Making A Shotgun Knife

in this video I'm making a buoy inspired by the Browning B25 trap shotgun [Music] so I'm stacking my steel and I'm going to enclose this so that there's no Oxygen involved in the forged welding process with all these little pieces being forged well together it makes a really clean weld [Music] [Music] got to forge lid up got the belt welded up and we got some heat I press real gentle on my first welds on a tall belt like this I make sure that my core is heated up really good so I just do mild presses now I'm removing some of the sheet metal I had welded to the outside of the Billet and exposing the high carbon steel and getting rid of the mild steel now I got a really good Forge weld on it I'll draw the bars out start to make my W's for my Mosaic that's still the same bar I haven't cut it yet [Music] and I got my Billet cut up and I'm getting ready to stack it to start forming more of that same pattern that I'm looking for there's no air in that Forge welder that has no atmosphere exposure it's all done without any Oxygen so it makes a really super clean weld for the Damascus [Music] same thing here again I get a really good and hot and soak that core because you can get cold shuts in the center Sometimes using these big billets and after you do that once or twice you pretty much won't do it anymore [Music] and I'm re-squaring trying to manipulate the pattern some more foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign bars reconfigure where the bars go to keep it in flow with the pattern that I'm looking for and again I did a zero atmosphere welding on the Billet welded all the seams all the way around [Music] foreign [Music] soak at the proper Forge welding temperature 2250 2300 degrees just thereabouts anything over 2200 is good and let it soak and saturate all the way through to the Core [Music] so I'm getting ready to cut mosaic tile so in order to prep it for that I'm gonna put it here in in the vermiculite after it's up to maybe 16 1700 degrees 1600 and let it slow down Ultra slow in the vermiculite that makes it about as soft as you can get it without annealing and that's what the bar looks like on the end slice the end cut that's the pattern we want so that's why we're going to Mosaic this Billet is to put that pattern on the other side of the Billet just by laying those tile down and Welding them together this is one of those times when you want to get your Billet pretty clean even the sides are pretty clean definitely the top and bottom it may have decarb on it a little bit somewhere minute probably not it's probably all it's all good steel but it all gets ground down very smooth and clean at this point because when you go to weld your mosaic tile together you want everything going in your direction you want all the odds in your favor so you do a lot of prep work and clean up to make sure that your welds are nearly Flawless you see that belt looks pretty clean right there it's like that on all four sides the Billet is large enough for probably another knife usually I make a big large enough Billet to make one or two knives out of because my knives haven't gotten as big as some of the cows have so I can I can do that so I just cut off slices that I need and when I want to come into the belt later for another build or maybe accessories components off of that from guards or pommels or whatever I want to build out of it and maybe another knife I got some billets that know where they're ready to go so I just cut me off a six slices here I think I got I want to weld those together everything's marked and labeled and I'm going to clean them up again get everything very very very flat I weld the sides up a hundred percent because it keeps uh it helps keep from tearing it's hard to think of Steel that it could tear a bit on the right circumstances it uh it likes to tear when it's provoked [Music] [Music] nice good heat very hot all the way to the core on that first initial weld very slow nice even methodical pushes [Music] I got the knife cleaned up and I got it shaped and I put it in the heat treat oven to be normalized it went through a normalizing cycle 1600 1500 1400 with uh maybe an hour or two in between to cool down properly to relax the steel [Music] foreign [Music] got my rough shape the rough profile got a couple scribe lines on there I'm gonna just do a little bit of grinding on the blade Edge about halfway up the blade is what I traditionally do just to get rid of some that mild steel or off the get-go and make my heat treat I make knife a little bit thinner for a good really good heat treat [Music] all right she's up to 15 25 and I'm going to quench her into Parks 50 which is heated up to about 110 degrees and that will harden the steel came out great you can see the pattern through the mill scale from the heat tree process [Music] flatten out the knife on the surface grinder just it's just nice to have a nice flat Foundation now the spine is straight for quite a ways unlike a lot of knives you don't usually have your spine that straight that long but this is an exception because of the the ribs that I'm going to grind into the spine making it super flat across the spine is a bonus [Music] I bought some End Mill bits I thought I'm some I bought some cheap uh carbide and Mill bits I thought I might Mill this in on the mill that didn't work I broke several bits and I was near 20 th of the way through this project so I had to just totally set everything down step back from it and rethink it and I didn't want to do the Dremel because of the run out but Kyle's Dremel has hardly any run out it's a really nice tool I think they're an inch and a quarter wheel which car Stone on there with a certain thickness and it's got a square Edge on it also it's not a radiused edge it's a square Edge so I had three ribs I had to cut so I used a fresh brand new stone for each slot