Making A TITANIUM KNIFE - Part 3

[Music] titanium knife part three tim the blacksmith welcome here it's fantastic to have you here because today we're jumping in with some handset well actually i don't really want to tell you we're just handstanding for two days because that is not really that interesting we're gonna get through the hand sani get that zirchronium guard on can't wait to show you the material i've selected for the handle somebody's cutting with the chains outside so i'm gonna end this intro right now let's go [Music] do [Music] so [Music] so i'm super happy to say that the 40 grit is finished and i'm going to be moving on to 80 grit here hoping this is going to go a lot faster now because everything's flat and true just taking out the scratched snow of the 40 grit and etc so let's get this going on [Music] so in the first video i was forging this knife and you know how i had that trouble sort of with the cracking stuff and i was grinding them out and reforging it and was pretty sure i had it taken care of and then on the last video i was hand sanding somebody see this huge line here i was kind of joking around something i'm just like this you saw me freaking out right because it's like three to four weeks of work so much material etc like just totally typical tim overreacting luckily it was just a super deep cut from fresh sandpaper in there and it completely sanded out so i'm very happy to say that there's no cracks in here huge relief so keep on going here this is looking good this is the uh one-handed sanding coffee experience move right there you gotta be super advanced in your sanding skills pull that off yeah level 10 right there [Music] so okay [Music] yeah let me come over there just give me a second okay mart and i are just gonna have a little meeting on the axes over here [Music] all right so march and i just did some talking about the axes we're tweaking the tooling getting everything dialed in nice break from the sandy and now i'm [Music] back [Music] so what an update i have for you i was always wetting the sandpaper because i thought that would be better for it and last longer and then i try to dry and the difference is incredible how much faster it goes when it's dry it cuts like crazy so that was a total like game changer so right now i'm just finishing up this side at 120 grit but i also want to try something else i was thinking about it when i made the titanium hammer i was surprised when i went to the buffer how much it was kind of taking out i guess some of this some roughness of the grinding grit still so i'm going to take this knife knife over to the buffer at 120 and just see what it does to this surface because maybe maybe that'll be a quick way to get it cleaned up so we're going to try that and see i figure i'm not going to lose anything by trying that and it could really help me out maybe so let's head over there and see how it looks i just don't want to drop the knife right now that would be bad [Music] [Music] so it definitely doesn't take it out at this point so 120 grit is not fine enough it does i think help me show that i have a couple spots that i need to work on just to get that 40 or 80 grit out a little bit better so i'm just gonna head back to the uh sanding over there and keep going on it that way [Music] so [Applause] [Music] so i'm just sanding 150 grit here it's coming along nice and i thought maybe i would just take this opportunity to tell you a little bit about myself and answer the number one question i get when i tell people i'm a blacksmith and that question is tim how did you get into blacksmithing or how did you start i was about 12 or 13 and i remember seeing a picture in a book of some chainmaille was like four links together and i thought oh that looks kind of cool that would be fun to try to make so then i did a little bit of research and ironically there wasn't a lot of information out there at that time youtube wasn't really a thing not that old but i'm old i guess so anyways i i was able to find a couple clothes hangers started cutting them up and wrapping them around sort of started messing around with that and figuring out the weave and how that worked and then that sort of progressed into wanting to do more of it so got upgraded to actually bought some wire and then over the summer i built a whole shirt of chain mail and so that was sort of the spark and then i was like wow wouldn't it be cool to try forging something so my dad helped me uh put together a brake forge found at the fan from a thrift store you know it was like 15 bucks to get the whole thing going and then started forging and then i was just like oh my goodness this is so cool this is awesome and so i was continuing on and doing that and then i quickly realized that my newfound hobby was expensive blacksmithing does take some money to do and my paper route fund was not enough to keep it going so i quickly decided that i better start selling some of this stuff that i'm working on so started to do craft shows started to do farmer's markets with the the trinket stuff just to make some revenue so i could keep blacksmithing right so i was doing that and then between my high school years um grade 10 to grade 11 i was actually able to land a custom job that lasted me the whole summer so i guess technically i was sort of self-employed if you will at that point and that was a great project it was a window grill for an art gallery actually here in abbotsford that's hometown and that was a super cool project it was bulrushes it had all these leaves and i had absolutely no power equipment right so i had to like flatten about 40 feet of 3 8 round bar with a hand hammer just flatten it out so definitely learn my hammer control starting at a young age because i dreamed of someday if ever i could have a power hammer that would be so cool and then between uh grade 11 and 12 i was also able to land another custom project and again these people who uh let me do this work for them were super trusting to let me take them on because i mean young guy with not very much skill anyways that it was a garden gate trellis that i did and that was a really great project looking back i still look at that as a very um sort of pivotal moment finished high school and then for the summer i landed a job working at uh a historical site as their blacksmith that's in fort langley close to where abbotsford is about 30 minutes away but i i learned pretty quick that i wasn't interested in uh historical blacksmithing being interpreted blacksmith and entertaining the public and there's a whole bunch of ironic things that i just said in there because of what i'm doing now but anyways what i i realized is that i really wanted to hone in on my craft sort of on closed doors if you will and then right after that i was actually contacted by a blacksmith paul rymer and he said hey tim