Forging A Knife From Springs! Part 2

spring sprang spring sprang sprong spling spling wing wanga wing won it was a good video but in part one I had laid a huge egg you can go look at that video and see what I'm talking about moving on let's see if we can make things right number two with method number two a canister and the first part we tried to straight up Ford Springs together and I got an A for effort but an F - and spatial awareness today's a new day and after we get these Springs threaded together we're going to be using a canister Damascus technique to get our springing dings kaiser schmutz together the gap still completely closed when they're threaded like they did when they were heated and pressed in part one but we're gonna work with this and see what happens in the last video you saw that I made some different powder concoctions to see which one looked better with the spring and of the 1095 295 iron mix and iron I sort of decided to go to 1095 so this is 1095 with some 1084 thrown in because I just don't have enough 1095 here is we cut off the tip this was the end of the canister and this is sort of moving forward into the billet so here it is cross sectioned see some stuff starting to show up there on the inside so again this back part here is that canister and this and this are getting into the spring you can sort of see that first spring come around let's sacrifice a small piece Forge it out and see what we can expect now I mean you know what that's honestly more interesting than I thought it would be but I really want to see some of the springs on end so I've cut the billet in half I'm gonna try to forge one of the pieces thinner then cut it up into blocks and lay those pieces on end and put back together and then weld them to the top of our other billet as the spine of the knife so we'll have some on end running down the spine basically like this all right our pieces have been tack welded together let's see if we can forge them together next I brought him to forge welding heat I'm gonna try to do some tippy tap on the anvil before I take him to the press and really try to squish him together there yeah okay oh oh that's not right I tried to get this straight up and down so it press without bending but if we rewind it did a little bit you'll see I was distracted on account of being on fire now I have two pieces instead of one so I tried to weld them back together on the handle here the result being the production of a third piece I took one of those and forged it flat and etched it it's really too thin for us to use but maybe it'll make a guard or something later in the meantime I'm gonna weld a remaining billet nice and safe like in a canister - a piece of 1084 steel for the cutting edge the springs are hardened a ball but I don't know what the steel is or how to control their carbides and grain size so I'm just gonna use 1084 for the business portion of the knife no hard feelings Springs but hard feelings you suck so here it is i hammered this down here so I can get a little bit of Bend in the handle accessor like that style handle it turns down a little bit and angle ground off this here this is the spine of the knife this is the cutting edge this is a 1084 along it so I cut this off I'm gonna hammer this up on the anvil I'm gonna get this hot and hammer it up and that's all the shaping I'm gonna do a man while the rest of us gonna be angle ground to shape so I've got a nice thick piece of steel and I'm sort of wondering if I could do something more to alter the pattern since our little you know side view here that we were trying to work out along the top didn't really work out because they call it a fire maybe there's something else going to you like I've been thinking about putting a ladder pattern in for example right yeah remove some material on both sides and lines up and down in the squash it flat or drilling holes for a raindrop pattern and I'm not sure I don't know what the effect will because if we look at our sort of our test piece here the pattern as displayed here is mostly lines going this way in other words it's sort of stacked on the steel like this at least that's what we're seeing is stuff like this that's being revealed and really to get the most out of ladder as I understand an ore raindrop you need your different contrasting materials going more in this plane instead of this plane you know what I mean well after all that blabbin I decided to try a ladder pattern we'll just do a little rough-and-tumble version here our knife has been thermal cycled several times in the heat treat of unwrapped in the steel foil to reduce the oxidation in the oven and we're ready for the quench looks like our tip warped a bit let's March off to the grinder and adjust our profile a little shorter there's no sweat I bought this carbide file guide from creative men in Australia see the link below it slides open and shut easily finally the carbide this counter sunk to the steel guides unlike my last one where the strips were epoxy to the top and popped off while I was using it so take a look at this few guys are in the market for a file guide it's something I've really enjoyed I've liked it a lot so I think I'll save these stabilized Braille pieces for a hidden Tang knife and go with this butterscotch colored micarta these handles are going to fit a hair proud of the handle tang so that the Tang can stay edged after I fit the handles on because there won't be any sanding done to flush them up to the Tang I put the knife in ferric chloride a few rounds to etch in some relief and then I decided to use lemon juice to see if I can bring out some more interesting etch the lemon juice tends to add some patina type colors like yellow brown and purple that I don't see much with ferric chloride or vinegar so it brought out some of those here but ultimately I sort of polish them back I put this handle together by sanding the profile first and then I attached them with the loveless bolts and epoxy to the tang and at that point you have to grind flat the loveless bolts and when you grind them flat you remove some material and as I was removing some material I uncovered this little black spot right there and it doesn't sand out it's just there so I'll take you back to the sanding belt and take off a little more material than I would otherwise sand off and we'll see if it goes away I don't know but I'm overall very happy with this what do you guys think

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Length: 17min 31sec (1051 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 25 2019