Can you forge rebar into tools?

hello everybody welcome back to the workshop so today we are going to find out if you can make tooling from rebar this is a piece of rebar that was given to me by a Bob Crewe shank a great guy great friend of mine he gave me this this steel that has was given to him and it is likened to somewhere around a 1084 to 1095 now that's what I have been told about this now in a previous video I have already sparked tested this and I will go ahead and show a short clip here of me spark testing that 1090 this this particular rebar here and it threw a lot of really great sparks as you can see very comparable to what I would compare it to a 1084 1095 but what we're going to do is we're going to give this thing the real test the way that we're gonna really test this to see if it does any good for punches and chisels is I'm gonna Forge this out to about like a cait chisel essentially a metal cutting chisel that you would use to cut troughs and things like that or cut out in between two saw cut marks on a piece of steel and we're going to do that do exactly that today after we went through the heat treatment of this now since this is close to a 1080 for 1095 I'm going to assume that it is a water hardening steel so we are going to clinch it in water then we are going to draw it back to a straw like color which I would do on say a coil spring steel which is like a 50 160 or what I would do on any 1095 or 1045 tool steels that I would be using for this particular instance so let's get this in the Forge and let's forge our captchas allow this and see if it will cut okay so to get a decent control of what I'm doing here I want to take and stick this piece of material the fire and I want to bring it up to temperature very slowly anytime you are working with a high carbon tool steel you mean to bring the material up to temperature slowly otherwise you're going to take and have cracks at a later date when you go to the actual hardening process this isn't always a causation of cracks but it is correlated correlation again does not antiquate out to causation but it is a factor so something to keep in mind so we are going to bring this thing up to heat really nice and slow light and then we'll be over at the anvil and pounded away one thing to indicate about this piece of rebar if you will is that it has two dots now I was told that these two dots on the rebar have that's the significance that is indicating that this is the type of Steel you want to use her punches and chisels again I'm just going off of information here third party information so take it with a grain of salt we're going to give this a good test and I'll be right back over with yet the anvil and we'll get this forged out and I'll give you my thoughts as I'm forging it of the way it feels under the hammer okay so the material heated very very quickly and already I can tell you that this material is quite tough this stuff is hammering quite hard [Music] I think this is gonna be excellent stuff again try not to come at it with any preconceived bias this is the first time I am ever working this stuff so you know bear with me never work this stuff before so you're experiencing it for the first time like I am so far we've got a nice little square taper on there we need to keep going in order to turn this into a cake chisel I'm gonna make it a little thinner yet so let's take another heat on that let me know in the comment section if you have any interest in me doing a video on how to forge can chisel that's not the subject line of this video the video here is just to show me making if we can get this thing hard in a usable tool so that's what this video is about but let me know in the comment section if you'd like to say can see a whole video series on that making a cape chisel okay we're gonna forge in our secondary bevel of our cake judo start that close here step towards down leave it fairly thick at the end is what we'll be doing and then we'll be put in our set our primary bevel here by grinding that in the forging the secondary bevel in really saves material so we're gonna do that first so there we go we got our secondary bevel in now some of Kate chisels are actually curved this one I'm just going to leave straight and leave it straight up no need and putting a ton of time into this I just want to see if this is gonna work but we're gonna go ahead and start with that so far it's pretty tough stuff so I'm going cut this off and we'll go over to the grinder and we'll go ahead and grind this now [Applause] [Applause] so just like in other videos of hardening and tempering chisels I'm going to take and do this in a one-step process basically I do this quite often sometimes I use oil it all depends on the material but for this particular instance I don't know what I'm working with I'm just going to go ahead and try it the way that I would do this what I would call a quick hardening and tempering way of doing things we're going to start with a struck end in the fire I'm going to heat it up nice and hot bring that end up to critical then I will flip around and put the cutting edge into the fire and bring it up to critical or non-magnetic temperature now in other videos like I've explained if you look in that if you were paying attention to when I was grinding it I ground a little flat across the edge so it's not a sharp cutting edge the reason for this being is I need more surface area of material there when it engages the water so this way I don't get cracking or crackage now worst case scenario this thing hardens up too hard and gets really brittle and ends up cracking in water and if it does that then I'll go into oil and we would do it in oil instead but the point of this is can you harden rebar or can you make tools from rebar so far the way I feel about it is yes you can if it's the right kind of rebar but we'll see how it works once we actually get to cutting steel with it and it ought to be interesting so I'm gonna go ahead I'll skip all the quenching and stuff I'm gonna draw it back to straw just so we can get on with the video if you have interest in watching videos of hardening and tempering I've got a slew of them on the channel you can look at the chasing tool series that I have done and hardening and tempering a chisel and that should answer all your questions there just go to the playlist section on the channel so I'm gonna skip that step and we're gonna go right on to seeing if this bad boy can cut some steel okay so here we go we've got our bevel ground on it once again I took this to a straw color and now we're going to see if we can't cheer this piece off and how well it actually ends up holding up to this abuse so far it is cutting pretty good as a sharp tool should nice and clean shear line so far them right across being shorn it's about there and there we have it so we cut that clean off there now if this was a piece of mild steel or some sort of questionable quality steel this sharp of an edge would have been gone this thing is 100% perfect in perfect shape I'll take you over the workbench and zoom you up real close so you can see it I have not retouched this up I'm not going to retouch this up but I could take and come in here and cut this all day cut even more material out here all day long and it's a like I said it's a pretty amazing thing really that you can do this and just cut this piece [Music] nothing at all on this thing perfectly in good shape cut right down through this piece like as if it was butter no edge deformation whatsoever this is eighth inch plate by the way that I'm working on this is a mild steel plate or like a 10:18 plate and this thing's just shredding it no edge damage whatsoever the things still razor-sharp so let's go over real quick to the bench and I'll show you the edge again I'm not touching this up so let's go to the bench so there you have it folks yeah perfectly as you can see the edge suffered no damage no wear and tear whatsoever let me try to zoom in a little closer there we go no edge damage whatsoever my assumptions right or the guys assumption was right of this being like a 1080 for 1095 type steel I think he said 1080 for was what it was closely resembled too so I'm gonna assume that it is pretty much a 1084 tool steel that you can make it's a high carbon steel if you make cuts but you know I've sheared off that little bit there and chopped into this there was no edge damage whatsoever you know just as sharp as when it came off so there you go you've got your questions answered hopefully yes you can make tooling out of rebar or found quality steels basically the only stipulation I can see is that you need to take and find the proper rebar that actually has that's for high tensile applications and I think it would be okay again check the nomenclature with it don't buy a ton of it until you checked out a little small sampling of it and see if it's actually going to work out you may want to make four or five tools up from different sections of it because rebar has been known predominantly in the past not to be a very good quality steel but then again it may have gotten a lot better considering we are in modern times now and it is used in almost every single concrete pour so that's it for today I hope you enjoyed it if you did leave me a like let me know what you think in the comment section down below were you impressed with the results or the results just really not that not that interesting to you just let me know in the comment section down below as always I look forward to hearing from you and as always god bless you we'll catch you on the next one thanks for watching

Channel: Christ Centered Ironworks

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Id: BBs0y9ZlmA0

Length: 14min 20sec (860 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 30 2018