hi everyone so let's talk about this cleaver. My good friend
has three of my knives that I made. He always buys knives from me so he
was working on a house and they were remodeling and they took the radiator
away and behind the wall he found a cleaver so he saw my previous
videos I restored the cleavers and he wanted that cleaver to be restored so he
contacted me and asked me to restore for him and I agreed I get a lot of comments
saying that that cleaver was used to in a crime scene or something like
that but I don't know nobody knows and nobody will ever know but one thing
I know is when it came to me it had a lot of cat hair on it and the handles
really really stunk with cat urine so I used those blue rubber gloves to handle
it and I threw the handles away but like I said maybe somebody used
cleaver on a cat but the whole cleaver was covered with the
cat hair I don't know why somebody put it behind
the wall so it'll be a mystery in the beginning Tom and I agreed to have a
nice satin finish on the cleaver just the same one as that I did for Mr.
Barnhart the second one but after I received the cleaver I saw that there
was not enough steel on the cleaver itself. if you look at it you
have a lot of steel here the thickness right here but then take a look it
becomes thin at this portion so I mean there's maybe 1/8 thick here and
1/4 thick here so in order to make it nice and flat I would have to
grind everything to this thickness and even then you see how everything is
not flat so there was no point of grinding
the whole cleaver to put a nice satin finish both was decided to leave it
as is and also preserved the logo of the cleaver of the original maker I tried to
google it see who made it but nothing came up in the result after leaving the
cleaver in the vinegar for 48 hours a lot of rust came off and it revealed
like I said it revealed the logo of the cleaver and also it showed me the steel
pattern that I have not seen before it looked like cast iron but later on one
of the viewers that follows me on on YouTube he said that it was a wrought
iron body with carbon steel for the edge some viewers thought that I should have
spent more time on a cleaver and hand sand everything and some of
them said that I should have threw it away because the cleaver had a lot of
cracks in and delamination but on the other hand a lot of people loved it and
they appreciated that I left the original texture of the steel and didn't
take the grinder and just grind everything off of it also by not
grinding the whole blade it preserved the logo to the person that commented
that because of the cracks in the cleaver, cleaver should have never been
restored and just thrown away from the business side of view, if somebody gives
you work to to be worked on you know you just take it and do what they want and
also Thomas's is a knife collector he collects many knives and this cleaver is
not going to be used chop it up anything he stores all the knives that I made, he
keeps them in the same condition as they left my hands so this cleaver is not
gonna be used in any way shape or form
never used and never gonna be used it's perfect
one viewer commented that I should have left all the hammer marks on this
cleaver like I did on Mr. Barnhart's but this cleaver was so damaged that to
point at the edges were so sharp and I had to grind them off and Tom also
agreed for me to grind them off to make the cleaver look much better and so it'd
be much safer to use in hands this cleaver was not easy to work on because
I couldn't place it on a one two three blocks and I usually place
it and then I used the the high gage and I find the center and then I transfer
that Center on to the handle but I couldn't do it with this cleaver because
it didn't have the same thickness here as here so I couldn't find the center of
it so this part I find the center here but when I check it here you'll be off
everything had to be done by eye and it was pain to work on it. it
gave me a little problems but eventually it came out good all the materials used on
this cleaver were approved by Tom and I used the same Damascus steel from
Nicholls Damascus that I used on Thomas tanto knife I made way way back earlier
I used the Ironwood, G10 fiberglass, Ironwood, stabilized redwood burl and
maple burl and yes I'm still placing logos per customer's request why did I
use Vaseline on a tang of the cleaver I want to connect a Ironwood G10
Ironwood and a redwood burl together and after they're all glued up I didn't want
the excess of glue to be stuck to the tang I want to be able to slide off so
that's why it's so the glue wouldn't stick to the tang the metal piece that's
alone that's the only reason I used the little trick I learned from Nick Wheeler
he used a black tape and he placed it on on the metal piece here what it did it
created space so when the finish and fit of the wood would not be flat with steel
or the bolster and it gives a little nice finish or a nice touch to the
finished product. I'd like to thank metal rescue for contacting me and given me
their product to try it out and it was perfect timing because after using the
vinegar it did not remove all the rust I mean they removed like 90% of the rust
but not all of it and I was planning to take the blade and get a sandblasted
but they contacted me and offered their product and it worked great
I used that gel pack and it took the rust off and also it left a very nice
patina this way distinguishes the different layers of the cleaver so I
think it came out beautiful and the metal rescue gel worked very very well
I'm very pleased with that product thank you those of you that watch my videos
for a long time you know that I don't usually sharpen my knives or cleavers
while I'm working on them this way I don't have to think about getting cut
but this time I sharpened it and after using that gel metal rescue I washed it
