Forging A Knife With Deer Antler Handle

I have another here with Ameren hand today were going to be fortune tonight using a piece of spring steel was off the mold forty seven dollars and I'll explain you along the way why spring steel tube for a knife clean there's a fortune a that multiple painting that was pretty good definitely gets the job done we got to running off the natural gas [Music] don't work this down into the main chamber there it's kind of wobbled out phallic what you see if you looked at the end of a profane took a few tries messing around to get it right now we got a real good burn on it so that's not gonna do what we need to do for this what we're doing here is we're taking a hot cut off you got stuck down in that car do us a little square hole on the top of the anvil we're using that to trim this piece off differently this would be done with like a brass mallet so not damaging that lay it on the edge of that hot cutoff but as long as you're careful you can see when the metal starts to split kind of slow yourself down that way you're not damaging the edge of that blade [Music] for this particular blades we're gonna be doing a mix between that drop point and a clip point but kind of like with a little bit of an island twist [Music] then here we're just gonna be flattening out the rest of this piece of spring steel it's got a curve to it in the software we'll pick up truck we're gonna flatten that out so that we can cut it in our bandsaw to get it down to a manageable shape so the other thing that we want to make sure of is that we've actually heated this metal all the way through so it's not too hard that we were not just knocking teeth off up in subway cut this back cut out our thing to give us a more manageable size for working with [Music] [Music] so now what I'm gonna be doing is actually hammering out the edge of the blade to give us the beginnings of the angle this blades gonna have [Music] from this angle here you can see that edge they're kind of flattening that up right in that bevel now what I have here this is basically a hold down clamp that I've made out of an old primary chain from a Harley and they've got a little loop there on the end you use that to hook to the side of the Ambo uses a flat piece of steel for a pedal step on the whole town so down here I've got a bolt with a spacer on it I cook this on when I loop the chain over the top of the anvil that'll be what actually holds our work down you just drop our pedal down to the side here and you see there and use the pedal and hold your piece down I'll use the cutoff just to give you an idea of how that works step on that now you got your hands-free you can actually work with two separate tools like a chisel and a hammer hold your piece down with your foot and we're gonna be using that right here to basically put a flat spot down through our our back of our blade now we're not gonna do this like a real clean line through this we're just trying to flatten that edge down so the would have to a quince this we can have a nice darkened area that stays kind of and forged looking give it a little bit of an old rustic mountain man kind of looking feel [Music] now I'm just removing a little more meat with our hot cutoff the main reason for doing this is just because closer we can get this plate to finish now the less work left to do later with grinders and files and things to get the shape that we're looking for and here I'm just gonna be trying to round out the back of this tang a little bit because eventually we're going to grind this all the way around even then we're gonna thread it we're gonna actually use a brass bolster to screw on to hold our handle in place [Music] so here we've got our Tang nice and straight and we just want to try and get our Aunt letter fit on it the piece we're gonna be using for the handle so in order to do that we're gonna have to do is drill a hole through it you can slide it on [Music] because of the curve in this handler we're gonna have to drill in that from both sides so here I'm just marking so I know how far I've gone in so I know how far to go in from the other side this in our mark [Music] when she's blowing through with to make sure I got the hole all the way through I'm just gonna take a square file and shape this whole lot to get to fit that tang right [Music] [Music] so now you can see here I've got a mark this is where we're gonna be taking this down to put our handle this will be where we start the edge of our blade and we're gonna use our press shop press just stick the my maker's mark on here that's what this is here you can do this with a hammer but I prefer to do with the press and a piece of tool steel for our face just because we get a get a lot more even press and get a lot more I'm more forcing and a lot better looking finished piece that even though it's a little hard to see here and get it to focus kind of see it there I have an aisle I got two little anvil on there and here we're just going to be shaping out the edge of the blade doing a little bit more of a mechanical finishing work gonna get that stop point looking the way we want [Music] and so then we're gonna move on to hardening and then I hear I've cut out some samples out of another chunk of that piece of spring steel and that old Dodge pickup and we're gonna be using these to explain what's going on when you're hardening now we could really get into the science of this but I'm gonna try and keep it relatively simple one thing is critical temperature I got my magnitude you see it still sticks there so we're not hot enough go back in the Forge with it as soon as you get this steel hot enough so the magnet won't stick that's when you act critical temperature that's where you want to quench now we're just using like a canola oil here that's a good thing I'll you want to preheat it you can just stick a hot piece of metal in it before you go to punch your pieces and that should warm it up there's nothing now it's hardened two of these now and what I'm gonna do is take this one and we're gonna actually set the temper [Music] so I'm grinding off that surface scale and the reason for that is so that we can see the bluing because to make this easy we're just going to use a little propane torch you'll be able to see the bluing coming across that metal if we heat that up [Music] the whole idea here is to get this to the right temperature without getting too hot we get too hot it's gonna soften it we don't get hot enough