to hook up a dust extractor to the exhuast port on it. It will also make your blast media work more effectively due to most of the fine dust removed.
NHK World did quite an interesting video on the making of Japanese pull saws where modern manufacturing was pitted against traditional handmade. Have you ever made a Japanese pull saw?
I swear my brain is broken because after seeing you use the power hammer to break the plastic handles, i wanna see ya try and forge plastic 😂 it would be interesting to see if it works with the heat generated
Traditionally saws were hardened enough to spring back into shape if bent (within reason) but not as hard as most other cutting tools. They may have needed sharpening relatively often but that was easily done with a file. In more recent times the teeth only have been hardened more, as shown in the video you found. They stay sharp for longer but can't be practically sharpened when they do get blunt. If the whole plate was hardened to the same degree there'd be a big risk of the entire thing snapping. Traditional Japanese saws are harder than western ones but cut on the pull and beginners still manage to snap them.
My granddad had a few old saw that he used to re sharpend. He used a wide clamp and triangle file to form them, then a setting tool that looked similar to a hole punch.
This feels like one of those videos where they had no idea for a video or they have a bigger video that is taking longer than expected so they threw out a random idea and said yeah that will work.
You should have put in an ad to ask for old worn out saw blades and other metal tools of varying kinds. That might be the next project for a damascus forge with some interesting results given the mix of materials you'd get. Some saw blades are actually built from different materials in the blade and the teeth.
Modern saw plates on mass market saws are spring tempered and the teeth are hardened after sharpening and setting. Old saws and good craftsman made modern saws the teeth are not hardened, the plate is given a nice even temper so that they can be sharpened with a file.
There are different types of saws. Cross cut saws will have set and sharpened at angles. There are rip saws that have less set and sharpened perpendicular to the body.
Saws with darker coloured teeth: These are the types of saws to avoid when looking for a saw. Only the teeth are hardened, so sharpening is out of the question, once dull it is ready to throw away. Proper saws are heat treated all the way, this allows for them to be sharpened over and over again. I have a few marvelous exemples of that where the saw is reduced to a little strip of metal over many many years of use.
Honestly, Alec should just make videos that make him happy and excited, but I really miss the long knife and sword builds. I really don't care to watch the making of a ball point pen or whatever.
@@LoganKearsley thats soo cool!! But he should go after the description from the books, because I always found it better in my imagination than what they made in the series
I dunno, I quite like watching the problem solving and machining involved with making small mechanical things like pens and lighters and stuff. To each their own though, I honestly enjoy both.
This reminds me of those reels where someone drills a hole, taps it, fills it with a bolt, welds it in, grinds it off, drills a hole, taps it, fills it with a bolt......
The tooth don't NEED to be set, but they it's really nice to have with a panel saw. Japanese pullsaws don't have set teeth and they cut like butter. The teeth do get clogged up a little easier, especially when ripping.
In the Alps I once saw a simple contraption to bend the teeth of the saws used by lumberjacks, it is basically a lever that presses on the tooth, since the punch is close to the fulcrum you have quite a lot of force, with little but precise range of motion thanks to a rivet that made shure you can't push further than a certain angle, it shouldn't be too complicated to build and shuld make the work quick and even.
Old artisan sawblades were not hardened. This means that they are easily sharpened and the teeth do not fall off. Modern saws are disposable, meaning once they get dull, that is it. So, what you are doing with the saw here is not strictly traditional, but it is rather clever and should (with all learning errors aside) be a high quality saw.
This would be a pivot point that I would consider given its thickness and go a sword with a exotic handle. However this could be the making of a dado cutting saw given the thickness.
My only slight complaint is while it is technically damascus it also isn't as the pattern is still on the edge rather than the surface. Main reason this slightly bugs me is I've always loved Alec's damascus work most of all and really been wishing he'd do some more, especially his unique patterns such as flags, in fact I've wondered for a while now if he could take it as far as having lettering in the pattern to spell out words.
Fyi, a lot of the "quench" when hardening the saw teeth comes from the cold saw body. I think you'll still need an oil quench if you heat the teeth with a torch.
Jamie was right, we should've used 20 saws. Go to tryfum.com/ALECSTEELE and use code ALECSTEELE to save an additional 10% off your order today.
YOU'RE one big saw!
