One thing that makes interesting videos is taking absolute crap like those belt grinder shavings and turning them into a master piece.

The desert ironwood handle is my favorite aspect.

Love the Canadian tuxedo lol

Nice looking kitchen knife

I very much like watching you work your steel and knives. I once was a fairly serious knife maker, working with Devin Thomas quite a bit over the years. I finally burned clear out and closed my shop for almost a decade. Now I'm fully retired from my "career job" and am getting ready to jump back into knives. Watching channels like yours is really a big help, thanks so much for putting out great content!

Love the nickel coastline.

Make a blade from the shavings cool idea

Great looking pattern, I could definitely put a blade like that to work at my BBQ SMOKER!

I have always loved your knife skills

When you welded the bandsaw blades you blocked the ark of the welding with your hand a lot of people don't do that they don't realize that that light from the welding can still affect a person's eyes watching video God bless and have a blessed day

Turned out beautiful

Cool piece man, as I eyeball the stack of bandsaw blades in the corner…..😉

An exciting pattern in this blade.

Very good job my friend

I am commenting just to try and help out! I have nothing of note to say other than nice job! Thanks for sharing

Came out pretty cool Brother!

Surely you've got to make a blade or two with all those grindings!

Beauty! First one of your vids I’ve seen. Built my boy a forge a few years ago, he got into it a little, I want to start forging soon. He’s now in culinary classes, I’d like to get him one of these from you.

This knife is very cool. It would be a great add6to my kitchen.

another beautiful knife Elijha i love it Mark 😀👍👍✌

What I like about your channel is, you make it like I'm hanging out with a friend. Just BSing out back in the shop building.

You could make a neat knife with the shavings from the bucket.

Always like watching your vids

Nice work 👍👍👍

Nice looking blade!!

Excellent work. 👍👍

Great job, sir

I really enjoy your channel and watching your process. Upvoted, shared, commented (obviously), subscribed, bell rung and liked .... may the algorithm gods smile favorably upon your channel. 👍🏼👍🏿👍🏽👍🏾👍🏻

great looking knife!

Most bandsaw blades are 15N20. Made several billets from metal bandsaw blades and they worked great. Harden and hold an edge well!!!!

5:00 I only knew of the dragon's breath drug from Columbia, not the carbon. 7:18 You would be more comfortable if that power hammer sat a foot higher. You really bend over a lot to use it. That nickel really gave a cool-looking pattern to a cool-looking knife.

Beautiful!

Real nice Thanks

Turned out great.

Nice knife!

Beautiful

Dayum! That's a knife I'd be proud to use in my kitchen! That really turned out to be a unique and beautiful blade.

Great video, thank you for sharing! I would love to see you do what I've heard referred to as "dinosaur/trashcan" Damascus

That is a beautiful knife. I prefer those more random and dynamic patterns over the more controlled ones (stars, explosions, dobble us, twists..). 👍👍

Great video as always.

That nickel move really paid off. Great video, really loved the shape of the blade.

Very nice!!

Old lawn mower blades usually seem to be made of good steel. I go through a couple sets a year so it’s nice to have a second use for them.

Nice build. A popular blade shape lately.

Thank you

Sweet , thx

Good looking knife, A+ 💥💥💥💥💥

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Nice! I agree with your decision to use known steel for the core. I do suspect that eventually your grinder leavings are going to find their way into a canister with some 1084 powder . . . .

Can you make a blade out of those shavings? It be a nice project/ video to make in the near future

Holy smokes! What an absolute art my friend, excellent work.

Offer still stands to teach you to Tig weld when you're ready.

We have a knife maker at our job and he claims that the bandsaw blades are m1. Our blades are for cutting aluminum. But I think it's the same stuff

Wow! The pattern in the blade turned out amazing! As others said the contrast between the cladding and the nickel is gorgeous! Thanks again Elijah!

Cool pattern, neat how you got little islands of the cladding.

The pattern kinda looks like the Japanese islands. Really nice looking knife. 🤜🤛

Amazing job!

I would like to see you make a knife out of the steel grindings that might be pretty cool and a way to reuse some of that metal

excellent work

ooh what a lovely blade , it goes beautifully with the ironwood grain too

You can tell that the forge was heating the material much hotter than before by the color. Looks like the forge is definitely working.

I really like the nickel foil. It really pops.

That turned out beautiful

Which steel is the most darkest when etching, and does coffee makes it even darker?

Beautiful, and the commentary is, as always, very informative!

That cladding turned out very cool. Reminds me of wrought iron in some ways. I also like how the nickel and cladding were spotted through the edge steel but not quite on the edge. I'm working on a hjartum style axe with 1045 body with 5160 edge.

Nice balance between the blade and handle.

Nice blade width.

Nice knife

Thanks for sharing this with us 🙏

Beautifully done sir!

What are all the flakes that come off when hammering? Is that metal, do you lose a lot of metal during the whole process?

That's a very good looking bunka for sure, depending on the supplier you can sometimes end up with some 15N20 in band saw blades or more rarely L6.

Very nice

That came out fantastic !

Im so happy you made this video. I have a bunch of sawmill bandsaw blades from work. Ive been tempted to use them. However i use them until they break. So im sure the steel has all kinds of cracks in it.

Beautiful work as always

Wow, that came out really beautiful !

I figured you accumulated grindings, but thats way more than I imagined. Thanks for showing that, interesting stuff. Also the sound of the hammer hitting the steel sounded way softer than I remember, guess its that higher heat.

I tend to go high heat for welding it just adds a safety factor and you can see in the vid that your getting much higher temps with new forge , new blade too , my wife wants a matching set of kitchen knives and I think one like that one will make it into the set

Mad skills. Thanks for sharing your knowledge 😊

I did this once to make damasteel. Turned out great these blades are great steel to use. And as always awesome work!

Vraiment magnifique.

Excellent presentation. You're truly a gifted individual.

Are the bucket shavings reusable?

Absolutely gorgeous. Fine work.

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Looks awesome!!

Could you make a blade out of bandsaw blades and fish hooks?

Like others have said, bandsaw blades are usually 15N20 and heat treat well. You can always test harden a chunk. Generally, if a piece is as thin as a bandsaw blade and has a good spring to it, it should heat treat fine. Nice work man!

Fill your catch bucket with mineral oil or similar, something that isn't especially combustible. Then, when you've collected enough, make canister steel from your grindings.

such great work!! 😊

Beautiful knife 👍🏼 When do you stamp your knives during heat treating? And does it cause any warping? Thanks

9:59- I've always wondered if that stuff could be used for Iron powder or smelted into an ingot of some kind.

You should do a canister damascus from the water bucket debris...... disregard, you already did that video lol.

Хорошая работа! Но использовано так много газа. Это дорого, у вас ведь кризис...

I was wondering if you could make anything from the bucket of shavings after a grind or is the material not viable enough for making something. Stay safe.

Great video as usual and love the way the nickel turned out too, one for a future project and a question Fire Creek Forge: Wouldn't it be that little bit easier if I used a mortice chisel for hidden tangs?

As always...great video. Could you show your new forge in detail? I'm about to build one myself and am curious about yours.

I wonder if all that waste material from your grinding (when you cleaned out the water bucket) is recoverable and maybe useful for some other project that doesn't require a high quality steel?