Blacksmithing - File to Knife with Mini Charcoal Forge
2022 ж. 27 Шіл.
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I try my hand at forging a small knife from a file.
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Knife making has existed for so many centuries that I am certain any knife we make is a blatant copy of someones previous efforts. I enjoy your channel. Keep up the good work.
I can see that little forge being modified to be the fire pot in a larger forge, Very nice little thing :)
Man this guy speak like a og ai. Nice vid I’m thinking on purchasing on and giving it a shot
A Craftsman-Blacksmith in the true sense. Simplistic and to the point, done with an obvious love for your creativity skills..!? Thanks, i enjoyed every minute of it..!!
I love my charcoal forge. Cheap to run, fun to use and the best way to forge weld. Plus, I use it to make the coffee and cook lunch and my neighbours think I'm having a BBQ
Small charcoal forge comes in really handy. Also love mine. Thanks sharing. 😬
Nice little knife there Glen, thanks for sharing. I'm sure your yoga teacher will be chuffed with it.
Abby said, "wow, that's so cute". So in addition to this, I gifted her a bigger knife! Cute maybe isn't what you want to hear when describing a knife and some other things. Thanks Tony. 😁
Hey I wouldn't worry about those people what they say they're a bunch of haters I love your show😊
Love the mini forge and the knife, the skeleton handle really makes it. Thanks Glen.
The knife is unique but nothing to write home about. Abby said it's cute so I gifted her another, bigger knife! I need more knife making practice... Thanks. 😁
Best Blacksmith from the entire KZhead. Clean and sharp stile of making stuf! GJ!
More cole means a larger fire with less oxigen, especially necessary for forgewelding. Also keeping burnt cole at the end is useful for an easy start next time. Nice to see you working the cole forge. Thanks for sharing!
For sure your points are very good. And I have some "used" coal leftover from this for next start. I really like using this mini forge. Thanks. 😬
Well, that was fun to watch. good job Glen...
Abby said this knife is cute. I proceeded to gift her a larger, perhaps more useful knife. I gotta get more blade practice in. Thanks for sticking with my channel. 😬
Nice job! She'll love it.
I haven't heard any feedback but she said several times it's "cute". So I decided to gift her another, bigger knife! 😁
Great little knife, Glen! Hair or no hair, Abby will love it! Lol!
Hey Steve, Hair today, gone tomorrow. Abby said the knife is "cute". Not exactly what you want to hear about a knife. So I gifted her another, bigger knife! We men are truly stupid at times. Thanks for all. 😁🙃
Ouch! "Cute" is definitely no what you want to hear! Was the next one a bowie knife, or a machete? 😂😂😅😆
Nice change of pace Glen. A far cry away from the Beaver Cleavage vids flooding my timeline
I just ignore the nonsense when possible. But my feed also gets jammed with some real hammer head videos. Thanks for sure. 😊
What a kuul project! Lil charforgeasaurous really did a job no doubt. I think you like it a lot. " Hello Costco....I need to order some chunk charcoal.... Blessing brother Crawford out 🙏🔥⚒️🧙🏼♂️
Yeah, this tiny forge or charforgeasaurous is really fun to use. Great name by the way. I have to remember that for future videos! Thanks for sure. 😁
How could they forget about the mini charcoal forge😂😂.great video
Hi Ty, This forge is no joke! Works well for what it is. More to come... Thanks. 😁
That came out really nice! 👍👍
It's not terrible and I'm sure Abby can find some use for it. But I need to get more time in with making knives in general. Thanks. 😬
Great job!
Nice job Glen!
Thanks robert. This knife is nothing special but Abby seemed to like it and so that's all that matters. 🙂
cute little knife thanks for sharing
That is exactly what Abby said - cute... Not exactly what one wants to hear about a knife so I gifted her another, bigger knife I made! 🙃
I have made a knife out of a file in a coal forge the only thing I don't like about coal forges is you get like a backwards curve bit. But I made it for my mom so she can chop veggies with it good. But I like to do blacksmithing and bladesmithing like they used to.
Excellent 😮❤❤❤
I just brought a fordge like this for wok cooking looks like it will work well
thats a cracking idea
Hi Barry, someone else is using their mini charcoal forge for making coffee and bbq'ing. Your idea sounds good to me. Thanks for watching. 🙂
I agree. Thanks. 😬
That little forge is so cool. I don’t have the space or $$ for a big blacksmith set up, but this would be fun to mess around with. Is that from where you are at?