would you be interested in coming on and doing apprenticeship with me for four years and i said okay well that sounds pretty cool too and so that was great to go start working for paul first thing paul had me do was he had just landed a contract for hotel to build the furniture for all the rooms so he's like here's the power hammer tim and here make about a thousand of these points and then we'll go from there so it was a really great lesson in repetition and just locking in basic skills paul also wanted me to become or get my welding ticket if you're not familiar how welding tickets work it's a c b a a is the i guess the highest level in a sense and so uh i was able to work for paul from eight to two and then from three to ten i was able to go to welding school so i was able to do both worlds at the same time and uh over the next two years getting my welding ticket i figured if i got a weld i might as well do a good job of it i was actually able to get my red seal too which is nice to have so that was going on and then later uh in the apprenticeship um paul was really established so he was doing some really big custom stuff for really big homes and also doing public art sculptures on quite a big spectrum so i was able to to get in on some of that stuff which was super good and then also paul would hand off me a lot of the smaller projects like sort of one day burners he got to get through them and i feel like that was actually a really good skill set for me to learn how to take something you've never done and do it really fast and get it done so anyways that was my apprenticeship in a nutshell and then in 2013 i came back to abbotsford hometown and set up shop here and now it's almost been seven years that's crazy doing uh architectural blacksmithing full time it's kind of interesting though i feel like in the last couple years i sort of have i don't want to say master or fully grasp the architectural world but what i feel like is that what people were asking me to do i kind of came like comfortable with to a degree and then i wish that i could continue to grow and push myself as a craftsman and so i feel like that's one of the things that was really a big drawing card for me to come to youtube and get excited about is i feel like as this grows and the project diversity that i get to do here for you and for myself like a titanium knife for example is really pushing me as a craftsman further and so that's what i'm most excited about here and um not that shameless plug i guess please subscribe to the channel but as the channel hopefully continues to grow the uh distance we can go with the projects i hope will become greater and so i can push myself harder and i think that would be really fun not only for myself but also for you the viewers so i'm hoping that's sort of where we go with youtube a little bit really looking forward to the the lifetime progression of honing in on a craft right that's blacksmithing is a hard skill to learn and looking forward to pushing myself on that so anyways i know that's a little bit of a ramble and a long answer to a short question but uh that's kind of where i'm coming from if you have any other questions you'd like to know feel free to let me know in the comments and maybe we'll get to answering those sometime for now i'm pretty much done my 150 grit on the blade which is fantastic so i think i'm going to hold off from going to the finer grits at this point and i'm going to grab that zirconium guard that martin machine to slot in i'm going to start fitting that up to make sure that all works out great and then we'll pick up hand sanding when we got things a little bit more locked in so let's take a look at that and go from there [Music] foreign [Music] mm-hmm [Music] so here we go we're going to uh attempt to try to drive the guard on i've filed it as close as i think i need to it's um between two to six thou give or take a little bit so i'm going to put this on just make sure i get this the right way yes so this slides on about that far and i'm very nervous about this because i don't know how the chronium is going to take so i'm going to go really slow really easy this is just a plate with a slot in it and then this tube is here like this so that it all sits hopefully square and i've got oh oh interesting oh you know what i don't think my tube is big enough okay so i'm going to try this pipe instead so that sits like this and then i'm going to drive this down and hopefully nothing bad happens i don't know how titanium and zirconium are going to match up all right let's give this a blow and see what happens here i just want to take a look at it before i keep going it's like super perfect i wish i wish it was home right there oh man do i take it off and file a little more that was sitting right there at the end a hundred percent happy right now i think i'm gonna take it off and i'm just gonna see if i can just file that a little bit more there's just no point in abusing it at this point am i the only one in the room that feels nervous about this all this is sketch ready oh yeah that's good okay ready yeah lighter oh okay you got everything i'm gonna give it all to you accept these guys beautiful that stress is it dents in the room okay let's try this again this i didn't get it yet i got to do it another time or at least okay try it again okay three times the charm okay let's try it again not quite sure who's the fault here but it's not sitting tight something isn't crispy enough got a over optimistic feeling about this right now dots are not connecting quite right i'm just going to check it again to see if there's a burn there do not like this okay let's try it again kind of sounds like famous last words around here see what she wrote oh oh baby that's like really close like just about a hundred percent [Music] definitely got better it's really close to being good i'm actually happy with that that's awesome that looks so good [Music] okay i'm super happy on how this has turned out and really looking forward to you now starting to shape this this is going to look completely different when we're done and getting onto the handle i think we're getting through most of the uh time consuming parts hope so at least anyways we're going to wrap it up there for today thanks so much for watching i would love it if you'd like this video grab your favorite hammer and smash that subscriber button we look forward to seeing you in the next video big relief oh welcome here everybody tim the blacks that face that face said stop that face had stopped him something seriously wrong the chainsaw who's cutting right now wrecked my intro that was good

Channel: Timothy Dyck

Views: 83,429

Keywords: titanium, knife, bladesmithing, blacksmithing, metalwork, forging

Id: NE-EY09bDtY

Length: 22min 7sec (1327 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 12 2020