it'll still be brittle so we're trying to hit like a 500 degree range we're gonna be actually watching the color in our metal to do that when we actually go to do our blade we'll just use an up and to get a lot more even heat a lot easier and a lot more control well this will work fine for the sample just to show you what's going on here so this piece have been normalized this piece has been quenched it but it hasn't hasn't been tempered in this piece has been quenched and tempered so we'll start with our normalized piece of Steel it's just been heated and as you can see there and just nice and soft went ahead and bent right over for us no problem next is our piece that we quenched but we didn't actually set the temper and it's gonna be real hard you go see a snaps right off it's like a piece of glass [Music] now also just to show you real quickly the speech we've got you can do a file test to figure out how hard your your metal is you can hear their sound that that's making is rubbing across head it's just skating across it like a piece of glass it's not really biting into the metal at all either you can see the edges clean that's just just not bitin in that's a real hard piece of steel now here's our piece that was quenched and we've set the temper on it you can see it's bouncing right back so we've got a nice hard piece of steel but we've also got the temper set so it's tough it's not too hard it's not brittle and that's what we're looking for and our blade that's the reason why spring steel works good for this [Music] so like I said before we're gonna be using just a regular kitchen oven this one I just modify this kind of turn it into a shop of them I'm just gonna take a little infrared thermometer here and check our temperature to make sure that we're getting where we want you kind of want to hit between 450 and 500 degrees worth to me we're good in the past you see there were 4 67 so we're good we're gonna leave it in there for an hour and then we're gonna pull it back out and we're gonna let it air for now once it's cooled down we're gonna put it back in there for another hour we're gonna do that two or three times yeah I'm just taking a 150 grit using the file to get a nice flat edge using this to clean that scale off that plate out there harden that back nice and clean look [Music] [Music] [Music] all right now we get the blade and sand along the edge cleaned up I'm going to leave the top section of this black I'm like that from the oil quench because kind of rustic for the knife is what we're going for this one so an antler handle here go ahead and cleaned up the tangle in the morning you can spit a little better after filing out that answer you've got pretty snug fit and so the nice thing about this is we have the benefit having the strength of a full tank our blade going through our handle you know we using an antler handle whereas some people might just create a couple of Nick's and not just their books or something and short bang and just trying epoxy it into the handle [Music] I'm gonna make a self bolstered piece of leather today we're going to do a bolster on the bottom and we're going to under attack the brass bolster the other way so here we've got our pieces laid out we've got some vegetable tanned leather here this is sole leather it's real thick from making shoe soles if you we've got some finished up about eight ounce and we got our brass pieces dreams for our bolsters is top section here's our bottom bolster we using a thick piece of brass there for that we got a thread that screw onto our tank so we're just gonna mark out our tank so we know how far to bring our threads in [Music] we're just gonna take digital calipers here just to measure and make sure we got this the right size pretty good we're gonna be doing this at a 5/16 by 24 but it really doesn't matter what size you do this it just so happened necess eyes we kind of landed on because of how big this needed to be to fit into that antler you can see that we've got it threaded now we just need to figure out where to cut it off at [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so now here what I'm doing is I'm taking a piece of tape and I'm just gonna mark my drill bit so I know how far to drilling with this I don't pop right through this bolster [Music] I'll use the antler who to figure out exactly what we're going to be drilling that hole so everything lines up right [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so now that we've got our stop little guard made leather piece and bar handle on a lot a piece for our bottom section wait a second we're gonna need something for this green lactide stuff doesn't come off once it goes on a couple of drops of that that'll keep this from coming apart while you're using the knife now once we thread the bolster onto the bottom and get all the pieces lined up right by tightening this up press everything tight into place you see that green lock that's already setting up on me all right so now you've got the whole thing together and we can finish shaping all the pieces up [Music] and I'm going to start that by shaping the bolster and here I'm just using a flat sanding disc just to remove the majority of the meat off of this and start to get the shape that we're looking for [Music] [Music] so I have to sanding this with the file we're gonna take the DAO to the dual action sander and we're starting with a 320 grit and we're gonna step through a few grits on this to get this sanded down and then we're gonna polish it up there's your finished knife now we did a wet polish just put some water and a piece of wood on that leather so that's just the natural leather there and we went through and polished the whole thing up I think it turned out pretty nice hopefully we gave you guys enough information on this so that you can go through and do this without giving you too much information and make a little overwhelming you can get into the science of how to harden the piece of steel and and there's really really a hell of a science to it so tried to keep it simple and just give you the information you need so you'd be able to do this on your own you see you even got a good feel to it good grip and it's got a good balance to it too all in all I think we got a pretty good back woods looking knife here yeah thank you for watching [Music] you

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Length: 24min 51sec (1491 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 04 2019