off with a hose and I tried to get the patina rubbed off and I cut myself so
yeah it wasn't fun but that that's why I don't usually sharpen my knives
now I'd like to address something that's not pertaining to the cleaver it's about
how people view how I answer the questions or reply to the comments that
are left so a viewer asked me what type of wood did I use for the cleaver what's
the name of it I responded to him by saying did you watch the video did you
see what was written on a piece of wood of block there green wood
so then another viewer read my answer or the comment that I left that person and
he said that I was being rude and this is what he told me he went out to say
that if I spent quarter of the energy on the blade that I did on a handle then
maybe maybe I could have had something that looked good so here's my response
to the that person I've been making videos for over three years and over
that time I've replied to a lot of comments and questions and the most
common questions that I get is what type of steel did you use what type of wood
did you use what's that piece of material did you use what type of tools
is that that you're using in this particular
video so replying to people and their comments and questions is very
time-consuming so what I try to do now is I take my time and effort
and I try to write it on that piece of block of wood the name of it. if I'm
using a piece of metal in the beginning of the video I write what type of steel
it is and what thickness it is this way hoping that you would eliminate those
questions and guess what people just don't care why because they skip through
my videos they don't watch my videos from the beginning to end let's take a
recent Knife that I made the Legionnaire knife from The Expendables number one
question is is the knife for sale can you make that knife for me what is the
first thing you see in a description when you look knife is not for sale and
I tell you that specifically why the knife is not for sale people still ask
me if I could make them another one the other question is what type of steel is
it very beginning of the video it's it's written on a piece of steel on the metal
that CPM 154 there are some commenters that
asked me what type of steel is it and then there are some people that reply
back to them saying oh it's probably aluminum listen guys if you don't know
the answer for that's a specific question please don't answer it
it just makes you look stupid and I don't want my product to look or I don't
want people to think that I'm using aluminum or something gathered that's
not what I used you know so just if you don't know the only answer I had one fan
telling me that he loves watching my videos and then the question came up do
you heat treat your own knives? and I was very puzzled by that question and I
asked him straight up I said do you watch the whole entire video that I post
or you skip around he said I didn't see you heat treat the knife I said oh yeah
did you watch all the all the videos all the parts he goes yeah I said well in in
those parts I show you how I heat treat my knives he goes oh yeah I kind of
skipped around so when people ask me what type of wood or steel I used that's
why I asked him straight up did you watch my video did you see this part I'm
not trying to be rude to them but um I mean to a certain point it becomes
obvious to me that they did not watch the whole video so that's why I asked
that question if he has to if he watched the video or not I'm not trying to be
rude I'm trying to understand if the person has a very legitimate question
or are they lazy and usually people are lazy to go and look up or
watch the whole video or look below the video to see in a description that
here's all the parts and material is used for that particular knife the other
thing that I started doing was when people ask me questions pertaining what
steel or wood are used I tried to tell them I go look below the
in the description this way next time when they watch my video
they will not be asking me they will first check the description and if I
forget to mention what I used in that video then I'll answer to them but I
don't want to just give out the answers without them doing their part looking it
up below the video I get comments that people tell me they would like to reach
my level of craftsmanship and they look up to me I too have people that I look
up to it I would love to get to their level of craftsmanship and they are
Edmund Davidson he doesn't have a YouTube channel but has an Instagram and
there's another channel that his name is Kyle
Royer and I would love to get to his level Kyle has been making knives for 14
years and he has a very wonderful YouTube channel and if you guys want to
learn some above and beyond what I show you I think you should go follow his
channel and check it out he has great content so tell him I said hi just
recently finished this one it's a Vipera Invader knife it has the kind of leather pattern
in sheath it's a Holstex i I love this sheath it brings a lot of texture
and it looks like leather but it's not so plus I can work with it I don't have
leather tools yeah but iron with handles with shorter handle and I'll tell you
what happens so customer came up to me and asked me if I could make two
knives for his two kids and I showed him I brought him the original size and he
goes oh that's too long too big his kids are like around 10 years old and nine or
eight so he said I want something shorter with the handle so I cut down
the handle moved everything up and started working on it and later on he
comes back a I'm not gonna buy the knife so still I finished it it's beautiful
love it thank you for watching my videos be safe don't cut yourself while
making knives take care I'll see you in the next video I forgot I
sharpened it I usually never sharpen my knives until I'm done