English and speak Brittish? Just wait a sec... Brittish and speak English? Wait... err What the hell? ARGH!! LOL! Aluminum, Aluminium... Everyone is right! 😁Thanks and I still really hope to see another Alec impersonation video from Jamie. :)
Everyone who ive ever known who tried to quit smoking with a vape now has a vaping habbit and most of them still smoke.
@@TomsBackyardWorkshop yeah, mounting evidence shows vaping 1) does not work to help with nicotine addiction and 2) is worse for you than cigarettes in every possible way.
I would look at reviews for this company. It's getting slammed lol
A lot of hand saw plates are CS85 or CS95 steel, I have dozens of dull blades that I cut up and grind to make bespoke card scrapers when matching timber mouldings. A video worth watching on how traditional hand saws were made would be the ones that Ken Hawley recorded in Sheffield back in the '90s when the industry was dying off, they're available on UA-cam.
The difference between traditional saws and modern one (in part) is the hardening. Old saws had the whole panel hardened and tempered. Modern ones, only the teeth are hardened so sharpening would require hardening tempering then sharpening. Or throw it out and buy a new one.
@@williamjudge4913 Yes, and the best saws were taper ground as well, thicker at the teeth and thinner at the top of the saw. I think the only person left in Britain that makes saws in such a manner is Shane Skelton.
@@williamjudge4913I'm thankful I was taught to sharpen saws. I can get my grandpa's ancient panel saw much sharper and sharper linger than the one I bought a few years ago.
I think it was Essential Craftsman that had some good saw sharpening videos . He did logging work at one point. And his conversations with Cy (Sy?) Swan are amazing. (I know he's done stuff about chainsaw maintenance, bit I think he's done some on this has as well )
That's really good to know! I've been looking to get some card scrapers recently and have a cheap home depot saw I was going to get rid of. Thank you!
Will: "Ive become a master bladesmith and want to perfect the Kitchen Knife and all its variants"
Alec: "haha big household items"
And im here for both of em
"We won't be able to know how much steel we actually have". Ah yes, maths, not an Alec strongpoint.
I was thinking that too. In the end I'm not sure it even matters and may have been on purpose just to mess with folks.
Perfectly reasonable omission when your ad-libbing. If it were me, .001 second after it came out of my mouth, I'd stop and slap myself for not realizing there was still a solution available to calculate total weight.😂
@@sillyscru1 do you really think the doesnt know how to do x10 LOLOL. its a joke or sure~
Came here to say this 😂
5.5lbs lol
RIP to How Its Made, the best show to ever be on television
One of the best informational programs there is.
That and How Do They Do It made me appreciate all kinds of stuff, and the work and effort put into them.
I love that words like "kerf" exist. If you don't use saws a whole lot, you probably didn't think you needed a word for the slot cut by a saw, but I'm sure that for many people in history, it was so important that it was given a one syllable word so you could say it a lot.
Kerf is also a word for lost material during plasma cutting. really any type of cutting that involves lost material.
Alec, I know there's probably detractors that are upset you're not just doing another damascus weapon but I really love these little projects that you're clearly excited about. Not only is it fresh new content, it's genuinely enjoyable seeing you excited about the project.
Gosh, the banter between you two always make me smile. There's a sadness that you left Montana in your awesome workshop there, but damn having Jamie back has been such a treat. Keep it up, y'all!
why did he leave, I must have missed something?
@@marksmallman4572businesses didn't pan out, never really recovering from the covid headaches
The tool I always wanted was my uncle’s Victorian saw set. A genius piece of tool work that no doubt will last for another century at least.
The shot of the "Shop Crocs" @ 1:37 brought about a question. They're not Crocs, I know. But either way, how much heat can they take before your toe beans are in danger?
Hope there will be some hand forging soon, as its my favorite, always like the troubleshooting though. And i thing that a pepper mill could be an interesting project to make.
*Sand blasting cabinet suggestion.
Source a big old office printer with scanning bed. The tempered glass those things were made with is quite special. Use it to replace the viewing glass on the cabinet, especially useful if the blasting agent you use is particularly harsh as it will wear slower and be less prone to chips and pitting.
Pretty sure Jason from Fireball Tools did something similar with his big cabinet, but he needed two panels and a custom frame to make it work.
