Destroying a Car to make an Axe!

welcome back we've made a hammer from Nails we've made an Ax from a chainsaw chain and today I want to make a tomahawk from this fabulous Ford Fusion car the challenge is that every single component needs to come from this that means the steel for the blade the material for the scales on this Tomahawk and even the pins it's got to come from the car so we've got to find out what usable is inside this thing right old towel insole CD-ROM is anything good Dove's Greatest Hits how about the back seats this is aluminum we're looking for steel I haven't got a clue what I'm looking at here so maybe we Circle back to that later for now see what is underneath it what I'm looking for is good Edge steel this body panel is going to be made out of mild steel and it's really thin now there's some bits of the tomahawks construction that we could use this for but I want the edge steel I want the stuff that's got a higher carbon content hold a good Edge and so let's have a look underneath it [Music] safety is of course a very important priority here now this is the type of stuff I like the look of that is coil spring which is usually 5160 steel so that's 0.6 carbon which is a perfectly good nice deal the trouble is that is only about 12 millimeters in diameter half an inch in diameter we definitely got two here at the back 100 I want those so we've got to get them off other blooming do you get one of these off [Music] Jamie is this a fuel tank [Music] all right I reckon I need a pair of pair of these you need something for pin stock on this thing this looks like quite an interesting bit of copper pipe I feel like I've kind of exhausted what's under the back side of it let's have a look at the front side of it [Music] we see how strong a seatbelt is [Music] all right oh my God oh all right I think we need to pick it up a bit safer than that we're now at the workbench is the front side of a car and I am interested in this component here that is making power to the wheel I reckon that should be solid [Music] well hey it's solid that's a matching pair let's have a look and see what we can find under the engine now there we go Jamie now we're talking now we're talking I want Earth do they come out of there I don't know might need a new o-ring when we put this back together yeah that's definitely gone isn't it I think we need to clean this crap off it yeah smash that out hey he's only gone and done it cool I'm giving it a good wiggle yeah this must be good Steam Steel in the pile she goes all right let's get some sheet steel that's literally cardboard I lost it so here is what we have salvaged from the car only this from an entire car yes that's all that's useful unfortunately so I'm gonna start preparing steel these coil springs have this unsightly and quite stinky paint on it so we're going to sandblast this off sandblast all this stuff try and get the paint off the body panels because the plan is to forge all this stuff out and make a big old Billet of car Master Steel [Music] foreign [Music] let's Forge this down into some bar bloody hell okay we just had a pop and I thought something was exploding this goes flying out of the forge this was on the end of that oh my God no no it's Hollow that's most of our bloody material feels like it's solid though it really does that's a big problem I was counting on that being a significant part of the material for this project all right we'll call it spring it is [Music] I will be quite disgruntled if these are Hollow as well [Music] [Music] so I've ground up and cut up these billets we have the material from the axle and we have the material from the coil springs that we just welded together we're gonna get them tacked back up and go to the forge for a little more Forge welding [Music] so here we are out the fire we have a lot more coil spring material than we do axle material this is going to be the core of our Tomahawk this can be where the edge is from but what I do want is to get this chunk sized so that we can take two slabs of this axle material put one on either side before then finally cladding the very very outside with the mild steel from the body panels that we sandblasted up yesterday foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] so now is the time that we stack all of our material together it's going to be coil spring in the middle for the edge axle either side the mild steel body panels sandwiching it all together and hopefully that is enough for a tasty Tomahawk we do need to squeeze it really tightly when we tack weld it together so as little air can get in once it's heating but aside from that it's gonna be just like welding up any old Damascus Billet we just got to make sure that we keep the edge steel where the edge steel needs to be all right like all this might happen yeah that top layer is not gonna stick no chance alrighty let's see if this works it's been a long time coming please weld pretty pretty please it helps when you ask nicely all right so we've stuck together the Billet now we've got to think about how we're going to forge this Tomahawk also got to think about what the design is that would probably be quite prudent as well I'm looking to make something along these double lines and making this type of Full Tang Tomahawk typically it's made out of plate steel laser plasma water jet cut angle grinder cut whatever obviously we're trying to forge it out of this block and so I'm hoping that it can go like this from our Square bar we neck it down and isolate the material for the tang and the head then we take Fullers to spread the head out width ways hopefully getting ourselves some whip in an Ideal World I think we would have a little bit of a larger bar I have my concerns about whether this will be enough we're going to give it a good honest try okay Come for All bunny the Buns door for to come to life [Music] so I took it to the leg Vice to do a little bit of upsetting with the Sledge that's put a little bit more material where we need it and what I think we can do now that it's about half an inch to 5 8 of an inch thick probably between 12 and 16 millimeters thick because I think we can just spread the thing out using the edges of the flat die to get it spread the right direction and by the time it ends up being about a quarter of an inch or six millimeters thick it should be plenty wide enough for the tomahawk and then we will cut and grind to final size all right that is our big old chunk of metal we'll start grinding and if we need to stretch anything out I'll bend anything we'll do that as we go [Music] all right need to put a little Bend in this handle [Music] okay this is super cool I'm letting this cool down in the Forge nice and slow and where it's been ground the different layers of Steel are tempering in different ways that's pretty neat to be able to see that now that we have a little bit of time on our hands while that cools down I want to talk about the handle I want to take the seat belt I've decided that this stuff is useless and I want to Stack up a whole load of seat belt and make a Micarta from it end up making a block of something that's about this size we've never made any micartus this is going to be quite interesting because I've got no idea how we're going to do it but we've got resin we've got hardener and I don't really think it's any more challenging than put glue between fabric press all together boom you've got handle material [Music] foreign why did I think this was going to be quicker than just I don't know cutting it on the saw now I'm bloody committed oh it's gonna be a hernia [Music] all right let's see how it looks after a nice weekend a nice weekend what did it do it just chilled here on the table my clamp is glued to the table oh that is so strange [Music] Jamie have a feel of that the furry a fuzzy indeed it's gonna be the fuzziest little Tomahawk candles you ever did see these have been flattened off and I also went to the grinding room and just finished the profile of this I love it it looks mean now you remember we cut the brake pipe off the car that's going to be our pin material drill some holes rough grind some bevels heat treat the blade a little bit of sharpening a little bit of handle assembly a little bit of handle grinding and that it's gonna be a finished car tomahawk foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] goes full circle what was a car now destroys the car folks that's Tomahawk made from a car I'm chuffed to bits I hope you've enjoyed watching now since I've finally hit the ripe old age of 25 I need to shave at least once a week and though the peach fuzz that calls itself facial hair that grows on my face is nothing that impressive it's quite important that I shave it once a week well today's sponsor is Henson shaving with the al-13 aluminum razor they are a Canadian company they were an aerospace manufacturing shop and in 2020 the pandemic forced a shift in their business model and they decided hey they were 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Channel: Alec Steele

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Id: LZfp1exUHf8

Length: 16min 23sec (983 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 20 2023