for each side so I used a three on one side and three brand new stones on the other side and they barely got used but my my ribs came out like they were milled they they looked identical the rib barrel came out exceptionally clean I was I was so excited about that foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] I got it roughed in I'm getting ready to performance test the knife they all get chopped on kitchen calorie Hunters boys everything gets performance tested brass Rod uh two by four knots [Music] I got my guard ready to be slid up on there now I cut that uh I cut that relief at the ricasso Inn with a carbide Mill that is the brake release mechanism which is the upper part of the Guard it's one piece it's one independent piece from the rest of the knife so it got stacked on there first [Music] okay fitting the front guard was a nice way to start this build because it was fairly easy now I am getting ready to uh fit the trigger guard the trigger is one piece it's forged in the same piece it splits off I started with a piece of mild steel I was just gonna make a template and see how it worked out and I didn't expect for it to actually go as well as it did this thing is forged I don't know over 90 percent to shape which is something I normally don't do but it was happening so I just went with it and I kept working and kept working it and it came out really good [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] the trigger off of the trigard [Music] foreign Jewelers uh saw blades I have a jeweler saw but I run bigger blades on it but I thought I want that to be like like it just grew in there so I got the one of the thinnest blades I thought I could handle and I cut that out with that Jeweler saw when I got down to the finished I wanted a super tight uh crevice in there I want almost looked like it was just cracked off of it just it was super tight not even a radius it's got a real mild race but it's only I don't know it's not over ten thousands for sure it's less than that it looks like it just was peeled right out of it this is one of the most complicated pieces I've ever made for a knife in my life in my entire three-year career [Music] foreign [Music] so I got it roughed in and I'm getting ready to do the spacer behind it this is a piece of mild steel it's pinned in also foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] guard is kind of thick but I wanted to dome that and it also has to inlay into the handle [Music] doing the guard and getting it to set into the handle took it took two weeks cut fit cut fit cut fit the handles roughed in the guard is roughed in um I've got to take the profile down a little bit on the handle obviously because that metal doesn't show up at all but uh you'll see it's all going to work out I left myself a little bit of room everywhere without too much too much room you know it just didn't make it a half inch too big or you know an inch I just left it just enough that that's what I needed and remember this is this trigger yard is was supposed to be a test piece but it flowed out so well that I went ahead and and decided to assemble it onto the knife I was so excited at this point so now for me once I got that trigger guard laid in the rest of us just building a knife which I do every day so the rest of them went really well uh the Pummel Pummel nut went really fast and the spacer and the pommel nut that's just normal everyday knife making stuff I think I was going to make this a Pummel nut I don't remember oh yeah I was gonna make out a palm nut and I actually didn't do that I ended up using a piece of a mild steel and gun glued it can't remember why now I end up using mild steel and like we're dealing a lot of the other boys I don't know remember why but maybe it was because the way it was stacking out just the Aesthetics of it the looks the copper alloy wasn't gonna look proper the hot gun balloon was going to look better on it foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] yep now we're just in the regular knife making mode here grinding on the handle working my way down slowly I've got reference marks on there I'm sanding too trying to make it look symmetrical and smooth getting ready to do some relief work on the handle to replicate the uh the handle on the Browning B25 2B grinding B25 B2 Browning B25 B2 there's a lot of material to be moved but I just want to outline it with some delicate files to get a nice soft start once I get my outlines done I can get a little more aggressive with it just so I can ease my way into it and get get a feel for it because this kind of relief work I'm I don't do all the time on knives so uh when I do it I've gotta just kind of ease into it and uh settle into it and let it reveal let it reveal itself as I as I work into my layout lines oh foreign [Music] [Music] I'm doing a border around where the stippling is going to be I opted out not to do the check ring so I uh I did a border and I'm going with the rotary tool and stipple it with a rotary tool I think I spent probably three days I know it was a two full days just on the stippling I'd go back around on my border and gently refreshing it once I got started you got to be really careful not to make it look uh too uniform it's got to look random all the way through from where you start to where you finish and there's some really soft spots this is all stabilized wood but there's still some soft spots in it and the rotary tool just wanted to drop down and I had to be real careful to float over those spots I started recognizing them right away just by color where they were and some of the hard spots were really hard I actually had to go back over and re-steppel some of them choice [Music] [Music] knife maker plus enrollment has been closed for four months and we just opened it back up so if you want to learn how to make a drop point ladder pattern Damascus