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Gave her the murder weapon 😂

Did I need to know your wife’s name

Your wife seems nice can I have her number?

people buy?

Are you asking if I sell my knives? Because if you are yes I do.

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Awesome man! I spent most of the time on my first projects beating the anvil up more than actually hitting the steel. Keep hammering and never give up, I have a large box at my forge where I keep failed projects to show to people just getting into the craft, each one is a stepping stone to bigger and better things. thanks for watching, I appreciate it!

@@Mysticmountainforge thanks man. I started a rr spike knife back in high school and I found it looking for scrap steel. I think its good to keep those around. But thank you dude 🙏 I've been welding for 13 years now and love working with steel. Keep teaching your knowledge

Gotta love the good ol' railradd spike knife, It's the first knife I showed my son how to forge, they make great starter projects, and teach hammer control. I do the same thing on the ones people want to use usually with a piece of 1095, most of the ones like this I sell people just want to give away as a novelty item or a letter opener. Thanks for watching I really appreciate it!

@@Mysticmountainforge Where did you get your tongs if you don't mind sharing?

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I am happy to help out, I am glad you enjoyed the video and that it is helping you on your smithing journey. I greatly appreciate you watching.

Would it be hard to create a viking seax knife using the railroad spike.

It wouldn't be hard at all, you are the second person to ask about a rr spike specific project so I will shoot a video over it, I will do a seax and a tanto as soon as I wrap up my current build.

@@Mysticmountainforge that would be awesome, thanks

That's awesome man! Once you get hooked it's all over! I appreciate you watching!

Sewer pipes for toothpicks. The anvil scarcity is pushing aspiring blacksmiths to desperate measures. 🤣 Good on you for letting nothing stop you from creating. 👍

That's really cool, it's a really good one that's for sure. Thanks for watching, I appreciate it!

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Howd you go? Are you using a proper and good size anvil that's properly mounted and good forging hammer? In my experience it makes a huge difference than trying to use some small piece of steel or iron or sledge hammer head etc, even a rail road track makeshift anvil. Which ends up being so much more work and harder to move steel. Doesn't help develop proper techniques much either. A decent forge than get plenty hot in good time too and course a good proper set of tongs or more is important. Alternatively, you could always go more the stock removal route? This is my own personal preferred methodology most of the time, by far far far! And imho the far superior method, and capable of producing far superior knives and blades. For many reasons including its just better for the steel and doesn't produce all the negative effects that banging on steel with a hammer does. And importantly you're not limited to using just these old-world low alloy simple carbon steels or iron and can take full advantage of all of today's many many truly EXCELLENT high performance, high alloy, high chromium modern martensetic stainless tool and blade steels and the modern processes and technology to bring out every drop of potential from them! Seriously you likely won't hear this from many knifemakers... (largely because simple carbon steels are so cheap, readily available, easy to process and easy to heat treat to a passable state, far more easy on tools and equipment and quicker.... being soft and all... requiring far less knowledge and skill to work with and process and can be banged out easily, cheaply and quickly in a backyard shed with but a hammer, simple forge and anvil... not requiring all the specialised, complicated and expensive equipment or all the knowledge skill and experience necessary to work with modern performance steels! Not to mention people can and do often charge a premium price for cheap carbon steel and what is essentially a sub par steel and finished knife, often made with relatively unskilled labour. Good for knifemakers, bad for customers! In fact to be honest there's awhole lot of myth and downright scam around it all in the totally unregulated knifemaking world. And many have even been convinced that simple carbon steels and forged blades are actually somehow SUPERIOR to properly processed high performance modern stainless blades steels... which is downright silly in reality and if you made this claim in any other metal industry you'd be rightfully laughed out of there! 🤪 Alot of this is also due to mass production of cheap low grade knives using most always the absolute cheapest most crappy bottom of the barrel (barely) stainless steel in existence, with crap processing and heat treats to boot... steel that by rights has no business being used as a blade steel at all! Thus most people have never even used a good stainless steel blade, and after using those crappy mass produced knives then trying a custom simple carbon steel fired blade, it indeed would seem superior, and may actually even cut stiff haha, at least for a little while befire sharpening time, not much. :))) (Worse still in many cases it's caused not only widespread unhygienic practices but downright dangerous ones. Such as the use of rusty carbon steels and even carbon tool steels containing very dangerous alloys in kitchens and restaurants, things that should never be anywhere near food for human consumption!) Not to mention the frustration of spending eons making and producing a beautiful true mirror finish or whatever on a blade onky to look at it sideways and it turns into a pile of dirty brown rust haha! Anyway this is becoming a long rant haha. But maybe consider it anyway? I do believe learning forging is still worthwhile for a good knifemaker though and do do it time to time. Making abit of carbon Damascus or whatever. Also I understand that stock removal can seem more difficult and can require the use of especially a good knifemakers belt grinder and heat treating ovens, cryo etc.... but it too can be started and can produce food high quality knives easily and cheaply using only basic common shed tools. Files, I love files and have hundreds, sandpaper, drill etc etc. No forge even. Just if using good stainless you might have to send it off for a professional heat treat and wait a couple weeks for its return. (BTW I did start this way and learnt on carbon steel furst) Then you build up tools, skill and knowledge as you progress... and as you build a reputation for making and selling top quality knives especially stainless knives with little to no maintenance required, gets more beautiful finishes and stays that way indefinitely, and that are absolutely hair widdling sharp and can be counted on to literally stay that way for YEARS even with very heavy use as opposed to what, days, hours, minutes even with scs! Pretty much the first time you cut anything it's on it's way to dullville haha. As I say, night and day! Test me on that if you dare! 😁 Don't be overwhelmed though just take it slow and master the fundamental skills first as you go. Ps: personally my advice would be NOT to enter looking at knifemaking as some sort of full time career and sole bread winning occupation! There's rarely any good money in it and it is hard, taxing work.... and will then become a job and chore not a pssion!there's much easier more profitable ways to make money believe me, then you can offset that stuff with your knifemaking and stress relief like me haha, plus can afford any gear or steel or whatever that you want. While making abit of profit as bonus and many friends and Newfound satisfied knife enthusiasts!