I just use clear vinyl like a screen protector and stick it to the inside glass. When it gets too hard to see through after wiping it off, I peel it off and put a new one on. I don't sandblast a whole lot, but they typically last half a year while using it maybe once or twice for a half hour or so every few days. I've also learned that being mindful of where the "ricochet" of the media will end up helps to reduce wear on the protector, and a good vacuum to provide a lot of air exchange helps to keep the air and window dust free.
I'm pretty old! My father taught me how to hand set and sharpen saws, chisels, plane blades, all sorts of stuff when I was a kid. It's a dying art these days.
I love these 'small' projects, genuinely my favourites are things like the carabiner and your pen builds. Just have fun! We love the energy no matter the project!
I think it'd be pretty cool to see Alex and Jamie do a podcast together. You guys seem to vibe really well and I think it'd make some both fun and informative content.
Hey! The points on the saw blades you purchased are point hardened or "Impulse" hardened. basically, the blade it self is soft and flexible, but the teeth are hardened to such a degree that you would need a diamond file to sharpen it.. They do tend to stay sharper longer, but most people thro them away and buy a new one when they get dull.
That's right, they are not considered to be worth sharpening by woodworkers. Back in the day the teeth werent hardened this way which meant they got dull quicker, but were quite easily sharpened.
8:56 Wranglestar, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while. Shame he kinda went insane with conspiracy theories and pseudoscience treatments.
I love these projects! That's a ridiculously thick saw. Perhaps you could make a roller setup to get it thinner (and also larger)?
12:41 the orange light is nice. Even with the white balance being off. Adds a nice character to that area
Finally Back to Forging!!!!! 💪💪👊🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 Thank You Alec, this is what brought me to your channel as a Subscriber years ago, and to be Honest the videos in recent times I just FF through. Forging though, Can't Get Enough!! The Katana build was one of your Best Build Series in your Channels History, Get Back to Your Roots, PLEASE & THANK YOU!!!
Steel being fluffy is the most horrifying sentence I never thought I would ever hear.
😆 Jamie pointing out the "big" saw blade is almost the same size as the original 😂 classic stuff man
Thinking quickly Alec constructs a sawblade using nothing but a forge, a power hammer, a grinder, and 10 saw blades!
The video editing is brilliantly nuanced.
1:53 rounding at 253 grams x 10 saw blades =2,530 grams, or 2.53 Kg, or 5.5 pounds in case anyone wants to know. That's a pretty good sized billet.
I was confused why he didn't just multiply by 10 😂
2:21 Sonic coin sound. 😂❤
Great fun video as usual! Hook upp the shop vac to the sandblasting cab and run it on low-medium speed and you will get great visibility in the cabinet. I have the same type and had the same problem.
I would also upgrade the light in the cabinet. Atleast if it is as dim as mine. Maybe just stick a good led flashlight with a magnet in there.
👍👍
I'm going to make sure to save all of the videos from this series.
In the future, if I'm ever in a bind and happen to:
- have 10 small saws and need 1 slightly larger one
- for some reason can't go to a store, *and*
- happen to have an entire workshop handy
...then I'll know exactly what to do. 😂
you can try making a broach like in your last video - set it up in a jig and move it down the milling machine with the DRO and broach each tooth.
The woodworking hand tool line by Steele. I love it
Alternate title: Watch me make nine saws disappear.
Alec’s videos always put me in a good mood.
Paul sellers has great videos on cutting new teeth and setting them, really easy with basic tools.
Most high end saws were tempered to be rather soft so that a user can sharpen his own saw with a file. The cheap hardware saws generally have hardened teeth because they are disposable. That is also why they have crappy plastic handles compared to the ornate and ergonomic wooden ones that you see in a lot of fine woodworking shops.
I learn about the sparkles with you and my professor was so proud and he thought me anything at all
I would watch Paul Sellers here on youtube to learn how to set the teeth of a saw, he's the best handtool woodworking expert I've found.
You should make your own version of the Füm device, maybe using something like mokume gane for a decorative flair!
You learn something new every time!!! That’s the fun part
Too bad there isn't a way to calculate the weight of 10 identical saw blades by only weighing one of them
The weight of 1 saw blade before he grinds them down and welds them is not going to tell him how much steel he has.
1- they're not identical after grinding.
