Making A Knife From Screws

what's up guys welcome back to the shop today's video we're going to be making a knife out of screws here I have a whole bunch of old rusty screws that have been laying around for a while and here I'm just going to pour in a little bit of muratic acid that way they are clean and ready for Forge welding and afterwards we're going to neutralizing some water with baking soda and after I rinse it off with some water I'm going to pour in some aone that way I can clean off all remaining residues and with our materials prepared it's time to get to our canister I've already prepped the canister so it's already been spray painted and welded up together so it is ready for our contents to go inside if you don't know I spray all my cans with white spray paint and let it dry that way the contents on the inside do not stick to the can and it makes for a nice quick easy release it's important to tap the canisters periodic ly as you're putting your powder in that way the powder can sink all the way to the bottom and make sure you don't have any voids and with our canister fully welded it's time to go onto our forging I always Forge from top to bottom that way I get a nice solid Billet on the inside then I press on the sides I always start with the top first after I've returned it to a can shape I go in with my angle D and I press it evenly on all sides that that will we get a nice solid buet on the inside so here I missed a step on the recording and I actually did a part and didn't hit record after I had set up my camera and everything but I've already taken off the lid and that's why it has no lid on it that is why the bullets already starting to pop out and with the help of the press and a couple little squeezes I can fully slide it out that's why it's important to always prep your can ahead of time and use white spray paint that way you have nice releases like this now from here I'm just going to slowly work my Billet down and flatten it I'm looking to get my Billet down to probably about a quarter thickness that way I can stack it first sem my fortunately my Forge World was successful and as you can see I have very little cracking on the sides normally when I do something like ball bearings because they're are Chrome plated they don't really want to stick and there's always a lot of cracking but since this was screws and we prepped and cleaned everything properly it Forge welded together very nicely here I'm welding up my sanm I have a 1084 core and I'm going to start pressing it together one thing that gave me Troubles Down the Line as you'll see in the future uh my Billet wasn't exactly perfectly flat well my outside parts of my vet the outside layers weren't perfectly flat whenever I did them so it kind of made the core move around a little bit that was my fault I should have taken an extra step and actually taken it to the surface grinder and really flatten those pieces out but a way that I learned is by making mistakes and then try not to repeat them which I still repeat them regardless but that's besides the point now I know for future reference to always make sure to get those pieces surface ground if necessary here are my quarter in Kiss blocks and I'm just working the build it down I'm using my less aggressive dies and I'm forging in the tip with the Press why am I forging it with the Press instead of a hammer one because I have a press and I just decided to use it and two and mainly two because I've actually finally got the upgrades I needed for my press and because of those upgrades it's not teetering side to side so the best way to test that out was to use the Press like that when I'm pressing down on something thin it would normally try to push one way or push another and so I was very eager to test it out so now the Press is back up and running 100% and hopefully we get some cool builds in the near future I'm already working on one right now and hopefully it comes out good and if you guys see it soon that means it came out good and if you don't that means it was crap and I'll be making some D in the near future for my press as well now that I have that part fixed that way I can do things like like pressing in my tangs a lot easier than this one thing a lot of people don't take into account because um they don't make YouTube videos I guess uh one of the things I'm looking forward to doing is tooling up as much as possible that way I can make my videos faster that way I can be more consistent with my videos I want to make these cool builds but at the same time I also want to you know get videos out at a reasonable amount of time and the only way to properly do that is to do things like pressing in tangs and pressing in this and that that way I can save one my shoulder and my arm and to save on time because that takes a lot of time out of the build and overall just tooling up and using more tools versus just trying to hand Forge everything so for all my hand forgers out there that are mad that I don't hand Forge everything please take into account that making a highquality looking knife out of some weird crap that I decide to make it out of and getting it out and editing the video and doing all that crap all within a week maybe a week