Knife making - 25mm thick titanium fixed blade

get out guys it's dumb here from DB blades so today we're getting a little bit ridiculous this is something that I don't think has ever been done before - perfectly honest I could be wrong but I haven't seen it before anywhere and there's a good reason for it this is 25 millimeter thick titanium six Hale four V that is absolutely ridiculous in the knife making pasty this is ridiculous that's it I don't even know how I can put this into words how unuseful this will be this is not going to make a useful tool in any stretch of the imagination but I don't care for me the idea is to sort of make a sculpture of a knife and to make something a hundred percent original reason being is I've got the sitting knife show coming up in a few weeks and I'm a competitive bastard who wants to have something totally different to everybody else this is definitely going to be it because I will be incredibly surprised if somebody else has something this ridiculous at the show and I don't know what it is when I pick this up I get like this evil grin on my face and I feel like a super villain it's going to be great if it works which is the problem because 25 mil thick thick titanium is going to be a pain in the arse on all of my tools and equipment especially since most of it is very cheap stuff now the first step for me anyway is I've got to make sure that I build it to the shape I want and the way I usually do that is with a paper template now I'm going to say this is not going to be tutorials so I'm not going to cover what I do in very great detail it's more just going to be I don't know a recollection of or a video about how the knife was made for my own personal amusement I guess so I'm not going to explain how I do things and don't copy me because I'm probably going to do something very stupid in putting this together so now that we're on my plan here is I'm probably gonna come in here within here with a band saw at least try to anyway chop of a big chunk up here and maybe here now I don't know how it's going to work so we're going to try that next okay so we're already off to a great start and managed with the template on backwards not a big deal just put it on the other side and this time it should line up perfectly and it should help us go now we're going to try this in the fan saw this time and do I ask what the bottom of the model name for the bandsaw is I don't remember besides you don't want this one anyway because the person designed this must have hated his own life because the the extraction technique will does techniques which other blades is really badly designed and it makes you yell and swear and it is not great anyway my plan of attack you know again just go at this head on now this is going to kill this band saw blade guaranteed but the question is how much much here or can I get through before it dies now I'm going to set this back all the way I'm going to try and take this cut as slowly as possible so try a bit of lubrication I've never use this stuff before so we'll see how it goes if that doesn't work I have some other oil and we'll try that but this should be better so let's try it we plugged in yes regarding I'm being very careful to be this as slowly as possible the worst thing I can do is how it's over stress this bandsaw blade I'm physically slowing this down by hands I just let this go this would actually be cutting faster but I don't want it to take such big cuts I want us to be going really really slow I'm going to go regress this blade and I'm probably gonna cut it there I don't like that sighs I think the fairings aren't very happy with something so we're still cutting through this I probably cut this video a few times at this point since I've been here forever so we're getting through it cutting nicely the blade is still cutting semi straight and yeah I'd like to stop a couple times to get these chips away those chips catch fire if you're not careful and we are almost through now I got to be a long video until already but he'll just going to take a while to mop meso stop through it and we are almost come on there we go that there is victory now this is a fresh bandsaw blade so that probably helped us quite a bit but you can see that whoops we got through this no problem cuts a little on the piss but we're through that's great news we're going to try that again but try and push our luck and I'm going to cut this video here because you don't need to see all of this because it's going to take a very long time so that result was totally unexpected I fully don't fully expect this bandsaw blade to crap out in the first cut but we got through it the band saws is the bandsaw is making some funny noises but it's alright it's still working fine and I think now that I see how well it's cutting I'm going to try something a little different I might drill a bunch of holes down here and then try cutting down into them with a bandsaw now normally this is a normal thickness I just grind this out but this is going to take a very long time to sand so we're just going to cut this I reckon and try our very best to cut it as much material as we can with a bandsaw so let's see how that works and also the cut quality is actually fairly good it's not perfect but the slant is reasonable and it is you know through so I might do something with this stone oh and these are just cool as ell because that is ridiculous I did not expect this to cut through all right let's try the next thing this is the walls hole I reckon and we are through I recognize the last hole that all right so I've probably said this already but the plane is what I've done here I've chained drill you've got a head and chain drill the hole lunch of holes through here and I'm going to use the bandsaw to come in here here and try and cut out as much this as I can sort of essentially done is I've given the bandsaw R a much easier time of cutting and the bandsaw doesn't work we'll use an angle grinder and if that doesn't work I've got a hacksaw so I'll get through this somehow ok so we're back to the bandsaw again and this is where I really want to start being careful because this is not what it's made for at all now in a perfect world I'd have a very good horizontal horizontal vertical bandsaw one of the big have you built once a metal but I don't so this is going to have to do I'm going to figure out how to cut it with it if it was on so that's done there is it save me a lot of time you know I've changed my mind I don't want to go down through the side I'm just going to come down and just go just take out a whole bunch and just break these chunks out by hand now that I think about it it might actually better that it's thick for