I am not a big one for commenting on videos, but as a maker myself I really admire your philosophy of sharing your craft and being generous with information. We need more of that in this world. Also encouraging folks to just do it really is key. Thank you.
Our society is failing with higher failucation we need to bring back apprenticeships for almost all jobs not just crafting. I mean all jobs for lawyers to doctors to teachers nurses colleges are a plague
I couldn't agree more. The "i don't wanna give up my originality" mentality is ridiculous. This man is a legend in his own right. He inspired me a couple years ago, and I go back and rewatch things on a regular basis...a lot of times on mute. Watching the technique is invaluable once you've heard the description. (And understand what he was talking about) Only thing I will say, is the only reason I use wd-40 when I do, is using oil soluble lapping paste for final polish. Rolled Stainless sheet, .1 micron paste, and wd-40 has gotten me the cleanest finish I've been able to attain.
"Keep making knives until the money runs out." I love your light-hearted honesty. I'm actively educating myself at starting a business AND forging knives, and don't really expect the two subjects to intersect. The business will (hopefully) pay for me to enjoy forging knives. If I can sell knives and break even on materials and propane, then I'll consider myself victorious.
Thanks man really enjoyed the lessons you passed on to us beginners, I’m just starting at 65 years old , but have loved knives of all sorts all my life. Thanks again.
Thank you for making long-form videos and explaining in so much detail what you're doing and why. I have been frustrated with other youtubers who make videos that are either primarily for entertainment, or are long-form videos of their process but with little to no education.
I love your attitude and how you pretty much tell people how it is and not really hold back about getting off their butts and actually doing something.
Its cool that as I improve as a knifemaker and come back to these videos I pick up different tips than what I did the last time I watched it. Thank you Jason Knight!
i just did the exact same thing + i can make my own damascus now which makes it even more interesting and allows me to find new thing the second time around.
Love that you push getting off our butts a make something. You have given me a push that has added time that I enjoy. Keep pushing us, being a maker is time well spent...
Man I love your videos..I like the information you share with the other makers out there and the way you do it. Many greetings from a young knife maker from Greece!
I've listened to the unabridged version of the Lord of the Rings and Silmarillion more times than I'm willing to admit on a public forum. Makes my commute much more bearable. Great video Jason, thanks. These kinds of videos are the best.
i am making knive for 2 year non and 80% of what i know about making knive is from video. Your video are so much knowledge dense, i learn more in a 5 minutes video from you than most hour long video from other. Thank you . Hope what i say make a bit of sense in english since i am a french canadian.
As always thank you!!!! Definitely appreciate people who don't take there knowledge to the grave!!! It's so important to learn from one another. Have a good day brother
Thanks Jason for all the great videos. I learned a lot from Forged in Fire, but I learn so much more from your videos. I really appreciate that someone of your capabilities will take the time to teach. That is a beautiful piece of work btw.
He is just like my high school shop teacher. Sprinkling great information through a long passive aggressive rant about whatever. I could listen to this for hours. 🤣
Yup, the "plunge line" doesn't really show up at all in the finished blade. The knife looks absolutely amazing. If I had the money, I would be more than proud to have it in my kitchen. Very well done, Mr. Knight. Edit: BTW, if your trying to show how to do things, have your canera guy/editor switch to the second camera showing what you're doing more. That would be super helpful. Thanks.
Perfect is close to possible or vice versa, depends on determination. Your make the coolest blades. My 14 year old is learning forging the past year, and is doing great. He would be a master blade smith in time.
Love how you share and almost always say, that may not be right, or that may not make sense. As someone who has spent a lot of time cutting things in kitchens, I prefer no plunge grind, just nothing but edge on a chef knife
The hours I've spent hand sanding because I did not have a 2x72 grinder taught me alot. And now that i have my reeder grinder I still hand sand but it goes way faster now!
Takes some amount of courage to always seek new ways to do the same things. I feel that it can be the best teacher. When it screws up your stuff, a lesson I have passed. When it works well, I feel like I get another gold star next to my name. Either way I feel like I smarter at what I do.
