Just so u know ima fulltime knifemaker and u can make LEGIT ass chefs knives with like $2000 or less in equipment & materials , if u were interested

@@joshdiblasi8404 oh I know, I have a steel wheel laying around with the intent to make it into a charcoal forge, just haven't found the time or motivation. I was more referring to the "DIY" videos that include a CNC machine, lathe, plasma cutter, depleted uranium, and top notch CAD.

You know KZfaq has a search feature, right?

@@mikayla_collie you know your comment is utterly irrelevant, right?

Ong

I was a pipe fitter

@@calculatedsurvival I wish I was your welder. We would’ve been a perfect duo.

@@calculatedsurvival was...what happened bro, me n my mom are both in the trade although she only works for about 6 months out of the year now n days

@@dewal5772 my passion was the outdoors.

@@calculatedsurvival so now you just do KZfaq or...do you still have a day job I fully support the grind if you are trying to become, a KZfaqr my friend it's a decision I could never make after many years now

Or played at 5× speed, creating that horrid fast-forward audio; Hammer: BRRRRRRRRRTRTRTRTRTTR. Cutting: TZZZZZEEEW TZZZZZZZHEEW. Sanding: _chshchshchshchshchshchshchshchshchshchshchshchshchshchshchshchshchshchshchshchshchshchshchshchshchshchshchsh._ I mean, it's not ASRM, it's just annoying. What's more, the FFW is designed to give a sense of a DIY with few steps, most of them easy. But inevitably the video goes far too long, to the point of astounding how much scouring/cutting really must take place, to make a clip feel like it's dragging on when it's overcranked AT LEAST 4, 5× normal speed. Never got that impression with this video. Great pacing and length.

I agree...it was short, to the point and it didn't have any distracting, annoying background music or "special effects". The sounds of tools playing their natural rhythm is more than enough. Hell, I feel that this is one DIY project I can attempt over the weekend...all on my own! Thank you!

Until you realise the absolute sick grinder skills required to get those bevels right, free hand, with the least precise tool in the whole workshop... Good luck but this video is a skill flex....

Yeah I just noticed that bevel/grind skill. Yeeeeeeeah, gonna be a min on that.

@@CS-zn6pp Way to shit on someone that wants to learn something new. Your mentality is part of the problem with the internet as a whole you negative douche.

Would you make it a Chod knife as well?

@@CS-zn6pp and getting the blade thin, but not so thin that the temper warps it, then grinding the rest of the bevel in without fucking up the heat treat, also most ovens will shoot up to 500 and drop to 350 before regulating temperature so the heat treat cycle is really inconsistent.

He is using skills to substitute for more expensive tools.

More like memory retention ...but mediocre grinder skills can do this....I'm or saying his skill is mediocre btw. All around cool vid..... tomorrow is never promised retain simple knowledge like this

@@camden7488 Your level of stupid doesn't stroll through these parts very often.. Cute little cartoon picture you chose from the list, does that mean you are dumb as a rock or just a whiney little biotch? what kind of fuel do you use in your rock bottom forge that you use to collect your iron ore?

Belt sander? You mean grinding wheel and buffing wheel?

100+ dollars in the grinder, torch, steel and bricks is not rock bottom, at that rate i personally would just rather buy a knife for 80-150 bucks

Was thinking the same. Steady hands

I was thinking "grind your bevels evenly by hand?? Bravo sir!"

No kidding. It's hard even with a belt sander.

Took like 8 years for me to do something like that with little to no effort (I'm 19)

Pretty sure they wouldn't even let you ship that piece of 1095 to the UK at this point. But you could always just cut it off of something else.

Lol that sounds crazy but with their policies i could believe it ​@doinksinthePM

You can walk outside and chip a rock to make a knife. They going to ban rocks too?

Exactly. Something I can make on my porch without a dedicated toolset

My first one was shaped out with a grinder then cut my bevels in with files only. I honestly thought it was gonna take longer than it did but a good set of files will cut that in fairly quickly. I did the heat treat at work where we had a torch and also used the drill press at work for my pin holes. I was proud as shit of that knife. It was a Bowie I made from a horseshoeing rasp. I even cut several trees down with that thing about 6 inches in diameter. That was the first of .any more to come and now I haven't touched a knife in almost 15 years. I'll get back to again eventually

If you get into different types of steel your have to be more precise in the heat treat. I'm sure you know but people reading these comments may not.