the bandsaw because the little stuff it really rips out the teeth when you're putting the thinner materials but I reckon to the so thick the teeth are actually getting a good chance to bite and spreading out the pressure which is not what I would expected but hey I don't know everything and I haven't mentioned already a huge thank you to Zack for the titanium I think I have he gave it to me he bought it a year ago and couldn't do anything with it so I'm gonna see what happens to this there we go that's the last one so I'm going to try and smash these out but so we here at the vise and my plan is to break these out will it work probably not but we'll see Brittish what my safety glasses on for this not that's not working I think it's going to work so what can I do here we've we've cut through it all the way so this is the part where I'm going to cut the camera off because this is going to get kind of dangerous it's not breaking out the way I wanted it to so I'm going to do something stupid so you're not going to see that so there we go after about [ __ ] two hours of work we have managed to cut out the very very rough profile so I'm still going to sand this down sand this day and get the shape in get everything even flat a lot of work still to go but we're getting somewhere okay so this next part I'm going to sound a little muffled I've got a respirator on and the idea is I'm going to take the sander and just send all this titanium down to the paper now this part here and this part here is going to take me quite a while so I'm just going to don't chug head on in it'll come off eventually it'll just take a really long time and we're going to using this hollow grinding wheel mainly because it's a it helps with the with the wood it helps just a small area a smaller surface area so it cuts a little faster often they go through with a flat pad platen anyway now cuz I'm doing it I have to be very very careful that I don't satisfy those you can see we will get me some Theory part so after much sanding and yelling and fighting I've got this thing rough that I've taken a 50 grit belt or at least four or five 50 grit belts judging the other ones on the floor over there too rough at the outside shape all these outside corners and everything have been rounded over and smoothed out a next step I have to do a 120 on these flat pebbles as well just so you know clean up a little bit but here I am and I'm going to be doing taking the grinder in the horizontal position and I'll be just in sanding the internal radius here just to clean it up a little bit and after that of course I go to a 120 as well and clean up this internal shampoo here chamfer our contour here running out of words so it's going well it's taking a lot longer than I would have liked but we're making progress so let's try this then when titanium gets hot it sort of lets up this gas and it you can the whole room stinks of it right now so I'm going to open a window in a bit anyway let's get on now the reason you're looking at my messy workbench is because I am going to start applying Dyke hem and this stuff is engineering guy Dyke em for the brand I think anyway so I was originally thinking I was going to contour the handles completely first but now that I look at it I reckon I'm going to grind the bevels and for the main cutting edge reason being it's a little bit more it should be a little easy this way and in here I don't really need a flat surface so hopefully this where I makes my life easier I also grin this top part year mostly off camera I just really had to concentrate so I didn't really want to have to mess around with a camera when I was doing that and this blue stuff yeah it's just a helps you see my scribe line so I don't screw things up the thing about this stuff is that it stains the crap out of your hands there's a reason I have Smurf things and this is it and also stinks anyway I think we're gonna have some problems roughing it out on the hollow grinding wheel especially but just because it's just so much contact with the blood with a belt at once but we'll see might have to try some things together to work anyway give it a second to dry so I think we're going to go sort of Center I'm not really fast if it's dead center or not because I scrape from both sides so it doesn't really matter that much so there now I know my Center I think I'm going to take the grind up to about here at first but I'll see how it goes I might take it higher I might take it lower depends that I feel and there we go give it a second to dry properly and we'll start running I was running along my 50 grab belts and just as I ran out I got my fresh batch in I had to put in a big bulk order for these blaze belts I don't usually use these I prefer the hermes belts because these are more expensive and the hermes belts are pretty much just as good not quite but they're not but these are double the price so I don't know I currently justify buying these most of the time but I was I was desperate and my supply didn't have any Hermey so this is what I went with so see how this goes see it makes a huge difference I'm titanium I'm betting not but we'll see and sorry about the rain the background guys we're coming into winter right now in Australia so it is Britain freezing cold in here let's see here we go Oh okay so it has been days and days since I started grinding this it did I think it took me about maybe four or five hours to put a bevel on this knife and I killed about five or six of these belts here these are blaze belts and they're about 15 bucks a pop here in Australia and they've also killed a few hermes belts as well so I'm well over a hundred bucks and braces right now just on this project so I hope I can sell this for a lot of money otherwise I'm screwed anyway so thank god the bevels done it's not perfect but I can finish that up by hand with a hand sanding sticks next step I got to start putting the contours in here and so for this next part I'm going to come in here I'm just going to clean out the internal curve and I'm when we're using a die grinder with a carbide burr bit at the end I am going to put my face mask on mainly because I don't want to have shards of titanium in my face but probably doesn't work anyway to protect my lungs in the shop so the more observant among you to notice I'm playing DICOM and a slightly different matter this time what I did before was I just put on a rag but after posting on a Facebook group about how I could do a better a lot of guys recommend and taking one of these markers here and just filling it up with dye camel this is probably one of my favorite knife making tips I've ever gotten because it lets me put down loads of the stuff which is what I want I