Thank you Jason I started bladesmithing after the first episode of Forged in fire and I haven't stopped yet ! Thank you for your information it has been a great amount of help. I have been doing it now for 5 years and I love picking up new ideas and tips on making Blades and axes. Your a great teacher and mentor keep up the great work. 2020 has been a pain but on the good side I have been in my forge almost every day hammering out new blades and teaching when I can. I always like to give back when I can.
After watching Jason's videos I always learn something small that I didn't know I needed to learn. Like increasing the surface area increases the stiffness at the tip. Kinda knew that rounding it did something but never understood what or why never knew if I should round the spine or not. Great stuff.
Love to see how you made that handle and finished it. Sanding a blade by hand seems to be the most time consuming part of making a blade. Kinda of a nice escape from the world.
Thanks Jason, very helpful. I recently did a coffee etch for 48hrs after building topo and sanding to 2000. Like you said.... its always a work in progress. I really appreciate your demos and teaching style.
Thanks for the video. I'm forging my first damascus piece next and I'm really excited to try your technique on it. Also love your nonchalant attitude towards the whole knife making business. I just like to make knives for people who enjoy using them and if I someday get some money out of it to pay for the materials that went in, I'll call it a win.
just bought a rounding hammer and a two burner forge i have an anvil that my dad helped me refurbish i look forward to taking the advice from these videos and working my way to becoming a true maker
Great video thanks for taking the time to explain. im working on my first billet of Damascus now, just finished the first stack now cutting and restacking. Saved this video so I can watch it again when its time to finish. watched almost every video of yours, love how you teach its more of a real world approach
Finished my first Damascus chef's knife and upon sharpening through my loop at 25% magnification I can see a small 1/32" piece of the blade edge there is a de-lamination. I guess that is to be expected. All in all a beautiful knife and since it is mine not a huge issue. I could have resized the blade to try to remove the spot but was afraid to get it worst as the pattern got very busy higher up. All n all thanks for your insight and videos which saved me hours of learn on the fly which I am famous for !
Books on tape!!! I love it, thanks for the great videos! I used a bunch of this on my first chefs knife, plain carbon. Turned out pretty good if I say so myself!
Thanks alot for this one in particular. I just finished a chefs knife and may have went a little deep with the etch. Thanks for what you do for all of us other makers. Thanks, Zane B&B Forge
Very nice and simple technique for finishing a forged damascus chef's knife. Hope you make a bunch with Christmas coming as they will not stay on the shelves for long. Good luck and peace too. VF
This is excellent sir! Very good timing for this video! I'd love to see you finish out a handle like this. I see the underside of the tang in the handle is satin, is the spine finished to satin too?
I’ve watched forged in fire for years, has been one of my favorite shows, I’m a second generation welder and fabricator, learned most of it from my dad, recently with all the covid stuff going on and not being able to have much for work I started doing a bunch of crafts in my garage I had always thought was cool, and one of them is I started making some knives, I’m far from great at it but I try learning more every time I do, if I can figure out how to add some pics I will
Watching you burnishing the spine reminds me of burnishing the edges of zinc plates in printmaking class in college. The burnishing tools were awesome... I've even used mine in pottery to get that smooth shinny surface.
There's a version of the Silmarrilion being read by Chistpher Lee here on the tube. You might like the Tales of the Otori (fuedal Japan/Samaria). Nice knives, thanks. Very entertaining.
Awesome dude..👍 thanks for the knowledge... I've made a few file knifes so far... but I'm fully on my way to forging a knife from scratch... my x3 gas forge arrives tomorrow....👌🔥🔥🔥
Fantastic as always!!! I'm currently mainly making hand forged straight razors start to finish. Some how magically, the way I make them, they come out with a hamon naturally. Watching this sparked some ideas about making it "pop" a bit more. Love your stuff! Amazing work👍
this was awesome to watch. I did have a couple of questions (apologies if you answered them in the video, I didn't hear it!). hopefully this video isn't too old for you to see it! How long do you etch for each cycle and roughly at what concentration of ferric chloride? When you're working on the handle, how do you get it fitting nice and tight without ruining any previous hand sanding on the blade? maybe I do things wrong but I figured by fixing the scales on the blade and sanding flush with the blade that would give me the best fit but obviously would scratch up the blade.
