Man where have you been sir? I am amazed at how you explain the science behind blade making. I have been a welder & fabricator for 45 years, but 3 years ago had a severe injury with a bad Traumatic Brain Injury and Neck & Back injuries among others because of a negligent Electrical contractor. I’m learning Aton from your videos. I would love to come to the UK and learn in person some day. Do you give classes or big events? Do you ever come to the US to teach?

for stainless 304, the use of filler is a requirement to unite it with carbon steel

this videos are so good that I usually give the like while the ads are playing lol

I would love to learn from you. very,very informative. Thank you

I think your Thor in-disguise. Love your your vid and the info is Gandalf rated. Yeah awesome!!

304SS jacket and 52100... that's how got kost successful results

Thank you for this presentation. It was informative for me and in one sentence you told me why my attempts at this hadn’t worked; no more degreasing after grinding.

Look forward to the future 😉

again useful info, especially the grinding and cleaning tip, something to bear in mind for the future, loving all the info from these video's, thanks

This needs to put his knowledge in a book. Sounds like he could make the world standard of instructions. Talking about the forging holding the pressure for ling enough for just the right time could be elaborated on, for me, probably others. If he's not up to it, he could always dictate it as here for another record, but it'd benefit, if he'd elaborate more as the pressure, timing for bonding, then all the things he's discovered learned from years of experimenting, trial and error, etc. Understand, it takes a few milliseconds for me to process what he's saying because his accent changes the sound of words some, where I have a little difficulty hearing already, which trying to sort out the words, I miss some of what's being said. So have to replay. Where I have my accent being from the south with remnants of Cajun talk maybe that might affect him if I were talking, no big deal. Yet, if in print, it can be read slow, thought of, absorbed and assimilated. It shouldn't be too much later a electronic device probably will be developed and we could abduct him, place leads on his brains memory area and download to the rest of us, but it's not available yet, so if he'd at least have someone else if he's not up to it transfer his knowledge, especially his learning from trial and error, experimenting, how he made something work, etc., could be saved. It'd be ashame for him to leave this earth with all this knowledge simply lost, where it'd take someone else to come up having to learn all the primary info, then spend years experimenting only to get older before he knows what this man knows. Just putting all he learned that makes his work some of the best, techniques, as well as references to time, pressure, as well as even details as realized by eyesight or feel can be passed on. It's obvious he's smart and really knows his stuff. Which he could make the videos with more elaboration for amateurs. He's probably done a lot of study and could do very good referencing books, manuals, articles that really helped him as well. If he has insights to any sword making as where swords often break in the center length of a blade, said by others, this fellow might have a solution. As maybe layering another alloy in that region of swords. Just think Albert Einstein said something about after WWII, WWIV would be fought with stones. Which we'd still have metallurgy, with this knowledge we could make better swords. Lighter, harder, more ductile and much sharper and holding a superior edge. Which there's hooks made of Vanadium steel by VMC, where they're lighter and stronger. A lighter hook can help more natural Bait presentation. Where a fish hook needs more strength in the gape, area between shank and point to prevent breaking or bending, yield strength. While the point needs to be finer, sharper and harder. So, as VMC does with their hooks using Vanadium, the addition of Niobium is said to enhance yield strength and I think both vanadium and niobium creates smaller grains while enhancing strength as well. Finer grain probably helps a finer, sharper point. Where it is not just knives that are benefitted from this fellows knowledge, outdoorsman also like to delve into making things as baits as well as hooks if they knew a little. Which it'd probably be hard to beat commercially made hooks, where R&D has lead to the high quality hooks mass produced by machines, computer programs that can produce high quality hooks en mass that are top knotch, however any number simply like to do things themselves. Where this guys knowledge would be beneficial here too. He said he's a metallagist? Is that the same as a metallurgist, or is it actually another similar field?

Using 304 here Wprks fine

"Reactive gas" is impressively vague!

When forging san Mai with stainless and o1 is there any issues with carbide precipitation like you would get in regular welding

Can't wait to see some stainless damascus. Question ; is it possible to forgeweld titanium with simple carbon steel? (Enclosed air tight). Can it be done with nickel shims between?

I’m a bit surprised that Graham got aluminium and steel to solid phase weld. It’s notoriously difficult. The melting points [edit: and thus their normal forging temperatures] are miles apart and they form very inconvenient intermetallics. My time in industry included a spell with friction welding and the attempts at putting them together left massively deformed aluminium, almost untouched steel and a thin, brittle reaction layer barely holding them together. Nowt to do with blade making but I’d still like to hear more…

"degrease before you grind"... am i degreasing scale? whatever is being degreased will be ground away, i dont see how thats supposed to work

Listening to this fellow, alloy wouldn't matter as much as heat treating, quenching skills. 1080/1095 properly quenched, forged too by an expert is probably better than super steels done by an amateur. Where it'd be good if he present material the way he has, but then elaborate on what he's saying as creating crystal growth by pressure etc. This white boy knows his stuff, where if he wrote a book, tell me what it is, if he hasn't someone please tell him he should, at least another book for me.