How To make a Presentation Grade Solder Joint!! (Pt 1) Knife Making Tutorial: Zac Buchanan Knives
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- In this Knife Making Tutorial video Professional Knife Maker Zac Buchanan shows and talks about the processes he uses to Solder his guards to his blades. He uses a variety of materials, tools and supplies that are listed in the video. He goes through the preparation stages and the way through the process of neutralizing the flux.
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It's super helpful, like you break on stages and write it , thank you)
Really nice tutorial, really nice craftmanship and really nice knives at the end of the day. Thumbs up!
Thank you!
I don’t think there are many people who create to the level of quality that you do, Zac. Thank you for being so detailed. Besides creating fantastic works of art, Your videos are well produced for teaching and give the student a realistic expectation of the time and attention required for getting good results.
Thank you! I appreciate that!
Excellent tutorial...thanks so much.
Of course, It’s no problem. Thanks
Thanks for sharing your skills, I make knifes just for the joy of it, not for a living, no where near your standard but you do inspire me to try harder, thank you from across the pond.
Thank you, I hope my videos can help you take that next step! You’re very welcome!
Thanks for the lesson finely no music and a lot of wasted talk. Just how you do your guards.
Thanks, I’m not that interesting so I just stick to the facts! 😂👍
Thanks for sharing. For me (a tell me what you're doing a why are you doing it that way geek) this was probably the best video I've seen on the subject; really thorough and informative kinda classroom style thing. Thanks again
No problem. Thanks for watching and for the comment!
Thanks for the detailed video. This is the best video I have seen on soldering guards. If I can make a request, I would like to see how you fit the guard and radius the ricasso .
Thanks! I’ll put those on my list of todo videos 👍
Request. Layout of the lines on the loveless double edge. Also making the guards fit up and cutting your notch for the guard. Great vids and one of the best on soldering guards.
I will add those to the list! 😁👍 thanks!
Great job Zac. I really enjoy your vids and the loveless knives. A+
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing your technique with an old timer hobbyist. I always try to do my best but have been very frustrated trying to solder stainless steel guards. This is the first video I have seen showing all of the materials and techniques that you use. You have come a long way since I saw you last at the OKCA show in Eugene in 2011.
I work in the acid plant, to help you out all you need to do to nute the acid is to just put a q-tip in water with baking soda and it will nute the acid, so you don't need to boil it....very nice knives.....
The flux can hide pretty well so I like to boil them for a couple minutes. If you’re sure the flux is only on the surface then a q-tip would work just fine. Unfortunately the underside of the guard can get quite messy and boiling with baking soda does the trick great. Thanks for the comment, stay safe at the acid plant!!
Very nice work! A question about flux and paste. I have done a lot of plumbing soldering and use paste flux, but am not sure what the difference is between the flux and paste you use.
Is there solder in the paste, and the flux is only flux?
Thank you! Correct the solder paste is a mix of the solder material and liquid flux, and the flux is just more flux. I also use solder wire just to make things easier.
I have a bit of a nit picky question. I notice that the solder paste you use has the consistency of peanut butter (or close). When I stir mine up really well it remains soupy. Did you remove some of the liquid from on top of the solids before stirring to make it thicker?
Познавательное видео!
Hey Zac, what kind of solder wire are you using? I know Bob Loveless used a bismuth solder, but I cant find any in Austria.
Beautiful work by the way!
I don’t stir mine. The liquid is just flux, which I will add my own later. I tip my jar to move all the flux to one side. Then I just dip in with a toothpick and scrape up what I need.
Great info. And I love the craftsmanship. How hot does the heat gun need to reach? Is that a special heat gun?
Warm regards, Eric
It depends on the melting point of your solder. Just make sure your heat gun will get hot enough to melt it.
Which wire solder you use.
great video, thank you ! what type and brand of solder paste do you use ?
I believe it’s Castolin Eutectic brand, I don’t remember the type. It is in my soldering video though. 👍
👏👏🤜🤛
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Your videos are really helpful. Where did you get that reamer and fancy chuck? The only similar looking reamer i can find online is a “violin peg hole reamer”. Thanks!
I get most of my tooling from McMaster-Carr, they’re prices are very reasonable. Sometimes I’ll go through MSC. You’ll want one that can cut metal
@@ZacBuchananKnives do you use a .125 reamer or a slightly larger size?
Do you use a 3/0 taper reamer for 1/8" pins? I've set pins before but only with a straight hole...or sometimes I have put a small countersink...but I can see the tapered reamer is the way to go.
I’m using a #5/0 for 3/32” pin stock. Thanks for the question! 👍
@@ZacBuchananKnives Thanks. Like your videos, really helpful.
ended up taking a #30 drill and slightly tapering about 3/4" of it...seems to work fine for the 1/8" pins. I did manage to punch out the pins that were showing and redid them with this taper drill. After peening and polishing they disappeared just fine. Thanks for your great videos.
@@gordonolafson5806 that’s great! I’m glad to hear it!
How do I find paste like that? All I can find online is the "rosen/wax" type.
google 157 pa paste
no.good!
綺麗にする事ばかり気にして
これ程長い時間ヒートしては焼が戻って仕舞いそう！
ヒルトの下側をヒートすべき何度もやる意味がない。
日本では最近エポキシ(EPO)
で行う事が多い。
はんだはエポキシよりも長持ちします。 熱は鋼の硬度に影響を与えないようで、プロセスは非常に迅速です。 ご覧いただきありがとうございます。 ナイフ作りで頑張ってください。🍀👍
@@ZacBuchananKnives さん
返信有り難う。半田が良いことは良く知っています私も40年來ナイフを作っています、加熱の際ブレードの加熱保護やヒルトを加熱しないでグリップ側を加熱しています、また何度も繰り返しをしません。
丁寧な仕事をして居る事は認めます🎵
追伸、
半田の融点温度は錫100%で
238度C 低温半田で185度C
少しの時間で、焼戻りますよ
日本では、温度管理式の電熱器で加熱してますよ。レジェンド、ラブレスさんもそうでした。
Zac, you make beautiful knives, but regarding peening, you are wrong. When you "peen" a pin into a guard, it is called "upsetting", and the rod expands and becomes wedged in the drilled hole. And regarding countersinking, that is an optional process - if you "peen" a pin in a straight drilled hole, it WILL NOT fall out. I think it was Jim Merritt (Bob Loveless' work partner) who said you'd need explosives to get a properly set pin out of a guard.
Dude you are meticulous and really an excellent knife maker! I am going to use what I learn on your videos so thank alot for sharing your techniques it's very helpful to new guys like me
If the fit is tight, is there still a need for soldering. I still have a long way to go with my soldering skills?
I would always solder, as moisture can still settle in a small gap. Lots of people don’t solder, loveless soldered only some of his knives.