2- welding them adds weight.
12:42 they just stamp it, then pass the teeth section through an induction heater. That's it.
Have you ever thought of forging the “Wabbajack” from skyrim?
I think it would be a very cool process and use a lot of your skill to get right!!
0:18 Um Alec, I don't think that's how you use a saw...
0:50 No, that's an anvil
1:15 I don't think you're making progress here
2:30 Ok, you're getting closer now but the teeth go the other way
Wow alec, you're so bored you've graduated to a whole nother level of awesomeness. Keep it up!!!!!!
As a 3rd generation carpenter who was made to learn how to use hand tools before i could touch any power tools this one was pretty cool. Showing this to my grandpa tomorrow. Hes always said a real carpenter still uses hand tools. I still use one of his old planers and I don't go to any job without the rule he taught me to measure with.
I seem to remember you making WranglerStar a beautiful pickeroon! Long time viewer, I think I started watching you just after you got out of your first workshop with the dirt floors and leaky roof.
Seeing how young and successful Alec is, is the reason I decided to try and start my own business/brand
The best ad for Irwin saw, thing just won't break
That's got to be the most chaotic power hammer shots of any of your videos when the plastic handles are just everywhere on the screen hahah
That power hammer is mint
It’s that handy you can carve a Sunday roast with it ❤😂
Love to see the Gigantic Orange lamp on the background. It gives the shop a fun look to it.
To make your view in the sanblaster better, you need to hook up a dust extractor to the exhuast port on it. It will also make your blast media work more effectively due to most of the fine dust removed.
You can make an indexing punch that cuts the teeth used on the press or power hammer
Should make a Damascus block plane at some point. Could be really cool and plenty of surface area to make it pretty or fancy
5:56 I hate when that happens...
Gotta know where to focus it
🤣
NHK World did quite an interesting video on the making of Japanese pull saws where modern manufacturing was pitted against traditional handmade. Have you ever made a Japanese pull saw?
I just watched that yesterday, lol. Love that channel!
You mentioned the atmosphere causing immediate oxidation. Imagine doing forge work inside of a giant glove box 💃
There are a lot of hand-tool woodworkers on youtube that have videos around re-setting the teeth & sharpening a western style saw like this one.
I swear my brain is broken because after seeing you use the power hammer to break the plastic handles, i wanna see ya try and forge plastic 😂 it would be interesting to see if it works with the heat generated
I've seen it all now. Alec huffing on an air freshener wasn't on my bingo card for today.
I'm looking forward to the part where you take all the plastic from the original and forge them together to make the bigger handle 🤣
Would be so amusing to be a fly on the wall while you film 🤣
1:15 "sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things"
-Marvin Heemeyer
Traditionally saws were hardened enough to spring back into shape if bent (within reason) but not as hard as most other cutting tools. They may have needed sharpening relatively often but that was easily done with a file. In more recent times the teeth only have been hardened more, as shown in the video you found. They stay sharp for longer but can't be practically sharpened when they do get blunt. If the whole plate was hardened to the same degree there'd be a big risk of the entire thing snapping. Traditional Japanese saws are harder than western ones but cut on the pull and beginners still manage to snap them.
My granddad had a few old saw that he used to re sharpend.
He used a wide clamp and triangle file to form them, then a setting tool that looked similar to a hole punch.
This feels like one of those videos where they had no idea for a video or they have a bigger video that is taking longer than expected so they threw out a random idea and said yeah that will work.
You should have put in an ad to ask for old worn out saw blades and other metal tools of varying kinds.
That might be the next project for a damascus forge with some interesting results given the mix of materials you'd get.
Some saw blades are actually built from different materials in the blade and the teeth.
Finally, you're forging steel. 👍
as a carpenter is really love the title and the idea.
Hearing you namedrop Wranglestar was def weird. I think you'd be surprised by the way his video content has evolved.
You can use the wire wheel or scotchbright to finish your scale after sandblasting. It makes it signifigantly easier to remove the rest.
Your steel was thick enough to not need it but still.
Modern saw plates on mass market saws are spring tempered and the teeth are hardened after sharpening and setting. Old saws and good craftsman made modern saws the teeth are not hardened, the plate is given a nice even temper so that they can be sharpened with a file.
