Blacksmith Forging A Cleaver From A Wrench

hey guys Tim here big dog for welcome back to the shop it's good to see you again so this time around we're gonna dig into the junk pile indoors we have an indoor and an outdoor junk pile so weird anyway we're gonna dig into the junk pile and see if we can find some materials to build ourselves a small cleaver and we got a thing to build for someone don't want to say too much keep the holidays coming up that kind of thing so anyway let's get to it we'll see how this goes thanks guys we'll see you at the other end alright the scrap pile so we're looking for something to make a cleaver out of here no and we'll find something in here I'm sure and it looks pretty good got a handle on it already and we need something for a cutting edge and cable Damascus now that see that's a piece of scrap Mascis say that for something else there you go old hex wrench shadow work so it was a brand name on this particular wrench beneth and call her Bemis and called ve M is and call and they were made in Springfield Massachusetts and they started making these around 1830 from a high-grade wrought iron from what I can find and the information so this should be a pretty decent thing to use so I was having a little trouble disassembling this thing the handle was trash I ripped it off there and discovered this thing has a reverse thread on this nut I'll be able to get that down out there and we'll end up Reese reading this thing because the forging process is going to destroy those threads so we'll give it a regular right-hand thread when we put it back together I never go you know our little cap for our handle when these old tools get to the point where they're just not usable anymore you know a restoration is a possibility but this one was pretty bad I just love giving them a new life has something else it's a lot of fun and it brings that you know kind of an antique feel back into the world in a different form so I think it's a good use of this old tool get as much rust off this thing we can with the wire wheel so we can start nice and fresh no one we're done with this thing it'll be it'll have the vintage look to it I have the dents and dings in it here and there but we need a smooth spot to weld some more material to and we're going to use the allen wrench we found so we need to make sure we get a nice flat surface on this and we'll have to take that allen wrench that we pulled out a junk pile down to a square shape so this billet I'm going to go ahead and leave that shredded pattern on the back in hopes that some of it will remain after all the forging although I highly doubt it so there's a company called P wallop flea market kuelap is the city to a Native American name that's right next to our little town and there's a flea market there and a couple of folks that we know run that there online you can find them and it's where I bought a bunch of these old tools and this allen wrench actually came from that flea market so if you ever get a chance check him out online stop by great folks and they've all all sorts of old tools and they are really really reasonably priced so I shopped her quite often as a matter of fact scrappie is doing a pretty good job of squaring up to salination these allen wrenches are this particular allen wrench is made out of a carbon steel the ones that you see that are sort of a black or black coated looking thing they have other elements in them chrome vanadium or other nickel or chromium alloys and this is pretty much a straight carbon steel somewhere between a I'll probably 10 50 and 1070 steel they're not super high carbon it'll be okay for its lever we should be able to sharpen it up he's definitely hardened both steel and the manufacturers name that was on the side of that Allen wrench and the size and just the way it acted it's got some pretty good sparks to it so we should be just fine all right we got a flattened one edge of that hex wrench material and the old surface grinder does a pretty quick job of this and now to give us a nice flat surface to go against our monkey wrench and what we're going to do is tackle this on either ends hopefully we'll be able to grind out any you know weld inclusions or anything like that by the time we're done so it shouldn't shouldn't show up anywhere but we'll see get some flux on this thing once it's warmed up a little bit we're gonna weld this thing in about 20 325 degrees and the weld seemed to set okay but we come to do our second weld and the drive pulley stripped out on scrappy and so we had to get it back into the forge and work as quickly as we could to replace that drive pulley and here you go this is the next go-around we did this in real time from the power hammer because people have been asking me you do just a little bit of real time use so I can see how quickly scrappy moves and there you go that was that and that's actually what okay but there was one area up towards the handle I was a little concerned about but we will see how it goes so we're gonna cut this in half actually a little less because we've got to cut the end off with the welds on it nope and that will well done right there and that'll extend our blade down for more of a cleaver shape so when I went to weld this thing together I know they noticed