Blacksmithing Scrap Pile Damascus

[Music] [Applause] [Music] hey guys Tim here big dog for welcome back to the shop so I was reading through the comments on the channel this morning and I ran into one and someone had asked if you could take chain and cable and plates and make Damascus and I had not heard of that being done before all at one time anyway and I thought we'd give it a shot see how that came out it sounds like fun sounds like a challenge and well it's the worst can happen we end up breaking something we've done that before anyway um so let's just jump into it and see what happens here we're gonna give it a shot stick with me you should be fun but see how it goes thanks guys what's the end of it bye alright guys we're gonna grab some stuff out of the junk pile right here behind my propane tank we got a piece of cable I picked up Floyd equipment we got an old file probably from work and we've got some 59:20 courtesy of my buddy Cory at the bandsaw manufacturing plant and I got some metal cutting bandsaw blades from Derek land heart Thank You Derek appreciate that and a piece of forklift chain from Jason Nichols he sent to me quite some time ago you know safely tucked down there and the scrap pile alright there we go so chain cable some plates and I'm gonna start cutting this stuff up and I'm gonna use an abrasive saw here to cut this stuff with and we're gonna have quite a bit of prep work to do to everything which is going to be a good portion of what we're doing here now this is a piece of motorcycle chain that we've made Damascus out of before and this is our forklift chain and they seem to be made out of pretty much the same thing so we're going to get that forklift ange soaking in some acetone see if we can break up some of that grease while we prep up this piece of cable and I'm just gonna weld around the outside of the opposite in there that should contain all the little strands while I cut this guy off to length I should really get myself a real abrasive saw instead of that thing that and it works pretty good alright and we're gonna cut up our pieces of 5920 wood band saw blade and then we'll cut up our metal cutting band saw blade to the same lengths so we can stack a regular billet you can see those laying there and of course we got to clean all these guys up so they'll lay nice and flat and get all a scale and that kind of stuff off so I think we're gonna call this junk pile Damascus scrap pile Damascus something like that it's a pretty good challenge you guys should go through your scrap pile see what you can find and make some Damascus out of it and see what it comes out like send me some pictures alright well to handle on the end of the cable here and we're gonna get that into the Forge and burn off some of the grease it's got oil to grease and stuff on it and we're gonna pull a trick on this thing here a little bit what we're gonna do and it up and hit the handle on the end and open that up and we're gonna flex it and we're not gonna weld it together here that needs to be done when we're putting our billet together we're gonna close this back up with that flex inside flex it a little more and we're just getting this as compact as we can because we're not going to be able to do that once it's incorporated into the billet it's simply going to smash down flat and I don't want any little strands busting loose on the side all right a little flex on there set that guy aside to cool and then we've got our file that we chose and we're gonna anneal that while that's cooling off we're gonna take just the top layer of flux off this thing and we're gonna knock the teeth off that file now that it's cool a lot of prep for a lot of these different parts and pieces I want to make sure that they all weld up as best as possible first go around getting all these different round and odd shaped surfaces to weld to one another's can be a little bit of a trick all right we're gonna cut our file off at the right length to match the wood cutting and metal cutting bandsaw blade parts and we're gonna stack all this stuff up to make our regular Damascus billet you know the reason we've got a file on there is these pieces are rather thin and I want to keep them rigid so they don't start flexing and bowing in the Forge and it'll give us a sort of a cutting edge on that site of the billet it should we decide to make a knife out of this you know they're stacked in there and we ended up with a nine layers of 15 and 20 and eight layers of metal cutting bandsaw blade and we're just gonna weld the corners on this guy they don't want to put any weld inclusions into the side of this yeah I know all right let me get this guy peeled out of here and there we go that's our regular plate billet this is our chain and then we're gonna fold it just like that and where are we gonna stack this I'm thinking now I want that chain on the outside so I can hit it directly and that cable is just going to have to flatten out between the billet and the chain so we'll get through welding this thing up really quickly it was a little bit difficult to line up but I went through a big long process to get this welded together and make it straight enough it wouldn't sort of fall over when I started hitting it with a hammer or fold in half sideways so it took a little bit but we got there it wasn't too bad and then of course I welded that on both ends I'm gonna get it in the vise clamp it down just so we can keep it nice and straight there we go and then we tacked a chain in a couple of places in the middle to keep it nice and rigid so get a chain cable and our stack billet and this is our borax mixed with alcohol and that'll get in between all those little chain pieces and flex everything up real nice for us the alcohol will burn off in the fire leaving borax and all the little cracks and crevices on the inside right I need some flux on the rest of this and get this guy up to temperature and we're gonna go ahead and do this in a regular time so you can see all we're doing is just tacking this together we're gonna work this thing down slowly we're gonna take it easy on it so nothing comes apart and we're gonna compress everything and fill all those