Blacksmithing Braided Damascus

hey guys Tim here big dog for welcome back so we're gonna make some pattern-welded steal some Damascus I got some wrought iron and this is off an old logging chain we're gonna straighten this guy out and we'll bring him down the five eighths inch round using the press and the power hammer to match the other two we've got a coil spring off of a Jeep and the straight rod we've got there is w1 she came from the store I've had it around for quite some time never really did much with it so we're gonna use it in this project I had all my heat these guys up and get them into a straight shape to match the other one bring them down into the proper cross-section so we have equal amounts of steel we won't be using this entire ring it's almost three quarters of an inch in the thicker spots it's got some thin spots due to rust but those aren't going to get in our way will simply draw it all out and take what we need now I don't know straighten out this coil spring a lot more at it and the coil-spring will need anything more done to it it's a fraction smaller than the other two pieces it's a little closer to a half inch mark but you just fine so we've got a little kiss block on the other side we're actually using the W one rod and bring this down to the same size and we'll square it off and this is drawing that wrought-iron out quite a bit so like I said we won't be using the entire ring and we're looking for a section it's about 32 inches long to match the length of the other pieces that we have hot cut at the length we need and then scrap you will help us round this off and clean it up and really be like working with this stuff this that's a pretty highly refined wrought iron and it it works really nicely up to temperature so this piece of steel is being said to another youtuber Kaitlyn @y Morris armory I think that's how you pronounce it in any case on a live stream and I had this and she said she had been looking for some so I told her it to send it to her so I'll leave a link in the description below to her channel you can check it out and see what she makes out of this should be fun so there you go Kaitlyn this one's for you there we go we'll get these three pieces welded together and what we're going to do is we're going to braid them now I don't expect that this particular piece of pattern welded steel or Damascus what-have-you will actually show a braided pattern but it will add some difference to a standard pattern you might have there's going to be quite a bit of Forge welding involved because we're going to have to bring this down far enough to fill in all the voids between these braids so ultimately what we'll do is there's a lot of material here we'll use half of it for another project but the part we're going to use for this particular project that half will end up forging it down to a 5/8 inch cross section and that should get rid of all of the voids that are in it and then we'll move forward from there there we go get this guy into the Forge and get into some squaring dies in Floyd the press just start squaring it up and compressing that it's sort of like when you twist metal you end up with raised areas and it's almost impossible to get rid of them unless you compress it far enough that's why we're going to take this down now those are one and a quarter inch squaring dies you can see how large this piece is compared to those so by the time we get down to five eighths of an inch it should be pretty straight solid with no voids should work pretty well and we kept it a welding temperature throughout most of this and you're going to notice that the area closest to the handle a little cooler won't have to deal with that in a bit but this is not a big deal so what I'm simply doing is flattening and drawing about half of this will remove that from the parent bar and set it aside for another project a little later on that's the half we're going to set aside for the moment and this half we're going to continue with and we'll continue drawing this down because it was getting so long it wasn't fitting in the Forge very well so the end towards the tongs was staying a little cooler and we do have some separation and elimination there but we will deal with that later later on down the line you've got a piece of five eighths inch square using it as a kiss block same here and we will bring that down into a square shape now we still have a few small areas where there's some little bit of delamination if you avoid things like that not worried about that at all we're gonna be able to close those up without a problem and I were using the press here to get rid of any of the rhombus and square them up make them all as close as we can so we can get them in the surface grinder and we'll grind two sides on these guys and this one's got a pretty good deal amination in one end you can see it there on the right but like you said I'm not worried about that at all taking care of that here in a bit so we ran him through one at a time and cleaned up two sides so he could weld them together and we've got actually I have five pieces here the first piece is a piece of ten eighty four are we gonna be turning this into a knife we want one edge it's consistent and there's the lamination for you like I said by the time we're done with this this is going to be one solid piece of steel we're only gonna weld down the ends because we don't want to put any welding collusions in the side there we go I'm using a little different mixture of flux on these days about 10% steel powder with anhydrous borax and it seems to be working really well it seems to be a little bit of an improvement over just a regular 4x so we're gonna get this under the power hammer and we are keeping it up a welding temperature as a matter of fact I'm a little higher than my normal welding temperatures I was right at about 20 325 degrees Fahrenheit 20 325 degrees Fahrenheit and I was letting it soak to make sure that we could get those the laminations taken care of and we reduce this thing more than 50% of its size so it's in that reduction and that heat and pressure it took care of all the denomination's now I'm gonna weigh in and ended up being a nice solid piece so we'll get this thing under the surface grinder once it cools get to handle off of it and I wanted to thank you guys for watching I do appreciate it and all the support the little channel it's been getting lately we get this into some ferric chloride so we can see this pattern we're gonna call this one good guys I really appreciate you stopping my Big Dawg Forge and if you think about it like sure subscribe thanks for everything guys take care be safe now bye bye you

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Id: UZm5Avy1Jvg

Length: 10min 13sec (613 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 14 2020