Making a small EDC fixed blade (as fast as possible)

[Music] hey guys jeremy here with simple life in yesterday's vlog i'd mentioned that i wanted to have a knife build video coming out today and you know i was under a really good start things were really going well i was making this uh barbecue slash meat slicing knife for myself this is actually out of nitro v which is a new type of stainless it's kind of a derivative of aeb-l razor steel and i was really excited about this and things were coming good and then out of the heat treat bam we had this huge warp in the blade so that obviously put a major dent and i was kind of like what on earth am i gonna do i've got no content to come out and i really wanted to have a knife build video by this point in time it was late in the afternoon and i thought you know what why don't i just see how quickly i could possibly make a knife this is me trying to make a knife as fast as i possibly can so i could have this video ready to release so i figured you know what let's try drawing a knife something i've never done and uh kind of picked out a chunk of steel that i could use something that i had laying around and i just drew a bunch of designs but nothing was feeling right nothing was i don't know it just was not working out for me so we uh refer to our big book of knife designs previous knives that i had designed but never yet made and that looks like that might be a winner right there it'll fit on the stock that we're using so i think we're just going to go for it i just kind of trace it onto another piece of paper here cut that out with my little exacto knife and then we're going to glue that onto some 01 tool steel 426 i thought this build would only take me like an hour to i don't know why anyways we just chop this sucker out get as much done as we can on the portable bandsaw and then we'll profile on the belt grinder uh this is kind of actually the blade shape reminds me of the jump knife that i had made previously if you've seen that video it's a pretty cool little little blade shape and uh yeah i think this can be a cute little one this is one of those knives i was like why on earth hadn't i made this before then we'll jump onto my homemade horizontal belt grinder and finish some of the inside radiuses and shaping up that handle getting it all nice and comfortable and get everything cleaned up all right now we're just going to put a little sharpie on the edge and we're going to mark our center line our grind line so we know we've got a visual reference to grind too and for that i just used a knife maker scribe that i'd made i've got a video on that somewhere in the old video library on this channel anyways the next step we will drill the holes for our pins and i'm going to use quarter inch black phenolic pins on this knife so drill a couple pilot holes and then finish it off with the quarter inch and in the interest of saving time i decided you know what i'm just going to use a grinding jig that i've made previously this is a super simple way to make a grinding jig it's basically i think it was like a piece of one inch by three quarter inch bar stock and i machined an angle in my milling machine and that's that's very specific angle for the last stitch neck or knives that i have actually you know what mike from ecom knives had a really interesting uh video i'll put a link to that in the description below uh he talks about you know using jigs and not using jigs and somehow people think it's this big i don't know people get all hung up on it you know what sometimes jigs are awesome free hand grinding is awesome but you know for a lot of those little last-ditch necker knives it takes so long uh to freehand grind uh that i find it just so much easier if i use a little jig like this i get much more consistent results i'll finish it off by hand but i like to get the initial bevels ground in pre-heat treat with a jig i still do freehand for all my holocrines but with results like that why wouldn't you use a jig and again trying to speed this build up as fast i could rather than using my electric furnace my digital knife makers kiln i thought you know what i'm gonna slap this sucker in the forge because it heats it up so fast and then we give it the old quench slow motion quench it always looks better indeed it skates a file the file does not cut into it so it's a really quick simple way to tell whether your knife has been hardened and then we're going to temper it i'm doing two temper cycles 400 degrees for 25 minutes each cycle and i let it air cool in between each temper cycle all right the scales for this one i'm going to use a couple layers of g10 so i've got this blue g10 which i believe is i think this is only eighth of an inch thick and so i'm just kind of marking out my pieces there and we'll cut those out and then i'll also cut out a couple of g10 liners i'm going to do white and black essentially i'm just going to make them the exact same size there and then cut those out and i'll rough up all the surface with some really aggressive sandpaper to help the epoxy stick when we go glue these all together clean everything up with lacquer thinner make sure you get all the dust off and get those surface prepped lay down some tape mix up some epoxy and then we'll glue these things i just use a little craft paper there it's kind of like a wax paper sort of and it's going to make a little sandwich i like that closed on the one side because it keeps the edges nice and level and then i'll just put this in my vise and let that epoxy harden once that's done we'll clean them up that little black liner kind of got out on me a little bit but it was enough that i could salvage it so that's cool try and make these into uh square usable stock and then i take 120 grit sandpaper and i just get rid of any epoxy that was left on the white side of the scales that's the side that's going to be glued to the knife so i want to make sure we get that nice and flat and true i'm just going to lay out roughly where the knife is going to go then i'll mark out the length of the pin so i can get those cut down and we're on to drilling the pin holes keeping pins in there to make sure we have everything located properly as we continue drilling the new holes and then i cut out any excess material my portable band saw and we'll shape the end of the handle there make sure you get that all nicely done up because that part you cannot adjust once it's glued on and then i'm fortifying this one and i've actually never done this where i'll actually grind that chamfer right to the very edge of the white liner i thought it'd be kind of nice because that way you can actually see both liners when you're looking at the blade from the side uh none of them are hidden so it actually turned out pretty good just just kind of took this process slow it's a little bit nerve-wracking but it kind of turned out and then we'll just take some sandpaper and kind of clean that up get a really nice finish because again that part is pretty much unworkable once we have once we have the whole knife glued together wipe everything down with lacquer thinner again and then we will glue these scales on using a devcon five-minute epoxy everything here was a five-minute epoxy because i wanted to get this knife built as fast as i possibly could clamp that in there and i let this dry for about 20 minutes probably i wouldn't recommend that i i don't recommend trying to build a knife as fast as you can either this was like a mondo rush job but hey you know what we gotta get a video out and uh sometimes you just do what you gotta do i'm gonna take the old belt grinder and actually use my old ceramic 36 grit belts once they're kind of done their life with steels i find they actually work really good for shaping the handle materials and synthetics and stuff like that and now we're going to finish shaping up these uh the inside parts and again you know what i had these camera mounts made for you know getting good shots of what i was doing but i was in such a rush i just i just couldn't use those for this video so i apologize for the a lackluster uncinematic build quality here but when you're under time crunch and all you want is a video done that's kind of what happens doing a little bit of a coke bottle profile on the handles here so i'll use my 10 inch contact wheel for that then once i got it fairly close i'll use a scalloped belt and kind of this little arm that i made for my grinder just gives me a long flat section slack section of the belt that i can grind on and we really didn't do any hand profiling on this handle at all everything was with the machines so that we could be fast and speedy and then we'll kind of buff it polish up those scales i think i took everything here to about 400 grit so i didn't go super crazy uh in the interest of time obviously but i give that a buff clean it all up and we're gonna call that good right there 9 43 in the evening so let's add roughly 5 hours and 15 minutes to build this little knife well i'm pretty happy with the way this turned out i honestly i really thought i would have it done quicker than 5 hours and 15 minutes but i guess when you look at it if i had started this knife at like seven o'clock in the morning it would have been done you know right after lunchtime so uh there's also a little time in there whereas uh talking with our electrician in the evening and then obviously you waste time with your not waste but time is lost in your temper cycles and cooling down stuff like that so oh no there's a fun little build well i hope you enjoyed watching this guys again you know what this was not a really high production value and i really was just trying to rush through the making of this knife so on that part i apologize but i really really wanted to get a video done so you know what if you like this video guys go ahead and give it a thumbs up be sure to subscribe to the channel and thank you so much for watching cheers you

Channel: Simple Little Life

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Length: 10min 4sec (604 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 19 2017