Making a Damascus CRYSKNIFE from DUNE! Part 1

get 10 off your first purchase and a free trial from today's sponsor at squarespace.com forward slash Forge welcome back today we're starting work on a cries knife from the movie Dune we've decided that we want to make ours out of Damascus steel of course and what we've done is we have prepared two billets of two different Alloys of Steel now I sometimes take for granted that you might know exactly what Damascus steel is it's a little refresher one steel here is just high carbon knife steel one steel here is high carbon knife steel that has two percent nickel 1080 and 15 and 20. and that's what allows us to see the pattern based in the contrast in how the nickel steel and the regular carbon steel etches I've made two billets this morning so we've got plenty enough steel for this we're going to get these heating up Forge weld them together we've got a little bit of an interesting pattern in mind today which I'm very excited to work on [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] what are you doing Jamie why'd you slam the door I just closed the door what do you mean you slammed the door we've got one long Square bar a second long Square bar there's lots of long Square bars and what do we usually do when we have a long Square bar of Damascus we usually twist it no you don't actually you normally have an octagonal butter twist yeah but carry on yeah anyway I want to do a multi-bar twist feather one bar Twisted clockwise one bar Twisted counterclockwise or anti-clockwise probably learn the because you're not twisting the same way and then just stack them no it doesn't work that way um that's a good question if for those watching along at home you grab two large bolts what you won't get is a Chevron if you put them next to each other the teeth all follow the same angle regardless of the orientation of the bolt so if you want that chevron zigzaggy pattern you have to twist half of the bars One Way half the bars the other way now being that we have about 100 feet of square bar to twist I would quite like a machine to be able to twist it for me now will has himself a very fancy twisting machine and it's got me a little Green With Envy but what we do have is this lovely large lathe and because my favorite thing is upsetting people about how it is that I use my machines I want to turn this into a hot metal twisting apparatus but for those people that are upset about the potential damage to the ways and how I'm going to destroy this machine we have one of these to clean up but what we need is a way to hold one end of the square bar here and a way to hold one end of the square bar there here on the tail stock of the lathe we get to pop out this this is a little Morse taper adapter now over here in our handy dandy drawer of Tricks we have a bunch more Morse taper adapters and in fact we have triple cuts no you're kidding me I have four of the same well in that case sacrilege is come on [Music] [Music] if this goes well we'll put them all in the fire and you know we'll make it look like we're being really efficient I've got one in the Forge right now I thought it would be prudent to do a little bit of a risk assessment try and like add up all of the ways that this could go wrong and I could be mutilated or killed May thy welds chip and chatter that's exactly right the welds could chip and chatter sending this flying in my face and knocking my face yeah but Jamie my face it might do you good so could smack me in the face chip a tooth uh or make Jamie look rugged we could end up with this getting jammed and then entirely explode the gearbox on the back of the lathe we could have me accidentally get caught into the hot metal where my hand gets wrapped around it as it spins turning it into spaghetti linguine what I would like to do is have a wire brush handy this Square bar when we twist it those Corners are going to be mushing up against one another I want as little scale in those Corners as possible so that it's nice and clean so this will be here tail stock is loose and wish me luck quick Interruption this episode has been sponsored by Squarespace website building platform that allows anybody no matter their technical expertise on a computer to be able to make themselves a beautiful website share their story and build their business on the internet one of the most recent things that I've done to one of my Squarespace websites is integrating to an approved third-party fulfillment platform so I could sell print on demand t-shirt nuts and hoodies with our little dog training club's logo on them and now because of their app if I want to change something add any new pictures or update in my description I no longer need to open my computer I can do it on the go with your site you can sell unlimited physical or digital products you can book clients using Squarespace scheduling sell things in person with Squarespace point of sale and you'll always have access to their award-winning 24 7 customer support so please go give it a try see how easy it is at squarespace.com forward slash Forge where you'll get a free trial and if you like it code Forge is going to get you 10 off your first purchase and that includes your domain purchase because it's an all-in-one platform thank you to Squarespace for sponsoring the video let's get back to it [Laughter] there we go on we go oh wowza okay well that is a wonderfully even twist it works a treat oh my goodness just need an even Heat not some twisting the lathe twists more towards the Chuck than it does the tail stock so if I'm smart when we start the future ones I'll do a little bit of twisting I'll take it out I'll flip it over and do a little bit of twisting in the same heat to see if that equalizes a twist foreign wow that one's now twisting more up there that worked well for controlling heaps [Applause] [Music] that is so much better controlling it with the air gun is the way to go [Music] yeah one heat again this is gonna save so much time in the future there's our pile of twists we now need to forge that into some smaller diameter Square bar so that we can clean it up and restack it in the future usually I would use kiss blocks but guess what though I own two sets of fabulous kiss blocks they're in America and they're for a different power hammer So Jamie is going to be the kiss block human kiss block human kiss block oh wow my plan to machine these so they're clean is tack weld them to this bar put the bar in the middle and then run the thing over with the Milling cutter [Applause] [Music] foreign but you've lost one of your things yep we've got a casualty so now we're only Milling four of the pieces at one go [Applause] man [Music] All These Bars have two sides milled up and because we've got opposing twists we've got a Chevron if we stack them up like this now my plan is to take these 13 inch long lengths we're going to cut them into thirds and we're going to stack them on top of each other so that we have a Billet with this Chevron going the whole way up it'll be an unconventional direction of multibar usually if we want to make a knife rough sketch of knife here's the orientation of the multibath but in this case it's going to be flipped 90 degrees and I don't know how it's going to work the multi bar is going to be going sideways and the plan is to feather it so a little bit more prep work is required cutting the bars get them all stacked up and ready to go in the Forge before dwelling foreign [Music] worlds I've ever done because everything about how this deal is stacked is designed to fail there's no chance this is gonna work Jamie I really should have recognized this was a ludicrous idea to make a world like this try and happen made our blade stick and well yeah it might well fall in half [Music] [Music] it might well actually be stuck and welded it's starting to get how we need it now I've been working it in this direction and now I need to work it in that direction a little bit foreign [Music] so after making this an even skinnier Billet we unfortunately still have some cracks to chase a bit of crack here a crack there a crack here and a little crack there this is just where the bars that made the stack haven't welded properly and so I'm gonna have to get in here with an angle grinder or the belt grinder try and grind through it so that we have that nice solid bit of metal that we're really after yeah we've ground through the cracks it is clean metal but let's see if we can get a little peek as to what it's going to look like when it's etched now that is pretty sick and then watch it whichever direction we take it there's going to be a lot of stretchage this is not going to look the same when this ends up being the proportions of a blade but it does give me hope but whatever it does look like is kind of cool so I can't wait to show the progress that we come up with for episode two of this cries knife for now please don't forget to check out today's sponsor which was Squarespace squarespace.com Forge and also a massive thank you is owed for all the support that we've had since the last couple of episodes we've had a ton of orders come into the Alex steel Co helping us clear out our inventory and I'm beyond grateful for that really means a lot we've got massive discounts on grinder bodies grinder accessories all that stuff I really hope that we can help you find a good deal and thank you for all of the lovely comments as well see on the next one bye foreign

Channel: Alec Steele

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Id: V7zT5Lxmb8k

Length: 14min 25sec (865 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 14 2023