and a half is actually a pain and it's a lot of work so bear with me part of the way into the forging I decided to make this a full tank knife because of all the extra material I had so here I'm just cutting off the end and I'm gonna grind in the rest of my knife and the rest of my profile here I have my handy dandy push stick and I'm just slowly profiling the knife up to roughly where I have it drawn my lines are not definitive I'm just going to slowly work it in and then test it out with my hand see if I like the feel for it and most of this I'm just winging I don't have a exact templ that I'm using for these things things most of it I'm just you know doing it off of a whim cuz I make basically a knife a week I mean you can only make so many different styles of knives before you run out of ways to make a pointy sharp piece of metal so I like to play with it this knife is more of a just a big knife a big chef's knife with a drop point in it and this one I actually am keeping for myself so I can cut my watermelons because I like to eat watermelon and I need a big old knife I can have a nice clean cut so that's what I'm going to use this guy for and it's about 11 and 1 12 in long so perfect for slicing a watermelon here I'm taking it to the surface grinder that way I can get a nice clean even grind on it get all the scale and bumps out of it so that I can heat treat it soon on a knife like this I would like to be able to heat treat it in my oven but because I am stupid I bought a oven that is only for like small knives because I read the outside dimensions as inside dimensions and because I did that uh most of my knives don't fit in my oven so if an oven company wants to sponsor me or give me something for free I I would say yes in a heartbeat and if not well you guys should like comment and subscribe specifically subscribe and View and watch my whole videos that way I can make some money and I can stop doing this in the Forge or don't it's not like 90% of you guys watch and don't subscribe I'm just saying the analytics tell me so now with my knife quenched I'm going to start to clean it up on the 2x 72 after a little while of cleaning it up on the 2 x72 I gave up and decided to use the surface grinder with a finer belt so here I'm using a 120 grid belt and I'm just cleaning it up all right so I have it down to 120 grid I used to surface grinder because I felt like doing it by hand was just going to take way too long so it's pretty rough but it's looking okay next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to mark my center line for grinding in my bevels but before I do that I'm actually going to do a test Edge to see where the actual Center Line is because while it's good throughout the majority of the knife I know that towards the tip it actually moves over to one side so to be 100% sure in case I do have to move it over I can move it with my carbide pen hammer and I can adjust it however I need before I do my grind so I'm going to put it in the edge first and then I'll move it around as needed but so far so good all right so I have my Edge marked out with a marker and as you can see it's more to one side than the other especially towards the end of the knife right here where I got my transition so what I'm going to do is I'm going to take it back to the surface G I'm going to take more material off of this side to hopefully even it even it out right here towards the end I have the edge that goes off to one side I'm going to run it like that hopefully there's no issues and we get nice uh Sharp Edge on it if not I can always hit it a little bit towards the edge we'll see once I once I get the majority of the steel off if I need to move the edge to the side or not on on the tip but for everything else I do need to take off some material off the side so that's what I'm going to do and hopefully we get it a lot closer than what it is right now but the pattern is looking pretty cool you can definitely see the screws in there you see this little line from the threads on the screws oh you can really see that one real good see that screw in there that's dope that's really cool you see those screws in there going all kinds of directions overall it's pretty cool looking knife lots of M [Music] [Music] so I got a pretty aggressive warp as I was grinding it so I'm using a carbide pen to straighten out the knife if you don't have a carbide pen I do have a link in the description to where you can order a carbide ball and then you just buy yourself a hammer and you can just make it yourself it's a lot cheaper and I definitely recommend making yourself I made this guy for like 15 bucks versus buying it for like 85 all night so I definitely recommend that if you're interested I have a link on Amazon where you can buy that car by pinball all right so I got this guy all marked up from the carbide pin and I strained it out which is pretty straight then I decided to hit it here so I can force this tip to turn that way so now my tip is slightly out of line which is what I need since my Edge is on the edge right here by pushing it and twisting it up now I can have this be the center and take off all this extra material on the side and I should have Edge everywhere hopefully that