FORGING A NAVAL BOARDING AXE!!!

ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the workshop it is brilliant to have you here fantastic to have you here coz the forge is hot and even though we still need Forge doors on this thing we said we're going to make Forge doors and we forgot about at about six months ago today's project is to make a French naval boarding axe is gonna look a little bit like this I'm excited to try some new techniques some familiar techniques and most of all swing some hammers and have a good time before we jump in put the steel in the fire let's thank our sponsor today's episode is brought to you by our sponsor hero they make a phenomenal a Wi-Fi a solution and if you go to Ericom forward slash forge and use code forge fo RG e a check out you're gonna get your arrow system delivered with free overnight shipping you can have it tomorrow let's get into the video so here are our materials we have a three by one by three and a half that is 75 by 25 by about 82 millimeter long piece of mild steel we also have this inch and three-eighths or 35 millimeter w1 high carbon steel material much like when we made the Grim Reaper scythe the other day we're gonna be making the body of the tool out of mild steel and the bits the blade itself is gonna be high carbon steel this is a similar way that they would have been made historically and except they would have had a wrought iron body high carbon edge we're not gonna do it the same way we made the side though what we folded it instead we're gonna split it and then shut the high carbon edge it's like you make a taco out of hot steel and then you put your taco fillings in and 4/12 your taco back together [Music] [Applause] [Music] all righty so these are our parts one piece of w1 thank you for grinding that will one piece of mild steel hot split down the middle the next step is as follows mild steel piece is going in the Forge we're gonna close it up to the point that we can force into it our w1 high carbon piece will heat both up and Forge weld them together hopefully this goes well hopefully we don't spit out that tapered piece of steel it feels like that's exactly what would happen hopefully it sticks and it's just easy peasy lemon squeezy we got ourselves a boarding axe let's go to the fire sitting at the forge that we're about to forge well something out of his pot that is exactly what I'm saying no [Music] this is a tricky wealth to make please try to squish that piece out of that you'll see in here there's actually even a little bit of a hole from where it's not fully closed up so hopefully ask me Forge it it'll close up and get tighter but it's a whirring one this is not an easy world I get to take it to the power hammer you see all the hammer done it might have gone well might have not gone well I still don't like the way that looks inside there I'm going to take another one or two welding heats hopefully it closes up if it does we're then going to isolate the blade half from the body and the spike and draw that material down [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay folks next step we're gonna take this hammer I'd punch and we are gonna punch open the hole we have will holding these pieces which are actually get spades us to say bending it has me drift yet one side I'm gonna release it from the trip just like that flipping it over and then we go back into the other side to open it up bit by bit okay so here's where we're at we have a hole opening up quite nicely and we have a piece with a big fat end that needs to be a spike and a very non blade looking section as we go here are going to be alternating from drifting up on the cheeks to forging down the spikes to working on the blade and hopefully a little bit by a little bit without going too far too fast in any one place we will end up with a perfectly sized die a nice spike and a good-looking hand out blade [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right let's watch the blade [Music] [Applause] [Music] and with that the axe is done well it's forged it's night time eager [Music] okay so now that we've got that bleed forged out and it's cooled down take this nice piece of American hitting to cut it up into a handle [Music] [Music] the axe has cooled down we've got the handle roughed out and before we fit that up we want to do some grinding on this bad boy namely the main shaping of it grind a curve into the blade and then grind those transitions in here as well the spike and the and the eye all looks really good and this transition here on both sides all looks really really nice it's mainly the profile grinding that we're gonna have to take care of do some angle grinding that'll be very fast that'll be the fastest for getting this stuff out then we'll slap a 36 grit belt in the belt sander and get her done [Music] [Music] [Music] okay so we got it all ground up it's time to throw it in a Paragon heat-treating oven for a little bit of heat to treat it so while that's heating up I figured I'd go over a little bit of the history of the boarding axe these were a pretty popular and common tool on every big ship basically from like a 1400s until it kind of the late 1800s these axes were stationed kind of at each cannon basically and so it was a weapon that they could use to first off fight off you know people who were boarding their ship they could grab one and go jump onto the other ship but then that spiked on the back and the way that it's designed is you can use it to clear out fires and stuff like that that spike you can grab like big logs drag them out of the way throw them off the ship whatever they're there the grandfather to the modern-day fire axe that you guys it's a pretty common shape with that kind of spike on the back that's enough of that for now we'll let that thing heat up and we'll give it the old quench with a great job grinding that piece up getting it ready for heat stream setting up the fume extractor because the way we're gonna harden this blade is probably gonna cause a lot of smoke and fire and flashing so I'm also gonna put a jacket on some gloves and a face shield and we're gonna harden it we do a little temporary okie-dokie so we have that blade edge quench do you see the martensite on it beautiful what we also have is we have a lot of residual heat in the feet and so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna scratch it up with a sanding disc we're gonna make the Kemper colors run all the way up from this hot section here to the edge so we can get a template what I'm gonna do after this first temper is I'm gonna do a second temper cycle in the oven so we can get it very nicely stress relieved and toughened that edge so it doesn't chip on it you can see that light blue here is crawling up towards the edge we just have to be patient and pay very close attention to not over tempo got a pretty even straw on it we're now gonna put it in the oven after the temper I gave it a wire brush we put it back in the oil it's looking phenomenal all we have to do next is put the final layer on it and throw a handle in it [Music] [Music] okay this is actually working really well I need one of these for my kitchen [Music] [Music] so to finish off I very triumphantly spiked this into that OSB and it was very challenging to get out but that's what this is designed to do there it's a fire axe you'd be able to supposed to be able to stick it into things fun project a great one it has been an absolute pleasure bringing along the making of this naval boarding axe I hope you have enjoyed it I have had so much fun forging it we're gonna be giving it away to a follower of our brand new Instagram page Alex steel code check it out there's gonna be way more behind the scenes stuff as well as more of our bladesmithing blacksmithing metalworking supply stuff there so go check it out they'll follow we're gonna be giving this away and as we end the video I'd love to thank today's sponsor which is helping us get connected to the big wide world of the internet next door in the warehouse and that 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Channel: Alec Steele

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Keywords: alec steele, alex steele, steel, alec, damascus, blacksmith, make, forge, anvil, mill, lathe, weld, tig, mig, engineering, blacksmithing, blade, bladesmithing, knife, knifemaking, sword, handmade, diy, craft, woodworking, forged in fire, axe, fabrication, art, naval boarding axe

Id: 5-gc8hX4scI

Length: 16min 48sec (1008 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 06 2019