I’ve been wanting to mess with blacksmithing for awhile now but I don’t want to spend a lot of money on a forge so I was looking around and found this same one on Amazon so I looked it up on KZhead and it brought me here
@@shootinturkeys I found one for sale like that for 400, restored. Think that’s good deal?
@@andrewlast1535 amazon has cheap ones for >$200
Hey Glen, you can make the next Blade show. My favorites knife making channel is 'Tyrell Knifeworks'. Denis earned his Journeyman's at Atlanta's Blade Show last month. Enjoyed the video
Hey Brooks, I would be laughed out of the building! And now on display: a baby knife made with a baby forge by a baby brained balcony blacksmith. Glad you enjoyed and I will continue with the occasional knife making project for sure. Thanks for all. 😬
@@gstongs LOL, don't under-estimate your skills! Stay safe.
Hey Glen. Hope all is well.
Hello there Tommy. Thanks for watching and I wish you the same.
How quickly does that forge come up to heat?
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I've enjoyed watching this, I have but one question, and I've got no experience in blacksmithing, because it's already hardened still, is there no more hardening or quenching need to be done once you got the profile you wanted? Thanks for your time.
Every time you heat up a hardend piece of steel it loses its hardness. You need to re-harden after finishing your work with it. Steps are the following ones for forging a blade: 1. Work: you heat up the metal and work and shape it. 2. Normalization: You heat up your piece of metal to critical temperature (hardening temp) and let it cool slowly so that all material stress can disolve. Do that 2-3 time. 3. Hardening: You bring your piece of metal to critical temperature (~720-810°C) at which it will be nonmagnetic and quench it in hardening oil or water, depends on the steel. 4. Tempering: You take away a bit of the hardness because the steelblade would be so brittle it would break like glas. So you put it in an oven for about 2h on 200°C That's a very rough discription! It's like explaining how to drive and say: "well you get in the car and start the motor and stomp on the pedal and than it moves!" :)
Just curious about that step where you were rubbing the knife on that red hot chunk of steel . . . what was the purpose of that?
Tempering
Knife looks good, to hot to forge here also under a burn ban
Nice work keep the good work coming, thanks
The knife is nothing to write home about but Abby got a kick out of it and called it cute. Later, I gifted her a larger, perhaps better knife. Thanks Kennard.🙂
I'll do my best Tom. Thanks. 🙂
Nice knife Glen, might be just me but is the handle upside down?😁
I honestly don't know. I've seen most of this style made this way. Maybe a case of monkey see, monkey do and I the knife videos I saw were made by actual real monkeys which probably makes me less than a monkey... Thanks Paul. 🙃
@@gstongs I could be the monkey Glen,but to me it just looks odd!
Hey brother, you just need to do a handstand when watching and forget which side the edge is on.
@@gstongs Thats gotta help!🤣
Not every file is the same .Old files can be hardened in oil ,new production files are quenched in brine at factory which is combination of 10% kitchen salt and water for faster cooling.
I actually learned this the hard way very recently. I made a tool from another file and the heat treat went haywire. Very good information - thanks for sharing. ☺
Interesting to me that you can get away with having an open fire on your balcony. My last apartment complex would have terminated my lease!
Mask it as a bbq -no problems .Actually noise from hammering might be the bigger problem.
Taipei is sort of unique in this way. I'm actually on the roof so few people can smell it and to be honest, once it's fired up well, there's little smoke. But the unique thing is so many people here burn "joss" money on certain special dates - money for dead people. You would be hard to tell if I'm making an offering to deceased, bbq'ing or blacksmithing. Thanks Bryson. 🙂
You're very close to perfectly correct. Thanks for still being active on my channel. 😬
Where can I find a square anvil like he got
He had that machined I think.
You didn't show how you engraved it
Don't forget the coin!
Hey Alan, don't forget what? You lost me. Thanks all the same. 🙂
@@gstongs The old superstition, that you always give a coin with a knife, lest the knife sever the friendship. The coin is returned to you, making it a commercial transaction, not a gift, neatly side-stepping the threat of a severed relationship.
If you used water on your coke and made a little cage and ran your rod through the cave you could have heated that knife up anywhere you wanted .