My Dad Tries To Make A Kitchen Knife

in this video I'm making a beautiful Mosaic Damascus kitchen utility knife I'm making a large Billet and I'll get several knives out of this particular Billet it looks like a mess but we're going to sort everything out and everything goes in its place [Music] [Music] foreign sheet metal so I can wrap my Billet up and have an oxygen-free atmosphere foreign [Applause] [Applause] foreign I'm going to weld it all the way around real quick and weld the ends of the build up solid I'm going to minimalize these welds right here because they're going to get compressed first this direction I don't want to see how far I can push that into the Billet so I'm just going to knock some of the top of the build off [Music] foreign [Music] I love doing the time lapse on heating the forge up it's just crazy cool looking that first press is is fun to watch too watch that Mill scale come off that fresh Billet I set my welds several times on the Billet just to make sure that the temperature has been raised all the way to the core I went before I first started doing Damascus I had some challenges getting in a hurry and my I didn't have my heat up on the core and a delamination that just takes the fun out of it so I give it plenty of chance to heat up and several times in the dies trying to get the weld to set then you're pretty much good to go after that thank you [Music] oh it's looking great I'm gonna cut this build up into several pieces and restack foreign [Music] I'm not going to put sheet metal around this one because there's only one two three welds so I'll just wallet up with the Mig all the way around put my handle back on there and back into Forge then everybody gets old watching that heat up that's crazy cool that first press is awesome that Mill scale dropping off everywhere very nice I'm getting ready to press it the other direction now so I got to take off those welds on the side so I don't push them deep into my Billet they're probably going to retain some extra carbon from the high carbon around them it wouldn't be in the world if they were in there but it would be for me just because the Aesthetics the looks will be uh horrendous to see that in your finished Damascus Billet and your blade because it definitely etches at a different color all right we're gonna re-score this little piglet X and WS [Music] now we got that drawn back out and we'll clean it back up cut into the end take a look at it I think I got the yard on fire somewhere too there's a garden hose right behind me it gets used from time to time when we're out here in the middle of summer grinding outside I'm glad we set that Vice up outside it's a lot cleaner in the shop and a lot more air movement outside a lot cleaner environment outside to build a grind like that it's a blessing to have that there crazy cool and we're going to cut this up into four pieces and then we're going to four way it we're not just going to stack it we're going to put them side by side as well everything's marked before I cut so I keep track of it every time this is not a mystery on how they go or what they're doing or where I'm gonna go with it it's planned out it's uh it's just not by chance it makes a little more difficult for me as especially as a newer maker because it's still mechanical a lot of times building billets like this uh but I got to keep track and I got to stay on on task otherwise I'll get lost in and I'll get something inverted and the pattern won't come out exactly the way I I need it to because I'm going for a particular pattern this time and more time lapse on heating up a third time I still love watching it we're gonna flatten this several times and we're gonna get to get the squaring dies out the last making sure it's nice and square I almost done that off camera now we're gonna hook up Kevin's little brother we got air blown in there and the vermiculite and the Billet drops right on in there we've done this in shot before but it's the dust is horrific so we do it outside every opportunity and that's gonna cool down super slow so it can normalize I still will run it through a normalizing process though [Music] that is my pattern that I'm shooting for right there it's on the end my son Kyle has made the best membership for knife makers take it away Kyle if you're finding this video informative you'll also like our membership called knifemaker plus once you become a member you'll get monthly videos where I teach you new skills that will benefit you for the rest of your knife making Journey we're currently working on a small quillian dagger the Stagger build will have four episodes showing in detail how to make this Damascus dagger each episode will be released on the first of every month in episode 1 I go way more in detail showing you how to make this Damascus and things to do and not to do I also clearly illustrate each step of making this Twisted Mosaic steel so you can see clearly what's going on with the layers as we develop it into a pattern after you set the welds all you would do is take that Billet rotate it 90 degrees and press it down with all the layers being vertical I want everything to be pressed down at the same rate so by making a little sheath to fill in this area we'll be able to forge weld everything thing together in the hydraulic press and have it all pressed down at the same time we don't want that W layer going across the Billet like this we actually want it to go across from corner to corner so in order to do that we're going to take our Billet and we're going to rotate it 45 degrees just like what you see here once you become a member you'll get instant access to episode 1 which is over two hours long showing you how to make this composite Mosaic two bar twist pattern Damascus we tried a video the membership content as best we can to make you feel like you're actually in my shop learning from me one-on-one so if any of that sounds interesting to you then check out the link in the description membership is only 25 a month be sure to get your membership before the 10th because after the 10th enrollment will be closed for the next four months so join the number one knife making membership and learn the skills you need to make better knives I sliced off two thin pieces off that Billet to make this little little dinky knife [Music] [Music] oh weld these little guys together zero atmosphere I weld them end to end they're not cut on a 35 degree angle like we usually do on our mosaics these are welded end to end which make it a little more challenging for the four dwell to stick I'm just grinding off a little extra welds I don't push it deep into the Billet foreign I thought I'd just use this old dinky Forge it welded and I'm just taking off some of the can now you can see when I asked it in a very chloride part of it is still uh got the skin on it we want to take it all the way down too or it just stops the skin just stops showing up and we'll start forging the shape after that I quenched it to harden it then I tempered it back and made it tough through the tempering process thank you I Gotta Straighten it just a little bit it's got a little tweak in it this is a knife that the customer designed uh she sent me some photos of one of her husband's favorite knife that she's making this for him as a surprise I haven't done a knife with this profile before a little different little fun since it's going to