To be fair, he paid more for the steel than a gas station knife

​@@crazeeazthat steel is like 1/3 of a $10 billet.

😂

I’ve been wanting a bench made Osborne 940 but the price tag is a bit hefty but also I heard just a few days ago that they were anti gun , do you know if that’s true ?

The internet is 👀, Do it and show it.

Bad? You should find yourself an og anarchists cookbook. That was one of my favorite PDFs in middle school, good memories

How's the knife going?

Any follow up?

Planning on making one during spring break or over the summer.

There's a lot more to heat treating than just one big dip

I'm still corn fused about the heat treat. He said he puts it in the oven for a hour @ 400⁰....he does this twice? So, he takes the knife out, resets the timer for a hour, puts the knife back in?

@@L-Train0ne That's not heat treating, that's tempering. Heat treating makes the metal hard but brittle. You want enough hardness to retain an edge but it will be too hard and become brittle. Tempering will bring down the brittlness and it will be easier to sharpen. Every steel for knives has to be heat treated and tempered. The heat treating is the same, bring it to critical temperature (so hot a magnet will not stick) and then quench is some liquid to "set" the grain structure. The tempering can be different for different types of steel.

​@samcoon6699 ht is the entire process, hardening makes it hard, tempering makes it soft.

​@L-Train0ne yes two cycles air cool to room temp then do it again

you can't it loses magnetism at a irelevant temperature its 725 something and deired ranges feom 750- 1000 depending on the material

Keeel

Truth.

This.

@@leggoego mmmm. U confuse me. Maybe I'm to ignorant. Please explain

Yeah it was MAPP gas… I mis-spoke

@@calculatedsurvival I read messages. I apologize. Yeah lots of peoples pointed this out. As Mapp Gas is a stabilize form of Propane and acetylene oxygen enriched. So technically you're right.

How long would the filing take for a knife a similar to this one?

Leaf spring steel is objectively a worse idea. Could have microfractures from use, but even worse, it could be a range of various different steels depending on manufacturer and age, and that's a recipe for inconsistency and sub par results.

I have made a few knives with spring steel! They have turned out nice!

If you really wanna bitch, how do you know it's really 1095?

@@nickhadfield3192 no. it can be normalised and tempered.

@@jackkincaid9705 Send a sample to Underwriters Laboratories ? Nope, that might not be the best idea yet.

Yea I've been amazed that noone ever shows the tempering process. We always used a toaster oven. Easier to control heat and doesn't heat the whole damn house up lol

Water quench is also more aggressive and greatly increases the likely hood of cracking.

This is brine though which is great for 1095

Charcoal and a foot pump works too. ✌ 😃

Don’t forget… 10. Electricity 11. Money 12. Gloves 13. Tongs 14. Sweet Apron 15. Spare Time

I would like to add : 16. Magnet 17. A 24 grit sanding disc 18. Desire to make something you could most likely buy cheaper on Amazon.

@@adamb8317 yessir and you’re missing a sense of humor

@@danno8852 nope I thought it was kinda funny. It was a tired joke by the time I got to it though.

19. Hands

That's why he added salt

Does not matter.. you can get yourself map gas for any propane torch and do this yourself.

Good tip on the railroad I never thought of that! I’m on a budget starting my knife making and an anvil is expensive for me

DO IT!! I got into and love it, you wont regret it, it is so rewarding using a knife you made.

@@theruralrenegade8911 hey, do you still make knives ?

Oh hey, internet dumb fuck that loves to ruin stuff. We weren’t waiting for you and you can fuck off now. 😘

Whats the use of the oven?

​@SouthGlass when you heat treat it it makes it very hard, which in turn makes it brittle, the oven kind of gets rid of some of the heat treating, but not all of it, getting rid of the brittleness while not making it too soft again

The fire bricks are unnecessary would could argue.