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Thanks Man, It was a lot of fun and I got to make 3 new awesome friends. I am glad this video helped out, I appreciate you watching and God Bless you and your family!

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That is really cool, I always love hearing other countries names for different things, I have a customer who buys a lot of my knives in Germany. Working with reclaimed materials is one of my favorite things to do. I appreciate you watching!

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Thanks! I have always wanted to try and put some wood scales on one, I will have to give that a go, it sounds like it would be a really good seller. Thanks for watching!

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Thanks! It's awesome that your getting set up to start forging, it was the best decesion I ever made, i wished I would have done it earlier to be honest.

Yeah I’m looking forward to it. Right now I’m in full on tool hoarding mode.

@@GarageMisadventures Right on, I don't know if you have an anvil yet, but you can get a real good one from www.centaurforge.com It's where I bought mine and it was less than 1/2 the cost of an old wore out one. Mine is a NC tool cavalry anvil and it has held up to everything from minor blacksmithing to full-on swordsmithing.

Mystic Mountain Forge, nice. I’ve just been picking up what I could locally. I got an older Kohlswa, and I’m supposed to meet a guy tomorrow to pick up a 161 lb Hay Budden. May be going about this all wrong, but it’s what I found available nearby.

@@GarageMisadventures That is awesome, I only bought mine because there wasn't any around where I live that people wasn't wanting an arm and a leg for. having a good anvil will make a huge difference in your work.

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I love it, it's super easy to work with! I appreciate you watching!

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I normally do the same as well, I had considered doing that for this video but decided to do just a basic video for beginners, I hope to do one forge welding some 1095 into it one of these days. Thanks for watching I appreciate it!

@@Mysticmountainforge Take my word on this .a 10 series carbon steel is ok .but 75-85 -95 Is just to damn brittle . There is no Chrominum Moly exctra .. Dont get me wrong but years back I used 95 . It was like 5160 Cheap really cheap . But cheap = chip .. tri a chip of 5160. In one and 01 in another .. and keep them round use them in testing .for one year .

I will give that a try, I appreciate the advice, I really like working with 5160, and have a lot of it around the forge.

@@Mysticmountainforge When you are ready to learn a Highperformance heat trear method let be know .. its not worth a damn for the chip searies but 5160. O1 52100E . You cannot find a better heat treat method .. Look up shipley made knives Belton Texas. Nukcluar Knives ..

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Thanks! I appreciate you watching! It will be the German Dussage episode, I am the guy in the gray shirt on anvil 1.

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Thanks for watching I greatly appreciate it! I need to go in and change that so people can find the right one, thanks for the heads up!

Thanks, it was a tough break, thats the truth but it was an awesome experiance and I have 3 more lifelong bladesmith buddies from it now.I do plan on going back! I appreciate you watching!

@@Mysticmountainforge im wantin to get into blacksmithing but nervous lol

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Thanks, I bet that would have been an awesome blade, deer handle makes a gorgeous knife, thanks for stopping by!

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Thanks for watching, I appreciate it, Yep, I am in Oklahoma for now but will be relocating to Soldotna, Alaska in about 4 months. The champion from the episode of Forged in fire I was on is from Kansas, Emporia I believe, His name is Scott Powers, he is an amazing smith.

@@Mysticmountainforge cool! I'll look him up. I'm about to buy a double burner forge, and a railroad track as well. Can I buy from you directly instead of Etsy getting in the way?

That's the truth! I do now, this is an older video before I started using it, great tip though I appreciate the feedback and I appreciate you watching!

I actually have that planned after I wrap up my current sword project. Thanks for watching, I greatly appreciate it!

@@Mysticmountainforge Oh fabulous! I will subscribe & look for it. It will be interesting to see it done because of the 2 difference in steel. It would make really good cost effective knives. Im eager to see the forge welding of the two.