Another awesome tutorial. Have you done one about making handles? I've made a few kitchen knives myself and I always struggle to make a good comfortable handle.
Im amazed at how thin you are able to grind these without overheating the steel. I have been leaving mine way too thick for fear of overheating them and it is hindering their potential I think. I have 2 finished chef knives that I am about to take back out to the grinder and thin out drastically after seeing this. One is already a ridiculous cutter that I have been chasing Neil Kamimura's sharpness test videos with and having success. But it can always be sharper, until it cant be.
Window cleaner VS WD-40, I was hand sanding yesterday and discovered that my sand paper broke down with the Windex but worked well with WD-40 (320, 400 and 600 grits.)
"nobody knows what tape is anymore" lol, I used to use cassette player to store my programs on the school computer!!! Back when programs only took up a couple of K memory. I believe that was an apple II? was back in the early '80's.
That's a bit before my time, my interaction with tape was solely with cassette players in and around the house and in the car, and remembering my mum and dad retract tape back into the cassette with a pencil through one of the cassettes reels when it got all tangled up and came loose.
A suggest for future videos: when doing something like sanding film from above as well as from the side so the viewers have a clearer idea of what you are doing. I wrote that comment before the video was finished, and clearly you have overhead shots in the last half.
You talked about books on tapes, and you enjoyed the flashback. My wife and I attended a Lyle Lovett and John Hait concert in an acoustically sound 6000 seat auditorium. It was just the 2 of them in Barca loungers and acoustic guitars taking turns playing their songs. They were very conversational in the between song commentary. During one of those between moments a guy 2 rows in back of us stood up and yelled "HEY LYLE!" He yelled this 3 times as if Lyle Lovett was going to stop the concert and have a conversation with him about the time of day. Lyle and John looked at each other nervously as if waiting for the other to figure out what the hell to do. The crowd got restless, the natives started war chants, and my wife... I could not believe it Jason, turned around and yelled, "SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP ASS HOLE! He finally did sit down after letting Lyle know he had every one of his albums on cassette tapes. Just before Lyle and John started their next song Lyle said "Cassette tapes are making a comeback. So, Jason, there is hope.
I am not a big one for commenting on videos, but as a maker myself I really admire your philosophy of sharing your craft and being generous with information. We need more of that in this world. Also encouraging folks to just do it really is key. Thank you.
Our society is failing with higher failucation we need to bring back apprenticeships for almost all jobs not just crafting. I mean all jobs for lawyers to doctors to teachers nurses colleges are a plague
I couldn't agree more. The "i don't wanna give up my originality" mentality is ridiculous. This man is a legend in his own right. He inspired me a couple years ago, and I go back and rewatch things on a regular basis...a lot of times on mute. Watching the technique is invaluable once you've heard the description. (And understand what he was talking about) Only thing I will say, is the only reason I use wd-40 when I do, is using oil soluble lapping paste for final polish. Rolled Stainless sheet, .1 micron paste, and wd-40 has gotten me the cleanest finish I've been able to attain.
Love how you constantly advocate for actually getting up and actually MAKING. Need more people like that.
"Keep making knives until the money runs out." I love your light-hearted honesty.
I'm actively educating myself at starting a business AND forging knives, and don't really expect the two subjects to intersect. The business will (hopefully) pay for me to enjoy forging knives. If I can sell knives and break even on materials and propane, then I'll consider myself victorious.
Thanks man really enjoyed the lessons you passed on to us beginners, I’m just starting at 65 years old , but have loved knives of all sorts all my life. Thanks again.
Thank you for making long-form videos and explaining in so much detail what you're doing and why. I have been frustrated with other youtubers who make videos that are either primarily for entertainment, or are long-form videos of their process but with little to no education.
I love your attitude and how you pretty much tell people how it is and not really hold back about getting off their butts and actually doing something.
Its cool that as I improve as a knifemaker and come back to these videos I pick up different tips than what I did the last time I watched it. Thank you Jason Knight!
Thanks for sharing your experience with my videos.
i just did the exact same thing + i can make my own damascus now which makes it even more interesting and allows me to find new thing the second time around.
