Forging a Spike & Rasp Knife
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- čas přidán 23. 11. 2015
- Combined with forge welding are a railroad spike and farrier's rasp to make a Bowie-style blade. I have a cold, apologies for my voice.
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The line seen on the sides of the knife where the rr spike meets the rasp is a superficial one and not a crack or bad weld. It is seen in areas where the surface markings of the file are still seen suggesting that grinding away the surface would reveal a solid weld. In fact, the line is absent in areas where the file markings are gone.
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Well I planned on going to bed early... Then I discovered this channel. It's somewhat soothing to sit and watch these, pretty awesome stuff!
I've never been into knives until I found your channel. the craftsmanship that goes into making them is amazing, it's captivating watching you hammer away. Very good work sir, keep it up.
That was so cool ! Throughout the video, I kept hoping that you would keep a little bit of the file's texture. Glad you did ! :)
I really like what you did and how you did it! You have obviously come a long, long way and have really honed ( no pun intended ) your craft and have really grown tremendously! Keep at it bubba.
wow! very nice job. I enjoy creating spike knives myself. I've made 24 so far but yours blows mine out of the water. Thank for sharing!
puting in commentary was a good idea as ive found others hard to watch without, keep up the good work!
i was not expecting that to work. Well done
The makeshift and rough look of the knife is really awesome! I would love to have a knife like that when I do work in my workshop ^^
I could watch these videos all day long.
That's pretty neat. My new neighbor has been wanting me to show him how to make something, this seems like a good project for that. Lots of different techniques being used in a single piece but still not too complicated.
Very nice work and info, thank you.
Forgot about this video and phew it's looking good for my 8 heller rasps I've got coming. Great build
The Diresta of blacksmithing
beautiful! I always like how you show the work going into your knives! First Rasp and Spike knife I've ever seen.
Not that I'm an aspiring blacksmith or anything, but I like your videos, informative and entertaining.
You have great production quality, I very much enjoy watching your videos because of how satisfying the lighting is.
Green B... Awesome project brother!
I really like the play by play commentary. It makes it so the viewer is so much more involved in the work you are doing.
Thanks for the video...
Shad
+shadowcastre Kind words, sir.
Then it is a chef's knife for when you're camping!
+lucas meyers We need more people to think like this.
im a chef and i love outdoor activities like camping fishing hunting ... this is a perfect knife for me
i love how humble and modest u are😜
This looks very cool! great job!
"I don't know if it's a chef knife"[...]"and I don't know if it's a camp knife"[.]
Well I can tell you for sure that it's a collector's piece! That's so cool! I'd love to try this myself one day. I don't have the materials I'd need, though, at this point.
Wow that's a beautiful polish! Awesome job!
This is so beautiful! I love watching your videos, you always do such a nice job making your knives!
at 15:50 you said you didn't know what kind of knife the was. I'd categorize it as a san-mai Bowie. in all the American frontier tradition of making what you had on hand the best it could be. this is probably the best spike knife build I've seen, really shows off not only your craftsmanship but even more importantly your understanding of metallurgy and what steels are appropriate to use go a good knife, instead of thinking that you can pound away on any old piece of steel and get a good knife. most end up as KLO 's (knife like objects), which this definitely is not. love the build!
+Zach Reiser Hey thanks, man.
It may not be the beefiest camp knife, but depending on the temper and the grind I could see it being awesome for light bushcraft. There's no need to tire your arm out swinging a kukri when all you need to do is cut a rope or whittle sticks for fire starting.
Nice video dude, I like the idea of the railroad/file knife. Well done
Nicely done!
great job my friend!!!! like this blade and the style !!! waiting for more
That is a really cool build i love the finished product nice work.
Cool. Another cool thing would maybe etching it, like Damascus steel, to bring out the file patterns and the rail road spike pattern
Really cool blade
seriously cool project! i may be mentally storing away this for later.
......sometimes beauty just jumps out of the fire into the hands holding the hammer.....I'd say this is one of those time my friend....Great knife, and awesome video! Gunny, USMC 2nd Force Recon, MEU, Ret.
Looks awesome! I think you've spawned a new breed. definitely a tough knife with a great look!
That is freaken awesome!
Very cool concept and nice execution. I think the final product is definitely greater than the sum of its parts.
Josh Brown knife is better than broken rasp and spike yis
cool knife, lots of character...keep swinging brother...
Awesome! I’ve been thinking about this exact project and then I found this.
cool forge . Nice job.
Beautiful knife man !
Amazing vids mate
Very nice, thanks for video, very well done
My favorite one so far man really cool I just subbed and watched bunch a videos
Very nice work Bravo
A zombie apocalypse, this knife is to be perfect
Great job 👍👍
looks great
That was really cool buddy
+Matt Diresta Thanks, I watch your vids!
+Green Beetle looks like a kukri for me
great creativity
Nice knife there man! Merry Christmas to you :D
It's unique. I like it
Very beautiful knife, I hope to make one like that some day
Good job thank you for sharing this
great video. thank you
it's really cool I like it
Cool knife.
That's awesome!
