Tips for Forging a Railroad Spike Knife
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- Forging knives from railroad spikes is something that's been around for decades but has recently picked up more popularity. With the release of our new Railroad Spike Knife Bundles, we wanted to share a few tips on making your own railroad spike knife. This is by no means an exclusive list, but just a few thoughts Ken wanted to share to keep in mind while you're forging.
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Amazing how much you can learn in a short video .
Like the spacer in the vice and the thickness of the twisting tool.
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching, Douglas!
Been a big fan since I seen your stuff on black bear forge. I’ve bout a couple of your kits as well. Tongs, RR knife kits. The directions you provide is also a life saver for a new blacksmith!
Came over here from Black Bear as well
@@SoggyWaffles1984 As did I, after seeing John from Black Bear demonstrate forging the Quick Tong Blanks and buying my first package of Quick Tong Blanks from Ken's last week...
You've convinced me I need a spacer in my vise, and that I should be twisting horizontally. Thank you, sir!
Also, I use an old monkey wrench with smooth jaws and a handle welded to one of the jaws as a twisting wrench; I can grab the head of the spike without leaving a mark.
Glad you enjoyed the video, Bryson! Ken has a similar wrench!
That spacer idea is great thanks Ken!
Thanks for watching!
Your videos are really comprehensive and educative. Wish you were posting more stuff!
Keep up the good work!
We're working on it! Stay tuned! Thanks for your support!
Tip #1: Wait until the train passes before trying to pry out a spike.
Good one!
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May I suggest you first forge a long handle spike puller! You need to be quick!
Great advise
About to try Blacksmithing for the first time. I was thinking a railroad spike knife would be a good first project. Thanks for the video I found it very helpful.
Good starter
So much info in one video!! Thank you!
Fantastic tips, lots of new ways to definitely make things easier
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
Good job
Awesome job sir. Thank you for the pointers sir. Got so many spikes, and not enough ideas to go around. Thanks again for the input
Glad to help!
Awesome just what I needed!
Glad to hear it!
Nice 👍
Good tips about saving your vise screw. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
Make my first quick rr spike tongs from your store. Harder than it looks but I pulled it off
Practice makes perfect. Enjoy.
Awesome video man! What kind of camera are you using here?
My daughter does the filming but I believe it is a Nikon Z6 with a 24-70mm lens.
Why the twist? I don't find it comfortable to hold. I am planning on making some RR spike knives but I am thinking keep the head and thin out just under so I can put split scales on as a handle then work the blade. How would this be for a handle?
How about some numbers...how much of the spike is used for the blade and how much for the handle and measured from the tip?
You could also just use a cold spike as a spacer, right? I can't think of any reason you couldn't
A spike would work to.
Whats the best liquid for quenching railroad spike
railroad spikes are a medium to low carbon steel. So to answer your question I would just use water.
I remember when I came to you guys asking if you could offer up those spike tongs ,hope you guys have been selling them regularly
Ken I could use your help figuring out the valve body system you guys run so I can make my pneumatic hammer a bit more versatile,right now I just do the basic setup like you did (foot off and the ram goes up ,foot on and the ram comes down ) thank you
Hi James, why don't you send me a email or give me a call and we can discuss your set-up
@@KjZiturKensCustomIron sounds good
For a novelty knife RR spike knives are fun to make But cannot keep or hold an edge. Unless you split the edge or split the spike and forge weld a bit of carbon steel as you would if making San Mai . And thats the only way a R R SPIKE WILL KEEP AND EDGE
A wireless lavelier microphone or a shotgun mic on a boom would REALLY up the audio quality of these videos. If y'all need help, I'd love to assist.
- Happy customer and starting blacksmith.
Thanks for the tip! Ken's wearing one in this video and we've used it in the past, we just had technical difficulties this time around.