want a nice thick coverage of the stuff of my work without getting it all over my hands which is pretty much how I did it before which is one of the things that's so great about Facebook and all the knowledge it's on Facebook now here what I'm going to be doing is I'm just going to be scribing out how far I want to take everything I think for this bevel I want to go really deep and this just gives me a reference to work - I didn't mess and scratch it up right there which is not a good thing to do alright that'll have to do give it a second to dry and I'll just try and do that so for the next part I'm going to come back in here with a diagram you can see I've already done a little bit off camera and the plan is just to grind it out I've one of the great things about the work rests here is that you can use a sort of an adjustable table when you're doing stuff like this I'll do most of my handle scales clamp down on a bench where I can work on the with a die grinder or Dremel this way and it's sort of a comfortable height when I'm standing and if I really need it I can get one of these cheap lights here to illuminate my work in this part I'm going to put a pattern right in this flat area right here it's gonna be a random pattern I don't want it to be anything structured like Eames oh it's just a random rock pattern going to put it in with a two inch wheel on the velcro no and no 220 grit belt I'm probably gonna go through a few of these just because the 220 grit belt doesn't have a whole lot of life when you do this sort of stuff and you need a really sharp belt otherwise it sort of to give you this weird it's not a sharp it's not as crisp as it could be definitely wearing a respirator though the braces on this is not good to breathe in so I'm not going to say a whole lot with this respirator on so you just have to watch well see what I do so that's the rock pattern down on this side you can see the crap is all over my hands and I don't know am i doing on the spine as well and on the insides I haven't decided yet you can see I sort of crapped up with the the pattern onto the the flat right here that's just to give it more of a three-dimensional shape around about the tops because I want this to be I want this 3-dimensional challenges of the with a block like a solid block without handles is to get that three-dimensional look which is why I've gone with a rock pattern anyway now I'm going to decide how I'm going to do any more painting or not or what else I want to do right now I'm just fixing up some our mistakes in the grown-up right here you can see I struggled a little bit the slight gap where I was struggling with the plunge and then plunges themselves they've got sort of a lumpy texture to them there even with the sort of lumpy so I'm just going to take that up by hand on the contact wheel now if you're smart you'll make a sanding block with the same diameter or the same radius as this contact wheel I didn't do that so this is the next best thing it works it's just a little less convenient but will get the job done this is just a 120 grit belt I'll go to about 400 I'm guessing I'm not looking for a hand rub satin I'm just trying to get these mistakes out and make sure there's no grind lines in there when I go to sandblast this and this is a very long and very tedious process this is going to take me about two three hours I'm guessing just because there's just a lot of material needs to come out okay so I've gone over a few times and I've checked everything everything seems pretty even and everything that doesn't isn't even right now or is rough right now I'm going to clean up post sandblasting I took a really long time on this because I really want to get as much to the work lines or the grind lines out of the pattern as I could and what I'm going to do now is I'm going to put in the kiln it's not you can't heat treat titanium it might marginally harden it which would be nice but I'm mainly is doing this of the color so I just stuck a probe in and we're looking pretty good we're about 450 I think we're going to go back to 600 I'm not really sure uh I'll just keep on checking at see when I sound like the color it will change one check once I quench it so we'll see how it goes so after sandblasting it heat coloring it and it's other stuff we've got this really nice dark purple blue a kind of po not really purple more like a blue bordering on purple kind of a kind of a deal and he just saw me give it a quick satin finish on the belt I will decided to go with a belt finish satin instead of a hand rub because I really wanted to to show you the hollow groin on this one and that nice effect it has on it reflects light so the trick here is just to be really consistent and take your time it's going to be a little easier does that I have a plunge to worry about but I still got to take my time to be careful with this because if I [ __ ] up now I don't really have a chance to do a do-over there's not a lot of steel left in the grind and if I heat this up again I'm worried that I might warp the edge because it's just so thin compared to the rest of it then nothing queer right there just took the plastic off if you're sure not quite shaving we're close to out as close you can get with that tinia many way and there we go so I'm going to call this one done it is probably my favorite knife of ever made and it probably will be for a very long time just because it was so bloody difficult it just took so long I haven't put this much work or this much time into a build for a very long time it took me about six to ten hours just to get the rough shape cut out with AB answer on the grinder and then hours on top ton to hours the top of our was to do the bevels and all the texturing and all the polishing took me I'm not exactly sure because I had a I did this over a few weeks because this isn't really a client job so I have to spread this over about over weeks and weeks but it did take a very long time and so much money in abrasives to the point where it's actually scary I didn't even realize you could spend this much money in two braces on a knife but it's done and that's the main thing and I'm very happy with how turned out this knife was really touch and go quite a few times especially grinding the bevel I struggled with these plungers this is definitely going to go down into my little baby book of knives I'm proud of finishing all right so thank you for watching guys I really appreciate it I'm going to roll in some still photos because my videoing skills suck again thank you for watching enjoy the photos you

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Length: 32min 36sec (1956 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 13 2016