Knifemaking: Kitchen Knife Made With Scrap High Carbon Steel
Making a fine cutting tool out of cheap materials and scrap pieces, using many of my homemade tools and jigs and various vintage equipment I restored in videos during my years on KZhead!
I forgot to measure the end product on camera so here are the specs:
The blade ended up 145mm long and 45mm at the widest. Overall lentght 255mm, thickness tapered from 3.5mm to zero. Steel is 1070 (aka C70) high carbon steel, differentially heat treated with edge hardness between 50 and 55 Rockwell.
Handle is made of tabilized okumè and olive burl wood, with red (and a line of grey) felt liners, fixed to the tang just by friction in a japanese traditional way with split dowel.
Here are some of the videos where I go in more details about some of the tecniques used in this video:
Stabilizing wood: • Stabilizing Wood With ...
Homemade Liners: • Felt And Resin Liner /...
Dedicated hamon video: • Knife Making: Hamon On...
And here are some of the videos about the tools I used:
Fullering jig: • Blacksmithing Jig | Fu...
File Guide: • DIY File Guide With Ik...
Hardening oven: • DIY Heat Treatment Oven
Tempering oven: • PID Controlled And Ins...
Vacuum pump and chamber used to stabilize: • DIY Vacuum Pump And Ch...
My lovely drill press: • ROSA Drill Press Resto...
Grinder - Buffer: • 1950s Italian Bench Gr...
I just started to list some of the stuff I use for my projects in this amazon storefront:
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Index of operation and materials:
0:22 Isolate tang material with my new fullering jig
0:41 Forge down the tang
1:16 Forge Blade Rough shape
1:32 Forge Bevels
2:00 Annhealed off camera by slowly cooling it with the forge
2:16 Grind profile with 2x72 belt grinder
2:50 Clean tang transition with homemade file guide
3:14 Grind radious with die grinder and round stone bit
3:34 Bevels fough grind
4:00 Apply exhaust pipe sealer to differentialy harden the blade
4:52 Hardening: Heat to 825°c and quench in 80°c oil
5:25 Removing scales with steel wire wheel on bench grinder
5:40 Tempering: Heat to 200°c for 2hrs
5:57 Final Grind of bevels, keeping blade cool with water
6:30 Hand sanding bevels up to 1200grit (also buffed off camera to a mirror polish)
7:02 Etch with ferric chloride to reveal hamon line
7:10 Clean and neutralize acid and remove oxide layer with fine steel whool
7:40 Prepare wood for handle cut to lenght with hand saw and to size with metal cutting band saw
8:00 Stabilize wood, process explained in detail in another video
9:40 Make red felt and gray cardstock liner, process explained in detail in another video
11:07 Glue handle stack with epoxy resin
11:30 Grind handle stock quare
11:44 Drill 10mm hole with drill press
12:14 Grind handle into octagon (some footage was lost here, sorry)
12:34 Split dowel with metal cutting bandsaw
12:45 Assemble knife with a bit of white mineral oil
13:05 Press friction fit
13:10 Strop on leather with fine polishing coumpount to get the sharp edge, bevels ground to zero, no secondary bevel.
Thanks a lot for watching, I hope you liked the video!
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nice to see your hammer holding improved, i'd suggest a slightly heavier hammer and a slightly looser grip so your hand lasts longer than till the age of 45
Can you make a old Western knife
Excellent 👏👌😍❤️
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Hi this Chanel and video is wery cool! Why dont you try puting some music on backround?
From trash to treasure ! You can't hide quality Workmanship !!!!
One of the coolest parts of this channel is watching you use tools you made or restored in earlier episodes to make and restore new things. :-)
Thanks!!! Glad you notice!
Agreed
Its been 45 years since I did any blacksmithing and its still a pleasure to watch an artisan at work...kudos to you black bear
I initially thought that you were one of those channels that artificially age and rust stuff just so you could have a restoration project, but seeing how you have actual forging skill, it seems I was wrong. Your work is legit.
Elegantly made knife. I liked seeing all of the specialized tools he has to work with.
First time I see the half dowel trick to hold the tang in the handle! It's neat!
la cura che metti nei tuoi filmato è la stessa cura che emerge dal tuo lavoro finale. Bravo: questa è arte del lavoro.
I can literally watch his videos all day! I'm a novice knife maker and he gives me TONS of ideas and shortcuts.
Wow, watching you is like watching my Grandfather at his forge when I was a lad in the 1950s. Great job!
Thank you ! not only for the great videos but also for always writing a very detailed description.😃😃😃
I love watching you slice through the paper with the finished knife. 😍
I am very new to knife making. Watching this has been absolutely inspirational to me.
Amazing project. I think I get more satisfaction from using the scrap than from any other knife builds.
I didn't expect the hamon to like that👍
The hamon came out very beautiful.the forced patina is a cool look also.
Hi, I am writing through Google a translator from Russian. Please add a spring of small force to the upper stem so that it pulls down. When you hit with a hammer, the rod will not bounce up. You will be comfortable.