hunting knife then you're in luck what I'll be teaching you with during this hunting knife build is everything from start to finish we're going to start out by making a clean and elegant ladder pattern Damascus blade once that's done we'll move on to fitting a guard getting that perfect nice tight fit between the guard and the blade and then the wood handle I'll be taking this base Hunter model and adding some nice upgrades one of the upgrades is the latter pattern Damascus but on the Guard we're going to add some beautiful damascine damascine is where you do gold wire overlay on the outside of the metal this is a brand new technique to me that I've been practicing for many days and I can't wait to share it with you I think it's going to be beautiful on this knife and to finish it all off on the handle we're going to add some texturing that'll add a nice look and some extra grip for your hand too at base this is going to be your basic drop point hunting knife but with those upgrades we're adding you can still use it out in the field but it'll also be a beautiful piece that a collector might like to have in its collection one of my biggest hopes through this knife maker plus project is that you'll be able to learn the skills and techniques you need to level up your knife making so join me on this knife maker plus project and over the next couple of months I'll show you everything from the start of the build all the way to the final sharpening and assembly of this hunting knife enrollment is closing soon for this project don't miss out on it the link is in the description I'll get this guard down to probably about a probably a 320 or 600 grit flat then I'll start doming it once I get the profile exactly where I want it I'll actually go back in with a file and uh course sandpaper scuff it all up again but at least I had I had my profile exactly where I want it it won't get touched right in the center because everything's domed on the trigger guard in both directions except for the trigger it's just domed in One Direction I got a scribe line on that where it sets into the wood so I'm getting ready to put a dome on the turkey guard where it sets in there's no less than two weeks just on the trigger yard between the forging and finish work shaping it's it's a good easy two weeks there's a scribe line on the side you can't see it but I'm taking it to a scribe line there's I didn't grind or file on anything without uh having a scribe line until I got to my finished uh grits you see that Dome starting to take shape this is a safety file there's a safe Edge on one side of it and what that does is it makes it Ultra sharp so you get a really tight v-notch it's almost to nothing it's it's got to be just at one thousands or two thousandths at the most on the safety edge so when you look at with the naked eye it's it looks like it just grew right out of it [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you I came up with a pattern on a test piece I don't think I showed it here but I like the pattern that I had on my test piece so then I did a layout on my my actual piece you see all the layout lines on there this is my custom copper alloy that I make this came from a range brass spent range brass and uh copper about a six to one ratio six copper and one brass I kept mixing it until I got a bronze look it's pretty easy to cast it we got some equipment and it's it's uh that's not difficult to make it it's kind of difficult to find silicon bronze it's kind of expensive I only had a bunch of copper and wrestling around so it makes a really cool story also using the range brass to build a a knife that's uh designed off of a shotgun just kind of poetic justice [Music] foreign [Music] engraving tool I cut a Groove so they were down they're relieved down in and I domed them and distressed it with some mother used brass black and then a sunshine cloth over it gently to expose some of the [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] the finished reveal the blade is done foreign [Music] look you see that the clip where it ends right there at the spine of the knife is the same distance from that uh the ribbed notch to the sharpen clip as it is from the last notch in the ribbing to the guard it's symmetrically laid out and that was a pretty important here on making this look nice and clean cleaning up my parts getting ready to hot gun blue them in Brownell hot gun bling salts a lot of prep work it was raining that day of a master blade Smith Kyle's holding the umbrella for me I put these in the balloon salts these were polished before they were put in [Music] foreign I thought the distressed copper alloy would go really well with the the wood handle and there is so much clean beautiful bright uh hot gun blowing on here I thought that the patina would help offset that a little bit and it sure did I'll definitely consider that again the handle has a very very mild radius on it or the trig guard fits into it because if it's a tight sharp edge the wood can chip if it's disassembled or during assembly and disassembly or even if I have to service it later is a possibility it could break they chip The Edge so Museum fit handle it's got great balance and it feels really good in the hand it was a fun build and I'm very blessed to be able to build something like this for a client when my customer saw the knife he was just simply overwhelmed with all the detail on it and his dad just was very excited to have it and it was nearly speech when his son presented to him for his birthday it doesn't get better than that that's good stuff thanks for watching May the forge be with you bye bye learn how to make this hunting knife from start to finish only on knife maker plus

Channel: Kyle Royer

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Length: 31min 39sec (1899 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 27 2023