There are different types of saws. Cross cut saws will have set and sharpened at angles. There are rip saws that have less set and sharpened perpendicular to the body.
You need to get the vacuum attachment for the blast cabinet. It makes a huge difference in visibility.
12:18 he was actually excited someone agreed on the light
You need to fine tune your sand/air mix. Play around with glass beads and walnut shells while you're at it. Walnut shells will give you a softer blast
Saws with darker coloured teeth: These are the types of saws to avoid when looking for a saw. Only the teeth are hardened, so sharpening is out of the question, once dull it is ready to throw away.
Proper saws are heat treated all the way, this allows for them to be sharpened over and over again. I have a few marvelous exemples of that where the saw is reduced to a little strip of metal over many many years of use.
In American saw mills the techs that sharpen, repair, and maintain saw blades are called “Saw Fitters”. There may be other names as well.
"It's floppy, it's very floppy!" There's a pill for that😂.
Honestly, Alec should just make videos that make him happy and excited, but I really miss the long knife and sword builds. I really don't care to watch the making of a ball point pen or whatever.
I would be in favor of a prop replica of the Subtle Knife from the TV adaptation of His Dark Materials.
Oh god i couldn't disagree more. I love the random type stuff. He milked the swords etc. for too long theres no more milk left
@@LoganKearsley thats soo cool!!
But he should go after the description from the books, because I always found it better in my imagination than what they made in the series
I dunno, I quite like watching the problem solving and machining involved with making small mechanical things like pens and lighters and stuff. To each their own though, I honestly enjoy both.
I agree proper long real sword videos
1:37 is Alec seriously wearing Crocs in the shop?
Com'on man!
This reminds me of those reels where someone drills a hole, taps it, fills it with a bolt, welds it in, grinds it off, drills a hole, taps it, fills it with a bolt......
The tooth don't NEED to be set, but they it's really nice to have with a panel saw. Japanese pullsaws don't have set teeth and they cut like butter. The teeth do get clogged up a little easier, especially when ripping.
Just an idee. Forge moldforms so you can use all your plasticwaste. Love your vids😁♥️
In the Alps I once saw a simple contraption to bend the teeth of the saws used by lumberjacks, it is basically a lever that presses on the tooth, since the punch is close to the fulcrum you have quite a lot of force, with little but precise range of motion thanks to a rivet that made shure you can't push further than a certain angle, it shouldn't be too complicated to build and shuld make the work quick and even.
Old artisan sawblades were not hardened. This means that they are easily sharpened and the teeth do not fall off. Modern saws are disposable, meaning once they get dull, that is it. So, what you are doing with the saw here is not strictly traditional, but it is rather clever and should (with all learning errors aside) be a high quality saw.
Irwin Jack saws are phenomenal saws for the money
This would be a pivot point that I would consider given its thickness and go a sword with a exotic handle. However this could be the making of a dado cutting saw given the thickness.
Your blast cabinet needs a vacuum for dust collection that will make it far easier to see.
Plastics have the awesome property of breaking when it needs to hold and not break when it should
Jamie, weigh one saw and multiply by the total number of saws, that will give you the total weight.
this first part is basically just you making a really fancy plate
Someone please teach alec his 10 times tables😂
Make it thinner! Less material to relocate while using the tool means faster results
I can't stop wondering: Would the paint and the lacquer have stayed on, if you had heated the blades in the forge?
My only slight complaint is while it is technically damascus it also isn't as the pattern is still on the edge rather than the surface. Main reason this slightly bugs me is I've always loved Alec's damascus work most of all and really been wishing he'd do some more, especially his unique patterns such as flags, in fact I've wondered for a while now if he could take it as far as having lettering in the pattern to spell out words.
Cut each saw into about 4-6 pieces, forge them together and work it down to a saw's thickness.
Fyi, a lot of the "quench" when hardening the saw teeth comes from the cold saw body. I think you'll still need an oil quench if you heat the teeth with a torch.
I was expecting you to cut the saws up! Making a block of steel roughly 6" x 8"
Not being able to run a forge lately, I have heard vinegar eats scale and softens it for easier removal (also saving belts ect)
10:00 Any Swampletics/McTile fans? :)
Thank you good sir! I was just racking my brain wondering why that song sounded soo familiar! 🤣👍
Yes! That music is iconic.