alright i have officially made my very first blade and i managed to get it cut
out of this here and I let's see how close I actually am I had to do a little
freestyling but yeah that's pretty close
yep I'm happy alright that's a start
okay and I've got a sheet started but uh before I go any more what I want is this
knife with the handle to sit down like this about like that the handle is going
to come down to right about here so I'm not sure I'll be able to use this top
piece I may have to cut a wider piece up here because I want the handle the fit
down in there and I'm probably going to wet this and mash it down around that
handle and pinch it closed you know what hold it there with these bulldog clips
because uh I'm not going to put a I don't know what you call it a snap
keeper on this and kind of probably fold up a belt loop and put it on the back
side of this sort of like this anyway I'm getting ahead of myself I'm going to
make the knife first now let's see yeah let's pick out some nice no I kind
of like that got some really nice figure in it is it big enough barely but i
think i can do it i think i can get two halves out of that how what'd you do
find something interesting yep back at it tomorrow I talked to my friend Ricky
Rick Wallace knives or Wallace what is it Wallace knives & outdoors because I
think he included the outdoors because he does a lot of screwing off fishing
and stuff anyway he gave me some pointers some advice and yeah it's a lot
of work using an angled cutter oh when he told me a good place to buy a 01 tool
steel and I'm glad he told me because i looked at amazon and i was thinking that
there goes my knife making there's no way i could afford that tool steel off
of amazon some of that stuff was 45 bucks for a piece of tool steel but
there's this place called Jantz JN TZ supply up north of dallas and they got
some real good prices on their tool steels so now on well that's not true i
do have I have three blanks coming I ordered through amazon and the reason i
ordered room is because i want to trace them out on my little pieces of plywood
and make some of these i want to copy them basically and after those three
from now on i'm making my own blades i have not got to the point yet where I'm
able to heat treat these I'm thinking of making a small heat treating Forge
either out of one of those free on cans or one of those big pipes right there I
haven't decided yet and I you know I just don't have enough
scrap I may have to go and get to go to scrap yard and see what they can hook me
up with as far as pipes because I only want to make one you know there's people
that have made them out of tin cans or called 10 can forges and that's
basically what i want but i only want to make it once and I just can't imagine
the tin can lasting that long so I want to build it heavier Autobot either pipe
like this maybe a little bigger or cut this tank up you know cut the top and
the bottom off and weld a flat piece on the back and and fill the inside up with
some I think the mixture is a plaster of Paris and sand or maybe it was concrete
and sand I can't remember but anyway it's all over the Internet I just
basically wanted to tell you i made my first night for not how to make it but
you know what i mean i cut out my first knife and out of that hacksaw blade I
can't wait to get started doing this ok see you tomorrow all right i got the
stocks roughed out it's going to this is going too easy i know i'm going to make
a terrible mistake because this is just going too fast I like the figure in that
would I can't wait to get it all sand it out and the brass pins in it and i don't
know if i'll use polyurethane or tru oil but probably true oil it doesn't
polyurethane is just too slick and shiny tru oil does give it a really nice
really nice shine anyway I did say see you tomorrow but I couldn't leave i got
to looking at this wood and see how pretty it was and thinking you know i'm
just going to make cut these up real quick and see how they look and since
i'm here maybe i'll go ahead and drill my holes
I think here's here's the problem this this hole is going to be a little too
close to the end of this so i may just do two holes you know to two quarter
inch brass pins or maybe i'll do 38 inch brass pins hmm i'll think about it okay
now going in I got to get this up walnut out of my nose good god it's stinging
yeah I knew it was too good to be true I
can't seem to drill through this I've got nothing that will drill that let me
go see what my damn dogs are barking had my neighbor my neighbor was outside
doing something I have one very expensive solid carbide bit I'm going to
see if I can use it to cut through this if this won't do it what I'm going to do
let's take my torch and put it on a a real pin flame and heat these three
areas up that I want to drill the holes I'm going to heat them up red hot and
see if I can get them you can get them this metal to soften up some where the
holes are going to be drilled all right let me let me put this on drill press
see if that'll cut it nope it started throwing some chips I hold it pretty
good but uh you see that
the chipped the cutting edge of my carbide blade carbide bit chipped it so
that was 25 bucks oh well back to the drawing board I'm going to go ahead and
heat this up cherry red or or I want the holes to be and see if that'll help see
if it's cool enough to touch yep I believe little drill now let me go did I
warp it doesn't appear all right I'm trying to grill it one more time okay
this thing is made of unobtainium or what the hell IAM cannot i have ruined
two bits trying to get through this and I heat this up look I heat it up so hot
that's what happened the molten metal bubbled I guess I really don't know I
really don't know I guess I'm gonna have to consult the Oracle Google another
time or two I got online that said the way to soften hardened steel is to heat
it up cherry red and then let it cool naturally and that's what I did so I
must be missing something and uh that a drill bit that expensive drill bit that
I used I don't know of anything harder than that except diamond crap well it's
another day in the shop and if nothing else this has been a valuable learning
experience it's really starting to come out nice really starting to look good I
spoke to my friend Ricky and he said that
you can use two part epoxy to hold these grips on it wouldn't know window pens
he's done it and it's working excuse me I saw Dustin and I guess when I heated
this up cherry red and then let it cool naturally I guess it became brittle
because I tried doing this to the saw blade that I cut this out of you know
bending it and it doesn't snap so I don't know what kind of steel this is
made out of but uh but I don't try this again I've got two more blades and when
I was sanding this I noticed that there is a slight warp in it a slight Bend I
mean you couldn't even see it with the naked eye had to put a straight edge on
it so I put it in my vice and pulled sideways on it ever so slightly I mean I
didn't even barely get my hand on it to pull it sideways and it snapped right
into so I like to shake I was really happy with the way it was coming out
these were nice flat and I was gonna made up real nice anyway Atia I'm just
not going to I've got two more of them up there and I'm not going to do this
with them what I'm going to do is just order some tools steel and cut them out
on my bandsaw and just go from there I will have to heat-treat them and between
now and finishing a blade I will have a forge made so that's my next project is
making a heat treatment Forge all right drank my coffee and lick my wounds
thanks for watching up I'm gonna go ahead and put this up just so you know
where I'm at in my knife making back to the drawing board
okay this is just what I need a visit from a friend to make fun of my broken
but my broken knife yes we would be fine it's a pocket knife you can fold it up
and stick it in your pocket oh no no sweat super going to spin super glue
made some duct tape baling wire this is duane y'all this is my friend Dwayne see
you away and I just went to the scrap yard and he got some stuff and I got
some stuff to make a forge but saw this laying in the mud and uh what what did I
give what nine bucks firmer than all my stuff and you get four bucks for years
so i got this fight layin up mud it's a swivel vice it swivels here it's got two
jugs blocks here too yeah so it's a compound swivel it swivels this away and
this away use that crimp to the bench yep I'll take that part clean it up oil
it up and I had no idea what I'll use it for it but a nice to have carrot nanner
cool for sent ten dollars right now sets cover my cover my Forge build all right
I'm gonna build a forge besides me and Charlie you were the only person you and
Sue are the only person on this planet that he will have anything to do with
being like he didn't did not like