Love that you push getting off our butts a make something. You have given me a push that has added time that I enjoy. Keep pushing us, being a maker is time well spent...
My son and I REALLY APPRECIATE you and your videos. Our knives aren't perfect yet, but we're up and making!
Have to try this technique... as a new maker I'm not even close to ready, but this gives me something to look forward to achieving, thank you
“Never made a perfect knife”. Just keep trying is the best advice I’ve heard
Jason Knight doing it Right! Great and informative videos. 👍👍🗡🗡🗡
Man I love your videos..I like the information you share with the other makers out there and the way you do it. Many greetings from a young knife maker from Greece!
Great process man, thanks for the video. Ill be doing the same phase very soon on my current knife build in the latest series.
I have a 165 layer billet waiting for me to try this technique out. Thank you Jason.
You've inspired me to build my first forge and get my first avil. I hope to eventually be a top South Carolina knife maker one day.
When someone loves what they do it shows in there work!!!
I think great art is like children no two are alike but are a pleasure 2 behold. thanx a bunch.
I've listened to the unabridged version of the Lord of the Rings and Silmarillion more times than I'm willing to admit on a public forum. Makes my commute much more bearable. Great video Jason, thanks. These kinds of videos are the best.
i am making knive for 2 year non and 80% of what i know about making knive is from video. Your video are so much knowledge dense, i learn more in a 5 minutes video from you than most hour long video from other. Thank you . Hope what i say make a bit of sense in english since i am a french canadian.
As always thank you!!!! Definitely appreciate people who don't take there knowledge to the grave!!! It's so important to learn from one another. Have a good day brother
Thanks Jason for all the great videos. I learned a lot from Forged in Fire, but I learn so much more from your videos. I really appreciate that someone of your capabilities will take the time to teach. That is a beautiful piece of work btw.
He is just like my high school shop teacher. Sprinkling great information through a long passive aggressive rant about whatever. I could listen to this for hours. 🤣
Really appreciate all you do for all of us novice knife makers. Awesome video and great tips thanks.
Yup, the "plunge line" doesn't really show up at all in the finished blade. The knife looks absolutely amazing. If I had the money, I would be more than proud to have it in my kitchen.
Very well done, Mr. Knight.
Edit: BTW, if your trying to show how to do things, have your canera guy/editor switch to the second camera showing what you're doing more. That would be super helpful. Thanks.
Perfect is close to possible or vice versa, depends on determination. Your make the coolest blades. My 14 year old is learning forging the past year, and is doing great. He would be a master blade smith in time.
A good blend of grumpy and caring. I like it hahaha! subbed mr!
GREAT idea with the audio books
Love how you share and almost always say, that may not be right, or that may not make sense. As someone who has spent a lot of time cutting things in kitchens, I prefer no plunge grind, just nothing but edge on a chef knife
Love your marking sound effects LOL.
The hours I've spent hand sanding because I did not have a 2x72 grinder taught me alot. And now that i have my reeder grinder I still hand sand but it goes way faster now!
Thank you as always!!!!
Takes some amount of courage to always seek new ways to do the same things. I feel that it can be the best teacher. When it screws up your stuff, a lesson I have passed. When it works well, I feel like I get another gold star next to my name. Either way I feel like I smarter at what I do.
Thank you Jason I started bladesmithing after the first episode of Forged in fire and I haven't stopped yet ! Thank you for your information it has been a great amount of help. I have been doing it now for 5 years and I love picking up new ideas and tips on making Blades and axes. Your a great teacher and mentor keep up the great work. 2020 has been a pain but on the good side I have been in my forge almost every day hammering out new blades and teaching when I can. I always like to give back when I can.
Came for the knife making tips, stayed for the Lord of the Rings talk! Seriously though, awesome video and such a beautiful knife
After watching Jason's videos I always learn something small that I didn't know I needed to learn. Like increasing the surface area increases the stiffness at the tip. Kinda knew that rounding it did something but never understood what or why never knew if I should round the spine or not. Great stuff.