Look at young lele Steve just learning a lil bit a forge welding
good job man
thanks brother
love the vid learnt heaps cheers
Beautiful...
nice dude!
id love to have one of these for my veg prep at work :)
That's awesome! I want one. :)
Think I may have to try this out
Espetacular!!!
good stuff
That'd make a great bushcraft knife. The unfinished parts make it look rustic, or I could be wrong......but I like it.
i like it . very cool .
cheers
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Nice!
comming from another bladesmith thats a awesome job nice work sir i look foward to seeing more and id love to talk sometime and do a show and tell back and forth ive got a few ive done you might like and id love to see others of yours
Shit man you got voice smoother then James Earl Jones. Nice work.
Best part is when the red hot spike slips off the anvil and onto your leg :)
Cool for sure
You should make a karambit knife that would be awesome to watch
love the video, to split the rr spike, what was that tool?
awsome!
Were did u get your railroad spike tongs? I need a pare(or did u just make them)
Hey Green Beetle.
As a fellow smith, I just thought I'd mention something I noticed to help you. When you were slitting the spike, you were kind of hopping around as you hit and causing marks all over the steel. What I can recommend is to start off with some relatively light hits just to mark where you want to cut, then going back over with heavier hits to make the marks deeper, then cut through.
Happy forging!
+Cave of Skarzs Thank you for the help, I'll try it.
Something to remember is when your chiseling use the cutting table its what is meant for. But great work
you should make a ball pin hammer axe very cool video keep it up
Very cool knife indeed. Any of your file knives for sale?
newbie, for just a few months or so please bear with me? I know nothing about building knives, but have ALWAYS loved the craftsmanship. this vid blew me away. besides a "fish scale effect from the file, and filling in the divots, would this effect produce he same effect as a Damascus blade as far as strength? also, it would to me, (for hunting/fishing) make sense to leave the heavy file markings on the spine? sorry, I in no way know the terms. thank you for any answers! you rock, and the vid was so easy to watch. thank you.
+Michigan Mister This knife does not have any of the qualities of a Damascus knife which can have hundreds of folded and forge-welded layers. Whether to grind away or keep the file's original markings is mostly a matter of preference. In this case my hammering is irregular and uneven so the appearance of the file's markings, had I kept them, would be "blotchy" and marred by indentions from the hammer.
thanks, still an awesome tool. hope to see more?
Your knives are badass, I don't make knives nor really buy them (can't afford good ones) but your voice... Ohmahgurd lol white Morgan freeman
I was listening to you talk about stainless steel and was thinking to myself who needs all these alloys, just simple carbon steel for simple carbon people.
Hey , Birmingham represent
Is it typical to use a brine quench for file knives? Seems rather aggressive to me, but I'm just on the cusp of getting into blacksmithing. (My father was a metallurgist for almost 35 years & I know theory, but have little practical knowledge at this point.)
it is aggressive and risky.
with a rasp, do you grind to smooth and the rasp teeth still show? or if ground smooth the teeth are gone?
does that question make sense?
what temp should I heat up iron? my wife's pot broke and I wanted to see if I could make a knife outta it
Habe you put it through any hard testing? It looks like there's a lot of delanination. Great video tho, great ideas and not boring to watch!
+Cooper Landram there was a 2-3 mm area of delamination near the front of the forge weld towards the tip of the knife that was ground away . There really wasn't any other delamination. The lines seen are superficial to where the forge welds occurred as the spike metal was driven down into the file causing a divet that couldn't be closed because the piece couldn't be compressed lengthwise at forge welding temps to close that gap. It skated a file and was tempered from there, final hardness was in 55-60 HRC range.
Why is your anvil so quiet? Do you alter the audio or do the chains really do that well of a job?
did you bump your camera?
nice
If you need a furnace i can hook you up with my mixtape, that shit's hotter than the sun's core
+nprguyplayz I'll be the judge of that. Whats on it?
Only my #1 hits such as, "I just had sex with every woman alive", "i am a god and will never die" "I aint scared of nobody" and every ones favorite "I have 4 Bugatti's"
Tai Lopez, is that you?
here in my garage, just bought this new gerber knife, but you know what i like more than cheap junk? KNOWLEDGE
lol
Very nice blade, how long did it take you from start to finish?
+Exodo Siete 7 hours
I would call this "Spike mai" or "Raspascus"
That's creativity as opposed to the same old heating and banging. Using your noggin. Very cool blade. I'll email my address so you can send it to me ok? Thanks ahead of time lol.
Beautiful wok. Why don't you make a simple jig to give you the angle or angles you need for grinding your blade edges.
Do you have to pre anneal your file steel?
Something I have been wanting to know is, what kind of anvil do you use? Also for a beginner black smith who wants to makes knives and the like what sort of working surface do you think would be the best choice? Also from research I have found many anvils to be rather expensive, any recommendations as to that or is a, you pay for what you get in this sort of thing?
+Scott SUNBRO You get what you pay for with anvils. Railroad track is popular if you can find some cheap. People claim they forge on sledge hammer heads but that sounds like a lot of hassle. I've forged on large rocks before, see a few of my previous vids. Old vulcan anvils are about $200 used but not good quality - I use one. They are better than the inexpensive iron anvils that populate eBay, however.