How to make a knife from a file with an angle grinder

so you want to make a knife but you don't have a 2 x72 belt grinder any kind of belt grinder drill press a forge but if you got 20 $25 and one of them cheap tool stores nearby you I'm going to show you how to make a Tanto is style knife out of a file with an angle grinder so we'll be using a Nicholson brand file it's old and an angle grinder we'll be using a cut off wheel a regular grinding wheel and a flap disc wheel so let's get to it so the thing with a file is very hard and brittle it's already been heat treated and it's made to cut steel now you can cut your knife out and do all that stuff and then do what we're going to do next which is temper it that will reduce the hardness a little bit make it a little more tougher it won't be as brittle I like to do that first so I'm going to go ahead and temper the knife at 400° for 2 hours twice so the thing you have to remember is it's already been Heat treated so all we're going to do is temperate now we're not going to be using a forge anything like that this is just for someone that doesn't have all that kind of equipment we're just going to be making this knife from an angle grinder so that means we got to watch our heat when we start profiling it cutting the bevels and that sort of thing I can't stress them enough if you get it too hot you'll ruin it if you get Beyond a gold color into the purple you have softened The Edge too much or softened the blade too much and it'll ruin it so keep that in mind we're going to be using fresh disc to do the cutting and profiling and the bevel cutting and I'll be cooling it with water now I do 99.9% of my grinding after heat treat anyway but I'm running on a 2X 72 where I can control the speed run it slow with a fresh 36 or 50 grit belt I can keep that blade cool I don't ruin the temperature with a angle grinder you're talking about high RPM so you have to be very careful very delicate use water and keep it cool I can't stress it enough but you can do [Music] it [Music] n [Music] yeah yeah [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]

Channel: Tony Severio Knives

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Id: 4jm8Anw8P2I

Length: 11min 10sec (670 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 11 2023