works out if now I'm going to have to grind this Edge like this which is the last thing I want to do I don't want to do that so hopefully this works out so here I'm just going to start grinding in the bevels on my knife being careful not to overheat my knife in the process and as you can tell by the W knife I make sure to always keep cooling it down in the water I have in the bucket underneath my 2x 72 and here I have one of my bevels ground and to save you the boredom we're going straight to the hand sanding which took me about 3 or 4 hours to do to get it up to 800 GR for my handle of choice I decided to use some black paper my card out with an orange liner I really like to use the orange liner because I like the color orange and it pops out really nicely with that black contrast so that was my choice and even though it looks kind of dumb here that I'm using a black marker to mark on a black background um it's not that dumb I can see it you can see it but I didn't have any other markers that I could use I normally have some gry RS around but I lose everything so I couldn't find them so black it was and here I'm using the port van to make quick work of cutting this material [Music] up it's important to be very careful when you're cutting up the liner on the for van because this thing cuts through it like butter and it easy to you know underestimate how much force you need to use cuz this thing goes through it so quick so definitely pay attention to that and here I'm just going to drill in my pin holes and here I'm going back to the P van and I'm cleaning up my edges since this is going to be a full tank knife I have to prep the front of my handle before I glue it up that way I don't damage my knife in the process of fitting up my handle and now I'm going to start mixing up my resin I'm using five minute epoxy to glue my knife up together and I'm being extremely generous with it I always like to make a lot that way uh I don't run into problems so having to make some more it is 5 minute epoxy so it does dry pretty quickly and because of all the holes in my knife I always make sure to pour in enough resin to cover up all the holes that's going to really strengthen the bond on my handle though I must admit it is a very messy process which is exactly why I always wear gloves when I'm doing this with the handle all nice and dry I go to the pter band and cut the excess off my pins I like to use the pter band to do this instead of just grinding them flat because whenever you grind it you introduce a lot of heat and that brass hold in that heat and it can weaken the bond of the epoxy that's holding the whole handle together so here I'm just profiling with a worn 36 grid belt making quick work of all the rough edges and now moving to a 120 GD to polish those edges up and get all the scratch marks out and now for the moment of trth time to see what it looks like if you guys like what you see be sure to subscribe and that way I can afford more bottles of water that I can put at the bottom of my etching pipe that way the knife doesn't fall all the way to the bottom and then I can't reach it pretty cool idea right it took me about an hour to figure that out and so now we move on to the coffee and the reveal on this knife is sick look at all that material I ground off and after sharpening this knife is wicked sharp it passes the paper test with flying colors and here is a final look at the finished product I really like the way the pattern turned out on this side you can clearly see all the screws that are in there and the fine threads as well as my logo press it in there looks pretty nice and it has a lot of movement and I always like the look of the graininess of the steel powder but on the other side because my sides were un even I actually ground off a lot of this side's uh outer layer but overall it still looks pretty cool and I like that look of the jet black core so I'm pretty happy with it overall looks pretty cool and the orange liner pops really nicely I'm very happy with that choice I'm starting to think I need to order some orange G10 pin so I can start using that with my orange liners that would look a lot better overall I'm very happy with the end result and it's a very very cool knife I hope you guys enjoyed it and wait till the very end of the video and I got a very special treat for you guys so just hold on a few more seconds and I got a treat for you guys for the real ogs that watch the videos all the way through comment down below and tell me what you see at the end of the the video and I'll go hard your comment and reply to it even though I reply to basically every comment but you'll know you're one of the ones that made it to the end and that's what matters here is an adorable rabbit I saw my backyard and recorded for your guys is viewing pleasure thank you very much for subscribing and for watching I appreciate you guys and I will catch you guys in the next one

Channel: JP's Bladeworks

Views: 242,758

Keywords: knives, knife making, how to make a knife, making a knife from screws, scrap knife, scrap damascus, canister damascus, jps bladeworks, jpsbladeworks, forging, fire

Id: MOTVNJsnoZI

Length: 18min 54sec (1134 seconds)

Published: Sun May 26 2024