MAKING MANDALORIAN BESKAR STEEL!!!

ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the work trove it is great to have you here because in today's episode we're going to be making best card steal from the Mandalorian before we jump in there less quickly thank today's sponsor which is audible the online audiobook learning platform that I absolutely love I've been finishing up some great audio books lately and I hope that you go to audible.com forward slash forge or text forge to five hundred five hundred to get three months of audible for just six ninety-five a month which is half off the regular price Thank You audible for sponsoring this lets like the forge and jump on in [Music] so this is some best gas steel from the show the mandalorian and what is extremely exciting about this to me is this somebody that loves these crafts of blacksmithing and blade smithing these crafts that have been around for thousands of years as someone who loves these things to see that in popular culture more and more and more we're seeing Damascus things is awesome the new Rambo movies got Damascus in it and now this a really popular show is treating this as currency obviously best car steel Damascus steel they're not really trying to make it Damascus steel but it is Damascus steel that's a Damascus pattern and we're gonna recreate that piece of currency so making the Damascus is gonna be quite easy but it gives us the opportunity to have some fun and try and make a punch to stamp that symbol in that's where the real challenge is gonna be today [Music] so Alex started off with a 17 layer stack that means that each piece of this that we cut and restock onto itself is going to add 17 layers to our total count so we're going to go ahead cut these ends off those are usually not good steel and we'll reforge welded together we're shooting for somewhere around the hundred and seventy layer mark [Music] [Music] it's time now to weld up the ends weld on a handle and go ahead and Forge weld it in [Music] [Music] that's looking good will looks like you're ready to start drawing that out into its final little form yes but before I do that I'm gonna grind off that little nasty burr that we got during the hot cutting you have to take a grinder to it real quick and throw it back in the floor very nice what I'm gonna be doing I'm going to crack on with the punch that we need to make we want to stamp in the imperial mark to do that we have a piece of 4340 steel chucked up in the lathe I'm gonna turn it down and it's gonna be a mixture of lathe work and then carbide burr work for us to make a stamp and then we're also gonna harden it too so I'm going to turn this on I'm gonna turn down the outer diameter probably to about 7/8 of an inch or so 22 millimeters before working on some of the inside features of the staff at the beginning of the episode I said that how a greatest challenge would be the punch now little did I know it would not only be our greatest challenge of the day but it may be the greatest challenge of the week and that's saying something because this week has been a challenging week looking at this my simple brain thought up easy peasy what we're gonna do is we're gonna go ahead and make a punch we're gonna channel out a groove around the outside we'll drill a hole in the punch we'll then drill some other holes and connect them together but that would just be ridiculous because what we're trying to do is make a punch we're not trying to make the impression of the punch we try to make the tool that's gonna form that impression so it needs to be the inverse so just before I realize this I was getting set to go ahead and drill a hole right here because you know there's a hole right there instead the punch needs a peg in the middle the side of this punch cut in half needs to look a little bit like that with hexagons I've gained myself a grand and huge challenge we had a CNC milling machine the perfect tool for this kind of job we don't have a CNC but we have a BNC and let me tell you not quite as smart as a as a computer so this is gonna be a challenge now this is a whole lot more of a challenge than I thought and this is gonna require some like serious thinking which is a difficult one for me to do I'm gonna make this an exact diameter instead of just you know winging it making the thing you know easy peasy lemon squeezy this needs thought right now it is nine oh nine oh we're gonna make it nine hundred sour and damage is about twenty two point eight millimeters then from there I'm going to open up the computer drawer up this design and start plotting measurements okie dokie got it nine hundred thousand I don't have any five seat colors however that will hold this Oh actually that's the twenty eight millimeter call it this is an inch and a quarter I'm gonna flip this around in the lathe turn this down so it fits into that [Music] all righty there we go that 28 millimeter all righty everybody so we'd filmed a whole lot of stuff and it was dodge so I'm going to sum it all up here last time you saw me I was working away at the lathe and I went through all sorts of ideas as to how it is that I could make this thing work from kinda getting a 5c collet block putting it in the milling machine and