voids and gaps and we'll take several heats to do this just like that you don't have to hit it super fast like you're in fast-forward and you don't have to hit it really hard you got plenty of time you got your temperature up relax take it easy all right now we'll speed things up I actually welded this thing this way about four times but I only showed you twice here before we headed off to the power hammer this video was getting long enough as it is alright keep flexing it up we want to keep flexing on it the entire time until we can fill all those voids in it was at this point I realized that those big hammers under there kind of took some of the throw away from scrappy now that belet's know about four and a half inches wide at the moment but we may change a hammer configuration a little okay so you guys are going to get to watch me Forge this thing out under scrappy and using floyd and while that's happening you can watch that and we're gonna talk about a little giveaway so if you made it this far through the video what i want you to do is i want you to comment on the video and somewhere in your comment put the word skull as in brain pen skull and what i'm going to do is a giveaway and we're gonna give three of the skull bottle openers away and we'll do a random pic with a random name generator a random number generator using the word skull as a search so make sure you put skull in your comment somewhere in there and we'll pick three lucky winners and that drawing will be yeah we'll make it during the next video and that video should be out by december 2nd if not sooner we'll see how things go company christmas parties and things like that coming up so let's see anyway we worked this guy down to a three-quarter inch thick and we made him about two and a quarter inches wide at this point and we're just kind of smooth and everything out here punishing it and I can see several areas where there's sort of cold shuts in there and looks like maybe cracks things like that but not too worried about it okay so what we're gonna do is cut off about three and a half inches at the end of this thing where you know you get an uneven billet and things don't quite line up and it seems to have a few issues you'll see them here and it's got what looks like maybe some cracks in it and a little void in the back where the chains came together that kind of thing we're gonna weld a handle on this thing and we're going to get it under the press we're gonna take it down to a half inch thick and we're gonna narrow it up to an inch and a half wide and we're gonna do that at temperature and see if we can work some of those things out or see if it's truly correct now I don't expect much out of this particular piece because it is from sort of the the throwaway end of the billet but we'll see what happens and see how how much of that is just surface and how much or how many problems we actually have in the billet so this should give us a good good idea if it's worth drawing the rest of it out into some useable thing and by the way I won't be mentioning the giveaway anywhere else just in the middle of this video so if you watch the video and caught that then you can enter yourself alright okay there we go we're gonna grind the surface of this thing all the way around get that scale off and then we'll get it over to the belt sander and we'll smooth it out we're and I got to go too far with it probably 120 grit something like that clean it up a little bit just so that we can see the pattern in this thing I'm not sure how much contrast we're going to get the cable should give us some but I'm not sure about the forklift chain it's not like motorcycle chain it doesn't have rollers in it which are you know higher in chromium that kind of thing so I'm not really sure if that's just going to come out looking like one chunk of metal or it would should reveal something else but we'll see all right put a quick edge on this thing left it in for around 20 minutes and it looks like we can see something in that chain get this thing cleaned up a little bit and we'll take a little closer look at it I'm some steel wool over it and there's what we get so this is the very end it's all gnarled up where everything came together and the cables squished out but you can see that chain and the little silver lines or where the chain links I kind of ground through them you can see those links on the edge the layers of chain and you can see our cable in there it came out pretty good actually and then just above that that's our regular layered Damascus and surprisingly there's no cracks in this and there's no voids and it looked actually looks pretty good to me and this particular piece I think we might be able to do something with it along with the rest of this so all right let's head back to the office and we'll talk about it a little more alright guys there you go it was a little bit of a challenge but hey we made it through it you saw this guy you can't see any details in here the light kind of sucks but anyway that was our in flipping and the reason we clipped that off and did that explain this a little bit but we got some cold juice in there and on the surface and I wanted to see if I could work those up see if we could refine it down a little bit and end up with no crack second it worked I'm happy I think we're gonna build something out of that not quite sure what yet maybe you guys could leave some suggestions in the comments that would be cool and see what you come up with so anyway thanks for sticking with me guys if you like what you saw a little like button there and that would be cool helps out a little Channel quite a bit thanks to all the patreon guys thanks to all the subscribers now all you new guys who subscribed that's just super cool really really appreciate it we're gonna call it good this time around guys thanks for sticking with me through this crazy thing we'll talk to you soon take care and be safe we'll see you next time bye bye [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music]

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Id: 4I1sCiestkg

Length: 17min 23sec (1043 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 26 2017