Small charcoal forge comes in really handy. Also love mine. Thanks sharing. 😬

Abby said, "wow, that's so cute". So in addition to this, I gifted her a bigger knife! Cute maybe isn't what you want to hear when describing a knife and some other things. Thanks Tony. 😁

The knife is unique but nothing to write home about. Abby said it's cute so I gifted her another, bigger knife! I need more knife making practice... Thanks. 😁

Abby said this knife is cute. I proceeded to gift her a larger, perhaps more useful knife. I gotta get more blade practice in. Thanks for sticking with my channel. 😬

For sure your points are very good. And I have some "used" coal leftover from this for next start. I really like using this mini forge. Thanks. 😬

I haven't heard any feedback but she said several times it's "cute". So I decided to gift her another, bigger knife! 😁

Yeah, this tiny forge or charforgeasaurous is really fun to use. Great name by the way. I have to remember that for future videos! Thanks for sure. 😁

Hey Steve, Hair today, gone tomorrow. Abby said the knife is "cute". Not exactly what you want to hear about a knife. So I gifted her another, bigger knife! We men are truly stupid at times. Thanks for all. 😁🙃

Ouch! "Cute" is definitely no what you want to hear! Was the next one a bowie knife, or a machete? 😂😂😅😆

I just ignore the nonsense when possible. But my feed also gets jammed with some real hammer head videos. Thanks for sure. 😊

Hi Ty, This forge is no joke! Works well for what it is. More to come... Thanks. 😁

thats a cracking idea

Hi Barry, someone else is using their mini charcoal forge for making coffee and bbq'ing. Your idea sounds good to me. Thanks for watching. 🙂

I agree. Thanks. 😬

I’ve been wanting to mess with blacksmithing for awhile now but I don’t want to spend a lot of money on a forge so I was looking around and found this same one on Amazon so I looked it up on KZfaq and it brought me here

@@shootinturkeys I found one for sale like that for 400, restored. Think that’s good deal?

@@andrewlast1535 amazon has cheap ones for >$200

It's not terrible and I'm sure Abby can find some use for it. But I need to get more time in with making knives in general. Thanks. 😬

That is exactly what Abby said - cute... Not exactly what one wants to hear about a knife so I gifted her another, bigger knife I made! 🙃

Thanks robert. This knife is nothing special but Abby seemed to like it and so that's all that matters. 🙂

Hello there Tommy. Thanks for watching and I wish you the same.

Nice work keep the good work coming, thanks

The knife is nothing to write home about but Abby got a kick out of it and called it cute. Later, I gifted her a larger, perhaps better knife. Thanks Kennard.🙂

I'll do my best Tom. Thanks. 🙂

Every time you heat up a hardend piece of steel it loses its hardness. You need to re-harden after finishing your work with it. Steps are the following ones for forging a blade: 1. Work: you heat up the metal and work and shape it. 2. Normalization: You heat up your piece of metal to critical temperature (hardening temp) and let it cool slowly so that all material stress can disolve. Do that 2-3 time. 3. Hardening: You bring your piece of metal to critical temperature (~720-810°C) at which it will be nonmagnetic and quench it in hardening oil or water, depends on the steel. 4. Tempering: You take away a bit of the hardness because the steelblade would be so brittle it would break like glas. So you put it in an oven for about 2h on 200°C That's a very rough discription! It's like explaining how to drive and say: "well you get in the car and start the motor and stomp on the pedal and than it moves!" :)

Hey Brooks, I would be laughed out of the building! And now on display: a baby knife made with a baby forge by a baby brained balcony blacksmith. Glad you enjoyed and I will continue with the occasional knife making project for sure. Thanks for all. 😬

@@gstongs LOL, don't under-estimate your skills! Stay safe.

Tempering

I actually learned this the hard way very recently. I made a tool from another file and the heat treat went haywire. Very good information - thanks for sharing. ☺

Mask it as a bbq -no problems .Actually noise from hammering might be the bigger problem.

Taipei is sort of unique in this way. I'm actually on the roof so few people can smell it and to be honest, once it's fired up well, there's little smoke. But the unique thing is so many people here burn "joss" money on certain special dates - money for dead people. You would be hard to tell if I'm making an offering to deceased, bbq'ing or blacksmithing. Thanks Bryson. 🙂

You're very close to perfectly correct. Thanks for still being active on my channel. 😬

I honestly don't know. I've seen most of this style made this way. Maybe a case of monkey see, monkey do and I the knife videos I saw were made by actual real monkeys which probably makes me less than a monkey... Thanks Paul. 🙃

@@gstongs I could be the monkey Glen,but to me it just looks odd!

Hey brother, you just need to do a handstand when watching and forget which side the edge is on.

@@gstongs Thats gotta help!🤣

He had that machined I think.

Hey Alan, don't forget what? You lost me. Thanks all the same. 🙂

@@gstongs The old superstition, that you always give a coin with a knife, lest the knife sever the friendship. The coin is returned to you, making it a commercial transaction, not a gift, neatly side-stepping the threat of a severed relationship.