a delamination so I pulled that bar off the handle cleaned it up both sides and we're gonna do a fresh weld on that D out towards the tip before I cut it off seemed really good doesn't seem to have any problems at all but it does make you worry a little bit that perhaps there's other delaminations in here somewhere so we'll keep an eye on it but we're gonna keep moving forward was it right looks okay and we'll see how this works and we're gonna set this weld by hand I was afraid that the power hammer may fold it in half sideways or give it a rhombus or something like that so we're gonna go ahead and do this Forge welding by hand on the anvil and we did have some of the material offset a little bit which was not great in key cuz you know again cold shuts or have problems and it wasn't exactly the right width so when I stacked it i centered everything but still have a few concerns I'm not exactly a hundred percent positive that it's welding up real well here I'm not seeing any dark spots that are going faster than others and you know that kind of thing but once I get this thing weld it up and uncomfortable with it it's flat or fairly flat we're gonna have to surface it if you get those sides evened out oh here we go so the old surface grinder is gonna make pretty quick work of this really glad I built this machine and I've been using it a lot more lately and it's just saving me a bunch of time if you haven't seen the video on it you should check it out it was a really fun build and we're gonna file off as much of this weld back here by and handle going down to the blade as we can I don't know if there's going to be much left in there or any left in there but the handle should come right up to that area and hide it if there's any left but we'll see I'm being a little loose with this whole thing and and not too worried about it there's not a whole bunch of layers it's only four layers and it's just a pattern welded thing and I wanted those stripes across those layers a little bit of a flag look to it and sort of an antique maybe uh I don't know but we'll see how that comes out all right we need to forge some bevels into the edge of this thing and we won't distort our super low layer pattern here too much but I definitely want to give it more of a sort of a medieval axe look or as a curve and either into the blade and it's gonna have a little bit of a belly on the blade and like that look and thank you very fun [Music] and these two materials a lot BigDog these two materials are so dissimilar that they're scaling at a different rate they look different in the fire and it's giving me more concern that there may be de lamination but it's just the difference in materials at medium carbon and the wrought iron but we'll see when it comes time to heat treat this thing and put it in the clench and if there are any denominations that will definitely come apart at that point but the wrought iron that's in this material is pretty refined you definitely see a grain in it but it is pretty refined it's got a little bit of carbon in it the grinding on it you can see the sparks coming off of it you know we get things as straight as we can before we get this thing to the grinder so I got it back to Forge welding temperature and just one last time and Forge welded the back into that blade I thought maybe there was a de lamination but I really I don't know probably my imagination but I'm not sure we'll see how this goes we're getting a pretty good shape there I'm kind of liking that I was pointing out what looked like a crack towards the back of the blade but as I grind the scale off before I get it back to the surface grinder taking some of this scale off helps preserve the belt on the surface grinder and this bar that I'm putting it across the front when you've got an uneven surface it doesn't hang on to the magnet as well so if it wants to slide forward it'll hit that steel bar and not go flying off the end like I said this is a finer grit the greenbelt on there is a 40 grit and this guy is a 60 grit and we'll clean up both sides and flatten the as much of the sides out as possible we'll switch back over to the 40 grit belt and use our contact wheel here to knock some of the forge marks out of the bevels and get rid of some of the scale that are in the bevels before we head over the to the 2 by 72 there we go nice all right so you work it up a little bit hi the bill travels back and forth but down on the contact wheel it it does really well and this is something I think I'm going to use more in the future to just hog off some material it works really well for this so yeah like it clean up the backbone and that will preface really well to get into the 2 by 72 and I mounted it in my bevel jig because I am NOT great at beginning bevels once they're established I can pull it out of the jig and I do ok but establishing the same bevel on both sides by hand is not my strong suit so so once we get some of the weight taken out of this thing and get the bevels evened out bring it down to an edge that's all not too fine because we have to heat treat this guy and I didn't want to have to grind out too much after the heat treat and try to get it a fine finish then so I figured I'd do it now and just love being at the grinder one of my favorite things