Forging a WWI Knuckleduster Trench Knife: Doubled-Edged "French Nail" Dagger (Complete Build).

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  • Опубліковано 3 січ 2025

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  • @elimcgraw4066
    @elimcgraw4066 5 років тому +13

    Good job. Glad to see that somebody made a knife video about WW1 history

    • @PhilBaumhardt
      @PhilBaumhardt  5 років тому +1

      Thanks Eli! I try.

    • @elimcgraw4066
      @elimcgraw4066 5 років тому +1

      You should read about the British Robbins- Dudley knives used in WW1

    • @PhilBaumhardt
      @PhilBaumhardt  5 років тому +1

      @@elimcgraw4066 Interesting, I'll have to do some digging on that. Thanks dude!

  • @ianfinrir8724
    @ianfinrir8724 5 років тому +33

    The first French Nails were made from cut down Lebel bayonets. These bayonets were so long that three knives could be made from one

    • @brittakriep2938
      @brittakriep2938 4 роки тому +7

      The french bayonnets had been not so practical and also there was the danger of breaking, so they had been cut down and the tips got wood handles. Also the french navy still had some boarding daggers from the 1830s (?) in stock, which saw their first use in ww l.

    • @mr.meowgi9876
      @mr.meowgi9876 4 роки тому +2

      Neat

    • @jamesdolan5236
      @jamesdolan5236 3 роки тому +2

      Some of these knives were still being issued for the Normandy invasion

  • @craigthemonke794
    @craigthemonke794 3 роки тому +2

    That wooden sheath looks so brutally simple I love it

  • @eduardonavarro5910
    @eduardonavarro5910 5 років тому +14

    That was a beautiful test
    Amazing work man

  • @lefunnyN1
    @lefunnyN1 2 роки тому +1

    simple yet effective and cool looking

  • @tonynapoli5549
    @tonynapoli5549 5 років тому +5

    Very effective in the right hands

  • @techronmattic5876
    @techronmattic5876 5 років тому +5

    Cool dagger Phil, blade came out sweet

  • @Juan-md5fb
    @Juan-md5fb 4 роки тому +4

    Great video loved watching it was so cool. Got a old coil from my shocks going to fire up the forge and give it a shot! Thank for the video brother.

  • @legioxgemina1117
    @legioxgemina1117 4 місяці тому

    Excelente trabajo.

  • @danielbutler6823
    @danielbutler6823 4 роки тому +4

    Try making the blade first. Then you can texture the grip or put on a handle or something and bend it in the vise last. ones I made turned out ok that way and you can put a bit more personal flair in it.

  • @samnottheotherone4363
    @samnottheotherone4363 5 років тому +2

    Cool, might try this one myself.

  • @crispwhitesheets2175
    @crispwhitesheets2175 3 роки тому

    Beautiful

  • @raphlvlogs271
    @raphlvlogs271 4 роки тому

    a work of art.

  • @franksworld9922
    @franksworld9922 2 роки тому

    Well done 👏

  • @fishdude666ify
    @fishdude666ify 2 роки тому

    I HATE unbending coil springs; the last one I did was off a truck so like inch round stock with maybe two inches between turns. Took forever.

  • @cgreen3597
    @cgreen3597 Рік тому

    No critics or being mean. This is a great project on your part, but at the point you were at an emphasis on the wide curve of the hand guard, I would have hot cut the forward part of the guard so that there would be enough space to bend it closer to the ricasso and close some of the guard's width.
    Closing some of the guard's width may also have squared up the aft end where may have been able to forge in skull crusher. I realise you were going for historical accuracy, but just a thought.

    • @PhilBaumhardt
      @PhilBaumhardt  Рік тому +1

      Its an interesting idea, trying to shape those handles has always been problematic for me. I may try it one day, but yeah I was trying my best replicate the historic piece in this instance.

  • @caseyc6364
    @caseyc6364 5 років тому

    Nice job

  • @juggy8896
    @juggy8896 9 місяців тому

    I’d like to buy any available

  • @deneufville
    @deneufville 4 роки тому

    le vrais a un diametre plus petit et la lame est est en forme de feuille alongée . cela dit le votre est tres beau , bravo , bon travail

  • @raphlvlogs271
    @raphlvlogs271 4 роки тому +2

    were bayonets ever converted in to trench knives?

    • @jamesdolan5236
      @jamesdolan5236 3 роки тому +2

      Very much so. Men in both world wars frequently made knives out of bayonets they got ahold of. They also made what were called "theater made" knives out of found steel and used anything from wood or leather for the handles to making rather fancy handle spacers out of clear and colored plastic

  • @lucaskauffman4554
    @lucaskauffman4554 5 років тому +1

    Bayonets were also long as a defense against calvary.

    • @PhilBaumhardt
      @PhilBaumhardt  5 років тому +2

      Right! They had some really long ones in the late 1800's.

    • @brittakriep2938
      @brittakriep2938 4 роки тому +1

      The main infantryrifles had also been rather long. The combination long rifle and long bayonnet should give a reach advantage in bayonnet fencing, and of course against a cavallysoldier with no lance.

  • @davidbradley6040
    @davidbradley6040 3 роки тому

    no tempering?

    • @PhilBaumhardt
      @PhilBaumhardt  3 роки тому

      I temper everthing in the kitchen oven

  • @cgreen3597
    @cgreen3597 Рік тому

    Emphasis should have read empass. Pounding my tablet with a hammer now.

  • @Tito_Viera
    @Tito_Viera 2 роки тому

    Artists... always they make look easy to do what they perform 🤣

  • @fstef9632
    @fstef9632 5 років тому +2

    Make a sword plz!!!!

  • @aslob9321
    @aslob9321 5 років тому

    Dude, I like your videos, keep it up. But, you need to get in close on that belt grinder, and get rid of the gloves. That thing ain’t gonna bite you!

  • @totounicorn6885
    @totounicorn6885 5 років тому

    You had my like at “stab the shit out of him”.

  • @popeyhead7687
    @popeyhead7687 5 років тому

    You can buy a nail knife for 20$

    • @DSWL_
      @DSWL_ 4 роки тому +2

      that's not the point... get it?