Love to see how you made that handle and finished it. Sanding a blade by hand seems to be the most time consuming part of making a blade. Kinda of a nice escape from the world.
Another great teaching Vid, thanks Mate :)
Thanks Jason, very helpful. I recently did a coffee etch for 48hrs after building topo and sanding to 2000. Like you said.... its always a work in progress.
I really appreciate your demos and teaching style.
Thanks for the video. I'm forging my first damascus piece next and I'm really excited to try your technique on it.
Also love your nonchalant attitude towards the whole knife making business. I just like to make knives for people who enjoy using them and if I someday get some money out of it to pay for the materials that went in, I'll call it a win.
Beautiful Knife Jason, love your content.
Man I love you and your style brother-thanks for the share!
Thank you for sharing... I’m going to get myself a press so will be checking back on your vids
just bought a rounding hammer and a two burner forge i have an anvil that my dad helped me refurbish i look forward to taking the advice from these videos and working my way to becoming a true maker
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge 🙏🏻
Yeah the rusty erasers are beautiful are they.
I don't know how to say this... Your work is GREAT! Thank you for sharing. Going back to my blade. Good day!
My goodness gracious! That finished knife was gorgeous.
Great video thanks for taking the time to explain. im working on my first billet of Damascus now, just finished the first stack now cutting and restacking. Saved this video so I can watch it again when its time to finish. watched almost every video of yours, love how you teach its more of a real world approach
Thank you for making that mistake on the touch mark, because watching you fix it taught me a few things I needed to see!
Thanks for posting this. I’m about to try my first Damascus here pretty quick.
Finished my first Damascus chef's knife and upon sharpening through my loop at 25% magnification I can see a small 1/32" piece of the blade edge there is a de-lamination. I guess that is to be expected. All in all a beautiful knife and since it is mine not a huge issue. I could have resized the blade to try to remove the spot but was afraid to get it worst as the pattern got very busy higher up. All n all thanks for your insight and videos which saved me hours of learn on the fly which I am famous for !
...your teaching style works for teaching any artistic genre...great job....
Hey Bubba thanks.
got some pointers from this Thank you sir,
I love Jason’s Philsophyizs!
P.S. Thank you from 🇨🇦
Books on tape!!! I love it, thanks for the great videos! I used a bunch of this on my first chefs knife, plain carbon. Turned out pretty good if I say so myself!
Beautiful blade. Great timing too. I hame my first twist damascus that I have to etch. I hope that I can get at it tonight.
thanks for sharing
Chef knife with a shark fin. That's style baby. Pretty knife.
Don't need a car or anything else in the end if you have done the foot work .you will be the wiser .love ya Jason Henry dogs friend .
Thank you! I have a damascus blade that I've been trying to get the etch right on. I will be doing these steps and can't wait to see the difference.
Thanks alot for this one in particular. I just finished a chefs knife and may have went a little deep with the etch. Thanks for what you do for all of us other makers.
Thanks,
Zane
B&B Forge
Just absolutely beautiful love your work
Great blade I'm a full time truck driver trying to make blades on the weekend at home love your videos
Absolutely awesome blade! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
This is super helpful information. I will definitely put it to use. Thanks for sharing your vast knowledge.
Very nice and simple technique for finishing a forged damascus chef's knife. Hope you make a bunch with Christmas coming as they will not stay on the shelves for long. Good luck and peace too. VF
This is excellent sir! Very good timing for this video! I'd love to see you finish out a handle like this. I see the underside of the tang in the handle is satin, is the spine finished to satin too?
Thanks for sharing your knowledge, i shall put it to good use
I’ve watched forged in fire for years, has been one of my favorite shows, I’m a second generation welder and fabricator, learned most of it from my dad, recently with all the covid stuff going on and not being able to have much for work I started doing a bunch of crafts in my garage I had always thought was cool, and one of them is I started making some knives, I’m far from great at it but I try learning more every time I do, if I can figure out how to add some pics I will
Absolutely awesome video. Thank you for always sharing your knowledge. That knife is gorgeous.
Watching you burnishing the spine reminds me of burnishing the edges of zinc plates in printmaking class in college. The burnishing tools were awesome... I've even used mine in pottery to get that smooth shinny surface.