be a Full Tang I'm going to taper that Tang down to I don't know maybe uh 12 thousands back the back side just none really nice uh deep ER to it almost to nothing foreign trying to find Center on there I'm leaving myself I don't know about 30 thousandths in the center there between the two lines I put the lines on there as reference marks also they'll want to go ahead and taper the Tang I can make sure that I'm tapering it evenly on both sides but I'll use those lines when I go to grind the the blade Edge in also I just ran them all the way around the edge of the blade I'm grinding the taper on the Tang right now there's stops on the surface grinding attachment here on the Belt grinder so if I do uh 20 000 sham on one side when I flip the knife over I just put in like 40 thousandths double it and it mirrors the taper on the other side all right I'm gonna take some of the taper out of this Tang to make it tough and I've also got the drill several holes in this I use carbide Mill bits so it's it doesn't matter if it's hard or not but it helps if you just take some of that hardness out of it those are not my handle scales those are some stops I put on there uh to help me stop without over grinding at my plunge grind I'll run those out those uh scrap pieces of wood out just past my plunge grind then when I go to do my plunge grind I've got just maybe an eighth inch material that I can fine tune it back to back to a scribe line got my plunge grind in I got a really tight radius I made a custom radius for the plunge grind fixture I'm going to sand this up to about 320. soften that spine a little bit the radius The Edge a little bit I want to get everything to 320. I'll put my Maker's Mark in there I'll take this up to about 1500 before I hatch but this is a really good place to stop why I'm getting ready to put the handle on and still fit in things oh all right it's magic it's elephant Magic yeah I think that's a piece of Ebony I cut a block in half Mark those again too because there's a particular grain that I wanted to see and if you just start grinding and cutting on stuff without marking it you lose track of where that beautiful knot or some kind of imperfection you want to look at that's in the wood you don't want to disappear and actually then let me put it to the inside so I marked everything [Music] I just got the shop back hooked up to the no so of course I got to use it right away everybody's not too bad to have around the shop it's pretty minimal on toxicity in fibrous but anyway we're still sucking it up because we can [Music] all right we're gonna melt a couple holes in here for the hail material it's a carbide End Mill bit it walks right through that high carbon steel I'm taking a grinding stone here and making a little relief and scuffing it up give them that epoxy a really good place to grab a hold of I've got probably 320 grit on the Tang itself which is plenty coarse but I went ahead and roughed it up all the more in the center just because I could these pins and the handle will be 100 functional uh the epoxy will will hold I don't need to have the pins on there but they make great Aesthetics and they do they do hold if there's an extreme situation they will hold the scales on I'm just trying to match up the the profile the wood the profile the blade just little tweaks to the profile I can make a little bit of it grind a little bit of it here and a little bit there just uh make the profile a little sweeter I think it's about an inch and a half round wheel Kai uses a two inch round wheel really regularly here this one happened to be in the machine so I think I just went with it we got it pretty close to where I want it so I'm gonna start hand finishing I'm gonna put that strap across it that sanding belt and do it by hand it helps even the highs and lows out for me and make the two sides symmetrical foreign on the edges ever so gently just rounded them and I did the same thing on the wood and it makes a really nice soft uh transition from the wood to the to the metal Tang on that Mosaic I got two full mosaic tile in the blade so you can see the pattern repeated twice and I'm getting ready for my final pins getting them flat getting them thinned out a little bit getting them rounded should they go through the hole real smooth without blowing out on the back side these are argentium silver pins they're just a little proud of the hole so I'm going to just turn them down a little bit with the Sandpaper and the drill [Applause] I got my blade coffee darkened where I want it I'm going to come back in with the sunshine cloth and and take some of that that coffee etch off to reveal the the high contrast between the 15 and 20 and the 1084. just to make it shine now you see the contrast really good there I'm gonna Heat this up a little bit with the heat gun it won't even come close to messing with my temper it's going to be I don't know somewhere around 300 degrees and take some Carnival Wax and put on there because my blade is finished I'll keep it protected from here on out after the coffee etch I'm gonna scuff up the Tang a little bit more to give the epoxy a good place to dig into and touch up the Dremel tool marks down inside the Tang rough it back up again maybe get a little bit closer to the edge without revealing the edge [Music] and we're gonna make up mix up some G Flex it's a great epoxy two-part epoxy I used WD-40 and Q-tips to clean this up clean the epoxy off I don't worry about the WD-40 getting in between the metal and the wood because that G Flex is in there so thick that the wd-4 doesn't have a chance to to thin it down and push past it these clamps have little spotches of leather on them so they're it's not metal on the wood it's it's leather touching the wood while I clamp it and they're just tight enough to gently squeeze the scales all right we're getting ready to dome the pins so I protect the entire blade and the handle almost the handle and we're going to start working down the the pins in order to dome them on kitchen cutlery I used dome pins quite often and I don't I don't let them stick up too much just a little bit just enough to know that it's Dome pin instead of making them flush it's a little more exciting it's a little more drama to the handle it's a little more appealing to the eye uh and it doesn't show up at all with the ergonomics of it the feel if anything it gives you a place to index from knowing that you've got this part of the knife in your hand in a particular spot those are pretty low profile on hunters and Fighters and buoys I leave them stick up a little bit more now we're getting ready to do our final sharpening this particular sharpening tool is for sharpening chisels for a graving system but it also works really nice on knives I just use that graving sharpener to get the knife started and I finish it off with a stone [Laughter] foreign [Music] we got it oiled looks good it was a fun build client's design it was a nice change of pace for me when I got this order I knew my client lived in Germany but I had no idea that they were at the German Alps hey thanks for watching May the forge be with you bye bye don't forget to check out the number one knife making membership the four enrollment closes [Music]

Channel: Kyle Royer

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Length: 30min 45sec (1845 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 08 2022