Thanks! I usually like to go around 5/32 of an inch for the spine on a small knife with a large bevel almost to the spine, as for my cutting edge I like to have it in the ballpark of 0.1 to 0.2mm before putting the final edge on. Thank you for watching, I appreciate it!

@@Mysticmountainforge no thank you ;)

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@@Mysticmountainforge anytime brother

Interesting are you a metallurgist.

@@improvisedsurvival5967 I'm a 37 year veteran knifemaker... I kinda have to be a metalurgist to some extent to get the best results from my steel

I wish it was an Alec Steele or Brian Brazeal forged hammer, I heard they handle awesome, this one was forged in Russia by Rovtar Forge, it was a father's day gift from my wife. Thanks for watching I appreciate it!

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That might be worth trying out, I have read about it some and it seems like it could be viable. Thanks for watching, I appreciate it!

That is awesome! I have always wanted to go to one of those or a civil war reenactment and check out their setup, it would be awesome! for sure.

They are called v-bit tongs, they work great for spikes, I bought them from centaurforge.com thanks for watching, I appreciate it!

@@Mysticmountainforge thanks so much!

I would suggest a grizzly 1x30 or 1x42 if you are just starting out and on a limited budget, it's what I used for the first year I made knives. The exact model I owned can be found at: www.grizzly.com/products/grizzly-1-x-42-belt-8-disc-combo-sander/h8192 If you have a more substantial budget, I would go with an Ameribrade www.ameribrade.com/2x48-grinder If you can get one with a VFD it makes everything a lot easier. I appreciate you watching.

By using the round portion of my hammer and the round surface on top of the horn it displaces material in the concentrated areas between where the two come together forcing the material to get longer. Doing this then hammering the edges and repeating it helps increase the length.

I appreciate you watching! You are 100 percent right! It is now, this is one of my older videos, I actually am not even living in that state anymore, I am now in Alaska. I had some bad advice given to me on anvil height placement and paid the price, I learned the hard way lol.

As crap man I'm sorry about that best of luck in the future though.

Thanks, everything is going good now, I caught on to it causing me trouble before it got too far out of hand.

Alright thats good and I'm your newest sub. Keep up your great work our craft is a dying one and teach as many people as you can.

Thanks for watching, I appreciate it! That is something I am really making an effort to remember to do, I never really thought about it when I first started forging and even up until the past few months but now I try to do it each time.

These work well as a novelty item only, something to give as a gift or set on a shelf, to make them into a functioning knife they would need a piece of high carbon steel welded in, I plan on doing a video on it soon.

Heating it up with a torch would work just fine but I wouldn't use diesel for a quench medium, ideally you would want something like parks 50 which is an oil made for knife making but cooking oil will also work for 10XX and 5160 steels. If you want to do Rr spikes knives water or a brine mixture made with water and some other thing, some say salt some say dish soap works best to harden them as much as possible but even then they won't get hard enough to be used as a serviceable knife. I hope this helps you out, and I appreciate you watching.

How do I know what type of steel I’ve got? Do different steels spark more or less or have different colors when they spark?

In the past I used an origin blademaker 2x72, currently I use a Brodbeck ironworks 2x72. Both have a 1.5hp motors and a variable frequency drive. Thanks for watching I appreciate it!

@@Mysticmountainforge love your vids man! whats the price point of them?

Thanks for watching, I appreciate it! My wife bought it for me as a Fathers day gift from Rovtar Forge on Etsy.

Thanks! I tell everyone that wants one the same thing, the best place for a rr spike that doesn't have a high carbon bit welded in is on a shelf. They sell like crazy, I guess it's for the novelty of it. I appreciate you watching!

You do not have to do the twist, some people just leave it square,some wrap it with cord, some flatten it and put wood scales on it, it's completely up to whatever you want to do. Thanks for watching I appreciate it!

@@Mysticmountainforge thank you and you taught me alot in this vid i appreciate it

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I’m starting a class and think this would be a good first try

It makes a great beginner project, making one of these is how I got into knife making. Thanks for watching I appreciate it!

Around an hour by hand for the rough forging. Thanks for watching I appreciate it!

Season 7 episode 24 the german dussage. am on the first anvil in the gray shirt. Thanks for watching, i appreciate it!

@@Mysticmountainforge Thanks! I Am only 12 years old and am very interested in forging!

@@Mysticmountainforge Great job on forged in fire! You did good! Team work also! GOOD JOB!! :)

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Thanks! I'm always about helping a fellow bladesmith/blacksmith!

Definitely not high carbon steel.

Yes I do, you can find them at www.etsy.com/shop/TheKiamichiCraftsman?ref=seller-platform-mcnav

Nope they don't and nope they won't, they do make good practice pieces for beginners though.

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Forging practice is what I used them for mainly, the ones I made were for novelty decor. If you can forge a knife shaped object from a RR spike then you can do it with known steel. If you suck at forging and ruin it then your only out a couple of dollars or nothing at all because you found it.