This was very insightful, as I didnt know how to finish my very first successful Damascus attempt. Thank you Mr. Knight!
That was one beautiful knife. I know I'm 2 years late to the party but damn. Makes me yearn to go start up this trade!
There's a version of the Silmarrilion being read by Chistpher Lee here on the tube.
You might like the Tales of the Otori (fuedal Japan/Samaria).
Nice knives, thanks. Very entertaining.
Great looking knife
The sound effects nearly killed me; so funny!
Awesome dude..👍 thanks for the knowledge... I've made a few file knifes so far... but I'm fully on my way to forging a knife from scratch... my x3 gas forge arrives tomorrow....👌🔥🔥🔥
Fantastic as always!!! I'm currently mainly making hand forged straight razors start to finish. Some how magically, the way I make them, they come out with a hamon naturally. Watching this sparked some ideas about making it "pop" a bit more. Love your stuff! Amazing work👍
😅
Ytof
How do you feel about a coffee etch after the fericholoride etch??
VERY nice Damascus blade! Beautiful, bold pattern!
this was awesome to watch. I did have a couple of questions (apologies if you answered them in the video, I didn't hear it!). hopefully this video isn't too old for you to see it!
How long do you etch for each cycle and roughly at what concentration of ferric chloride?
When you're working on the handle, how do you get it fitting nice and tight without ruining any previous hand sanding on the blade? maybe I do things wrong but I figured by fixing the scales on the blade and sanding flush with the blade that would give me the best fit but obviously would scratch up the blade.
Great information for when I finally manage to get a billet of damascus to work without delaminations.
just watching and learning
Absolutely gorgeous knife!
Thanks for the many helpful tips. Cheers
Peter
Education is awesome! Thank you
Another awesome tutorial. Have you done one about making handles? I've made a few kitchen knives myself and I always struggle to make a good comfortable handle.
Im amazed at how thin you are able to grind these without overheating the steel. I have been leaving mine way too thick for fear of overheating them and it is hindering their potential I think. I have 2 finished chef knives that I am about to take back out to the grinder and thin out drastically after seeing this. One is already a ridiculous cutter that I have been chasing Neil Kamimura's sharpness test videos with and having success. But it can always be sharper, until it cant be.
Window cleaner VS WD-40, I was hand sanding yesterday and discovered that my sand paper broke down with the Windex but worked well with WD-40 (320, 400 and 600 grits.)
Wow!!!!
Such a beautiful knife.
"nobody knows what tape is anymore" lol, I used to use cassette player to store my programs on the school computer!!! Back when programs only took up a couple of K memory. I believe that was an apple II? was back in the early '80's.
That's a bit before my time, my interaction with tape was solely with cassette players in and around the house and in the car, and remembering my mum and dad retract tape back into the cassette with a pencil through one of the cassettes reels when it got all tangled up and came loose.
A suggest for future videos: when doing something like sanding film from above as well as from the side so the viewers have a clearer idea of what you are doing. I wrote that comment before the video was finished, and clearly you have overhead shots in the last half.
You talked about books on tapes, and you enjoyed the flashback. My wife and I attended a Lyle Lovett and John Hait concert in an acoustically sound 6000 seat auditorium. It was just the 2 of them in Barca loungers and acoustic guitars taking turns playing their songs. They were very conversational in the between song commentary. During one of those between moments a guy 2 rows in back of us stood up and yelled "HEY LYLE!" He yelled this 3 times as if Lyle Lovett was going to stop the concert and have a conversation with him about the time of day. Lyle and John looked at each other nervously as if waiting for the other to figure out what the hell to do. The crowd got restless, the natives started war chants, and my wife... I could not believe it Jason, turned around and yelled, "SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP ASS HOLE! He finally did sit down after letting Lyle know he had every one of his albums on cassette tapes. Just before Lyle and John started their next song Lyle said "Cassette tapes are making a comeback. So, Jason, there is hope.
Beautiful blade! Thanks for sharing..
I love the work and the videos.
Awesome video just finished my first Damascus 👍
i love this style very versatile.
Beautiful chef knife. You are a master.