I’ve just started doing research to get into this and have barley scratched the surface. That being said I was reading an article that explained the different quenching mediums for steel types and explained oil, water, brine and air all had their individual purposes. Would you be able to further elaborate on this? Is oil the best medium for blades more specifically?

@@AutonomousVII yes Oil with a high flash point is best. Water will cause metal to have stress fractures down to a microscopic level and inevitably cause blade failure. There are experienced blade smiths who use water but they use it in an exact method. Oil is far better for a beginner and anyone who doesn't specifically know water techniques etc. The only time I use water or brine is on softer steel to get as much hardness from it as I can. Even when using oil be sure it's not cold. I heat up a large bolt or railroad spike and drop it in my quench oil. This will also to prevent cracks.

@@AutonomousVII also if you use recycled metal you may want to test its carbon content by grinding it and looking at the spark s. The brighter and longer the sparks the more carbon in the steel. They almost look like a mini sparkler.

@@jeffcryptohulkstewart2943 Thanks for getting back to me I appreciate it! I have some old steel from welding projects I want to try and make some blades out of. I also have some old railroad spikes would making a knife out of it be feasible? Would hardening work on it?

@@AutonomousVII when starting out you should use anything you can get your hands on. The more you make the better you get. Mild steel will only harden up so much but if you know you have a mild steel blade then it's no big deal. They dull quickly but also sharpen easy. RR spikes come in varying amounts of carbon. Most are low carbon but I have made some decent knives from them and lots of tomahawk. Experiment with quench methods on mild steel.

Don’t forget the metal

Man I feel bad for you, don't have access to a hardware store, running water, an oven, or even salt to put on your food.

​@@adamb8317LMFAOO

Don't forget the striker or lighter to light that torch, oh and the air so you can breathe while constructing a knife.

Cut-off wheels work just fine for cutting 1095. They are ceramic and relatively cheap. Just be careful that you don’t twist your angle grinder once you are in the cut. Those blades are fragile at any angle other than straight.

Idiocy*

We use G clamps where I'm from.

F clamps are a thing

Assholes lol

I'm partial to the ol "v" clamps myself

@@oliverklozhoff the V clamp works very well with the D clamp

Quenching in brine or parks 50 is usually better for 1095. I use canola oil which is not as aggressive as peanut oil and it still works but it's best to stay safe with parks 50 if you can afford it. Brine is scary since it can lead to cracks, but still better than peanut or canola oil

@@Skidgiz99 oh yeah for sure my comment was specifically for beginner knife makers. I'm still annoyed as fuck by the plastic cup.

@@ragingmoderate6791 lol yeah that's kinda sketchy. My first quench tank was a Tupperware. Melted straight through it. I spilled oil everywhere.

@@Skidgiz99 that's why I'm glad my very safety conscious brother was the one who got me into wanting to make knives. When we were looking for a quench tank I suggested using a Tupperware container and he just gave me this look like is was really dumb.

They didn't bother showing u where spellcheck was tho huh?

Have you never changed the oil in your car? I've got like 30gal just lying around from a decade of not being a stupid shit.

@@FartInhalerSlamPoetry mmm, vaporised ball cancer.

@@chaz7346 lmao 10/10 would inhale

@@FartInhalerSlamPoetry ok George Bush, lol

You shouldn't use brine on most steels, it's far to agressive (fast) of a quench, it can cause lots of stress and cracks on the blade.

Always use patience and persistence as you work. Your skill and technique are amazing

N* f****** p****** b**

@@spoopy9689 willing? Not so much, the only reason why my dad (mom too) and Grandpa eventually were okay with the thought of me using a torch and some other tools was that I didn't hurt myself as bad or as much but at 1st they didn't know I was using them till they saw the tank's gauges low or tools out of place. But button line, yes, I got pretty lucky

Thanks man!

He mentioned the torch, just not the bricks

You left out breakfast, a camera, the cloths he is wearing a mother to give him life and a father to knock up mom. AND several incredibly anal commenters who feel the need to complain about minute and obvious details. Perhaps he should be banned from YT for life because he didn't mention a cup of salt water... Do you feel better???

@@twistedhillbilly6157 yes, yes I do