you are you want to stop for lunch here in a second mmm and it's like a pretty good YUM mmm all right you got her in the Forge brought her up to temperature and you can see that gray or it's turned to martensite and worked out quite well so back over to the 2 by 72 and it's good and hard keeping it nice and cool while we're grinding it off and I actually took this thing up to a 600 grit and the reason they did that I spent a little bit of time is I'm going to hand sand it with a 400 grit so going back down is gonna be a little bit rougher finish but it's still 400 grit should hand sand a little easier because hand sanding is my next favorite thing oh boy is you know kudos to the people to do this for a living it just it's amazing I have a hard time belt sanding and hand sanding your stakes forever alright so this is our cap for the end of the handle and we've made this little bronze bolster and we're simply gonna solder it in here because the handle is going to turn a little flat and we want to keep it centered and the wooden handle we're gonna create for this so this will help us do this a little bit of solder in there and we're good to go and a little out of focus but you get the idea it fits on there nice and we're gonna give this guy an edge we're gonna get him into the edge while we work on building a new wooden handle for this because the old one was just well you saw me rip it off there it was pretty destroyed so this is a piece of walnut and we're gonna get it on the old shop Smith here and we'll just turn it down real quick I had the camera sitting on the wooden floor next to the shop Smith and the vibration gave it a really got about a focused funny look but it worked out okay so this is paraffin wax that I'm putting on it and I will heat it up with some 1200 grit used sandpaper and that'll heat up the pores of the wood and the paraffin will melt into those pores and give it a nice shiny look protect that handle a little bit and we'll get to saw in here yeah and it disappeared actually down into the machinery okay so the handles finished we get this guy out of the edge and I'm actually sanding it off with some 1500 grit sandpaper I like that look it gives it sort of an antique kind of a look alright we'll start fitting this handle on so our cap and then we'll slide our handle on and I rethreaded that back into that I just ran a new tap through the cap and I ran a die or the end of the handle and just rethreaded it and it worked out really well so we cut the excess off and we're just gonna peen that over it's the way it was when it came to me and since we moved the handle closer to where the wrench used to was there's a was a little bit of excess there that you saw so it was pretty quick and easy to just trim that off and worked out pretty good we like that not the bed alright well give this guy a sharpen using an 800 grit paper on the 2 by 72 Slyke part of the belt and then I'll just drop it on my pant leg and it should give it a an OK edge for a chopper see how this works all right we have a piece of paper here in Seattle it does okay she used to hold an edge all right like I said not really a slice or more of a chopper but there you go here's a couple of pictures of it alright guys wrap this up let me get back to the office and we'll talk about it all right guys there you go so it worked out really well I'm very happy with it it's got a couple of flaws in it let's take a look at it real quick here see we get it to full alright guys so you can kinda see that green pattern in there this camera I'm using isn't doing this thing any justice but you can see the wrought iron wrought iron allen wrench wrought iron allen wrench that was a little bit oh well did inclusion right in there did you see that or not but it's not hurting anything and then down at this head right here there's something in that piece of allen wrench material there so on the other side of it and this must be a weld that I missed here see if we can and then I have no idea what these inclusions are here but they're only on the Allen wrench and they don't seem to be hurting anything so uh yeah not real happy about the fact that that happened but it's okay it's doing alright it's that green pattern in the side of what used to be the wrench a bolster in there you know nut it matches our handle there we go all right guys yeah not really happy about that but it is what it is and it takes an edge it stays pretty sharp and it looks kind of cool it's got kind of that stripe ad flag kind of look to it that I was after and he gives it a nice little antique look not too bad not too bad it's a small cleaver but it'll work for what it's intended and that may be revealed later but right now this is going out over the interwebs and uh don't want to ruin a surprise for some bait all right move you doke so there you go guys thanks for stopping by Big Dawg tours really appreciate it if you think about it won't you like share and subscribe that'd be awesome I like decade okay anyway good thanks for hanging out appreciate it and we'll see you next time right here big dog Forge take care yourselves be safe bye bye now you

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Length: 24min 2sec (1442 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 14 2019