So, that's how it works. More efficient than cutting the metal. Wise man.
Your fast forward smithing sound like a nice best. Very nice video! Thank you!
This is the most beautiful knife I’ve seen in a while
That was fantastic to watch. I loved the way you fit that tang with the dowel. I might have to try that some day.
Not only are you knives awesome, Your videos and editing are brilliant. MOST of all, The process explanations in your description.. Well done mate. da un amico in Australia.
Nice work black !!! Love your blacksmith vid
Been a subscriber for quite some time and I just happened upon this video. Your artistic talents were intact for quite some time. Love all you've created and restored. Nice to look into the past. Appreciate your skills and as always, thank you for posting this video. 👍👍👍
That's a gorgeous piece there Sir!!!
love the differential hardening in the quench :)
Beautiful Knife BBP!!! excellent craftsmanship.
Amazing, great knife from scraps!!
Nice knife. :) That out of then way, I stand (Well, sit...) in silent awe of your skills, from forging to handle making. Allow me to pay you my highest compliment, *I wish I could do that!* Looking forward to more.
that is a fantastic movie, watched it from the beggining to the end :) recycle knifemaking is the best :)
What?! Thank you so much Trollsky!!! Earlier today I watched your hammer video while exporting. Great looking film and awesome work! Long time viewer here :) thanks a lot man, very much appreciated.
@@BlackBeardProjects thanks a lot man ! we should do something together since I am back on youtube :)
I must say your forge work looks quite impressive
I really enjoyed your vid! Loved the design! Well done!
Beautiful work!
I don't get a lot of the process that went into this, but the results can't be argued with. That came out damn near perfect.
Another great project!
Nice video. Knife look beautiful with that hamon line running.
Un altro bellissimo progetto, sai dare valore a tutto, sei un mostro di bravura, nulla da aggiungere, adoro questi progetti
What can I say but Excellent work👍👍👍 . Thanks for sharing. It is SHARP!!!!!!
Fantastic as always. Cheers, mate!
Beautiful work. Great to watch too.
Wow! The knife looks very sharp, good for cutting.
As always love the content and keep up the great work
Great work!
Wow from that piece of junk to a beautiful kitchen knife and I love the hilt very good work definitely deserves a like, wish I could do stuff like that, nice.
Sweet looking little blade
Very cool project!
That was awesome! Great job!
Beautiful work
Badass! Your videos are awesome and inspirational! 👍👍👍
Nice work!!!
Good job my friend 👌👌 I always enjoy your videos and your huge and broad variety of super skills 👌 best regards Martin
Awesome Restorations Love watching your videos too!
What a cool way to break in your new made tools too
Real engineering. Very nice work.keep on.
Esse aí é o cara, tirei o chapéu.
Good job, beautiful knife
Simply superb
That is a beautiful work !!!
Great job!
Wow that is a cool looking knife
Great stuff Gader
Good looking Hamon !
Love the knife great project, Your tomato looks weird man 🤣
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beefsteak_tomato
it is called Buffalo Heart tomato, very juicy ;P
Looks like a pumpkin
heirloom tomatoes are way yummier than your regular cheapo beefsteak tomatoes. but never put it in the fridge, cuse even 10 mins in the fridge causes tomatoes to rapidly lose their volatile compounds responsible for their flavor, making them bland and gross.
@@BothHands1 oh I see, thanks for the explanation. I just never see one like this before.
I like that you forged the bevel instead of grinding it all the way.
Nice job!
Awesome work! 😃👍🏻👊🏻
Enjoyed your video and gave it a Thumbs Up
This is just unreal!👍👍👍
Came out nice!
very nice looking knife. damn sharp too.
Cool project
Nice work
Good knife right to the point
Make the knife shine and don't make it dull like that.. your follower from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
Beautiful work! As always, thank you for sharing!
Nice job it's awesome
Love these videos
Beautiful. Love it. Want it.
awesome vid !
..WOW !! GREAT KNIFE BUILD, GOOD VID..
Tout simplement sublime, bravo
Браво МАЭСТРО!
Arma letal, como dejo al tomate,un cuchillo divino de la muerte,un saludo y por supuesto un gran like desde Narón,Galicia (España)
Liked. Learn many things today.
Good work.
I love you're channel!
Muy bonito y el acabado rústico lo hace ver mejor diez puntos!
Beautiful
pretty good hunting knife as well - well done!
Good job. Congratulations.
Love that hamon
love this working hard
Sick knife
Dnt want the video to end! and this is the best answer for "why HANDMADE is so expensive?" for me atleast!
I love the 2 tone liner you used this time. That rich red and grey worked really well! Also for someone that keeps saying he's not a chef your knife skill on those tomatoes is looking pretty good ;)
Ahah!! Thanks a lot brother!
I was skeptical in the beginning but man is that an awesome knife.
Respect from Egypt Man
Very nice!!!
This is another cool video thank you so much
Really Nice 👍
nice work