Knife making - Integral Damascus knife with a guard

[Music] this knife and the sheath that comes with it will be available at my webshop link will be in the description hey guys thanks for tuning in in today's video we are gonna make an integral damascus knife with damascus guard and an iron wood handle i'm making the knife out of the lift over the masks from the previous damascus knife are made so if you're interested in seeing how damascus is made go over and see that video i hope you enjoyed the video [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] so [Music] um [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] i tried to make the radius from the blade to the bolster on my smallest contact wheel but it was still too big so i tried to drill the radius in with an end mill and it worked fantastic and it was super easy to get the radius symmetrical on both sides [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] and for the guard i'm going to use this explosion damascus pattern which you can see me make in this video right up here um i tried to do a mosaic pattern but it completely cracked as you can see i'm going to attempt to cut out the pieces that haven't cracked yet and see if i can forge a guard out of it [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] with [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] uh [Music] hmm [Music] this [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] ah [Music] [Music] when you're trying to drill in between two holes your drill bit will have a tendency to want to slip down in one of the already existing holes so a way to avoid that is to grind your drill bits as flat as possible so it almost looks like an end mill that way it will just drill right [Music] through [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] do [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] wow [Music] [Music] so [Music] then [Music] oh so [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] go [Music] so so [Music] after the buffing i'm putting the blade in the very strong solution of instant coffee to darken up the 1095 icon steel in the damascus [Music] [Music] um [Music] um [Music] wow [Music] so [Music] hey guys thanks digging through to the end this knife and the sheath that comes with it will be available at my webshop link will be in the description and see you next time [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] bye

Channel: Gentil Knives

Views: 373,363

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Id: SxuvCx8xnEQ

Length: 29min 32sec (1772 seconds)

Published: Sun May 17 2020