then like roughing out all the stuff so I then went to fusion 360 and tried to design it all out and get some measurements so I'd work out where the plug in the measurements on the Dro on the mill and then we're all the way now to here where I've abandoned that hope and that dream to just take carbide buzz and free hand out the Empire logos negative in the stem it's way low attack then trying to get it down on the milling machine but I would have no chance of having any civic success there so lower tech it is I printed off the logo that I've drawn up we're gonna take some spray adhesive we're gonna stick it on I'm gonna start cutting by hand [Music] so here's what I've done I took our 350 or 400,000 rpm and uh uh and you see that it looks like a little screwdriver tip on it at that speed that's all you need to remove material this was a d'Alba I just ground a screwdriver tip on it and I've gone and made an outline of our shape with this tiny little thing what we're now gonna do is move to an actual carbide burr in our electronic handpiece and hogg out the rest of the material now we got our lines made [Music] all righty this is the progress I've made if this is how it's looking it looks like what we needed to look like which is important but what's not lost on me is how likely it is that it looks fine from this angle but as we stamp it into something it looks terrible so I have a little piece of play-doh and we're gonna give it the old smack well hey that looks pretty good that looks like just what we're after I'm pretty happy with that I think that'll do just fine there is one slight problem though that's gonna be an easy fix it's not quite in the middle of the piece I'm just gonna grind the edge of our steel and then we can take this to heat treat and get back to work on the best gas steel itself get this warming up trusty at the end of yesterday this is where we'll left off on the best car steel built he's got some patination going on in there by making some little divots and dents I'm now gonna come to the mill this beautiful Bridgeport mill and we're gonna hog off some material with a face mill there is about short of sawing and drilling there are a few things that it remove as much material as a nice two inch face mill with four indexable carbide inserts we're gonna hog so much stuff you'll think we're roasting a pig [Applause] [Applause] [Music] oh yes I think that just does the trick quite nicely very simple some nice lines going across it it's exactly what we're after this now gets to go back in the Forge so all that fine finishing work that I did on the grinder is for not not exactly did the fine finishing work even though it's about to get oxidized because I only need to heat it up one heat and by having it browned nicely it means when we're done stamping our mark in it it's gonna take a whole lot less grinding to get back to clean material what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna have the Forge be very fuel rich that means we're gonna put a lot of fuel in it so that the metal oxidizes less you see is that dragon's breath comes out that means we're pushing more and more propane in the Dragons bath is shorter it's a much more oxidizing flame okay so here's how it's gonna work I come out with the hot steel lay it down lay this on top and bring it down and we're just gonna have to kiss the surface I'm gonna leave this ready there hopefully we want to mess this up let's punch the entire way through there we go here we go oh no Judy okay it looks pretty awesome but it's deeper than I'd like so all that effort I didn't finishing it it is useless yeah I wasted a lot of time but it's gonna look great well we might as well go ahead and harden it right now because it's gonna need to get harder but the Damascus pattern to look as good as it wants to look okey doke this question since this is ornamental more than anything we're just going to do a very quick and rough temper we've done some tempering it's now time to go to the grinding room [Music] [Music] [Music] there's a fun little project I'm really pleased you guys came along it's really exciting to see but you know Damascus steel is making its way into the mainstream and what I was most thrilled about on this was making that little stamp that was exciting carving that out of that 4140 and having it work and leave a pretty cool impression we are gonna be giving this away so check out our Instagram for more information on that but as we end the video I'd like to thank today's sponsor which is audible audible is the audio book listening platform that I absolutely love they have the largest selection of audiobooks in the world and I love the personal development that I get from listening to audiobooks I'm able to listen to things that help me 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Channel: Alec Steele

Views: 1,751,125

Keywords: alec steele, alex steele, steel, alec, damascus, blacksmith, make, forge, anvil, mill, lathe, weld, tig, mig, engineering, blacksmithing, blade, bladesmithing, knife, knifemaking, sword, handmade, diy, craft, woodworking, forged in fire, axe, fabrication, art

Id: xcTv9jlh4zY

Length: 15min 18sec (918 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 11 2019