Making a Cleaver From a Pick Axe (feat. Simple Little Life)
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Hiccups, as usual! It's a super-cool looking chopper and the mystery steel used to forge this pick axe made one heck of an edge. A suspect forge weld and what appears to be defective steel make this cleaver decorative only, however. It should be considered unsafe to use. Watch it chop a 2x4 before the edge is removed in preparation for its charity auction. I learned a lot and will likely revisit this project at a later date.
Hopefully I can pick up some stock removal tips from Jeremy at Simple Little Life soon. He's really nailed down all his processes! Thanks, everyone.
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Now I'm just imagining people sending you gifts all the time and you just look at them like... I'm gonna make this into a knife
Your voice is so soothing. Main reason why I watch your videos.
i agree
I don't know if you guys have played Fallout: New Vegas, but he kinda sounds like Boone :D
Gavin no. Boone sounds less happy and a little deeper abd slower
Jeremy is a ballsy one, wearing a ring on his finger!
My dad gave me a thing to fix, turned it I to a knife. I just found it so funny.
Ruby O'Neil
I love the way that Green Beatle works, he just works his way out of everything he does, not worring for problems and sometimes he does not measure or think a lot about some aspects of his proyects, what i also do sometimes, that´s why i love so much watching him work.
That fotage of the mini cleaver cures cancer i swear... so relaxing and satisfying
I like both cleavers and Jeremy does a good job on the mini cleaver, but at the same time I love the way you took a earth crunching cutting moving tool and forged it into a meat cutting slicing chopping tool . Both of you are some of my favorite knife makers, along with the Walt of Sorrells and Slevik of Telly
watching those smoke bubbles pop @ 10:43 was almost a soothing feeling
So because no one I've seen has said this yet, this build is so damn unique. Never would I've made a knife this way, but it's very creative.
I like that you left the makers mark in it.
Your work is extremely amazing, I wish I could afford one of your knives
Go to Simple Little Life's Channel, you will approve! czcams.com/channels/USzVcnVuH0lVzyZh7HPsTA.html
Agreed! I subbed SLL a long time ago! Great video, and great collab! Atb! ...Nathan
the lines in the steel are imperfections from the casting process. it won't be enough to break the knife.
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Green Beetle I would probably like simple little life's knife better if it was bigger
Loving the slow motion! Great video once again! :D
Really cool cleaver, but I think you underestimate the steel, it was made to be a pickaxe after all and those are used for chopping stone, I don't think meat and bone will be any issue...
Yellow- Harold so he actually misidentified it as a pickaxe (understandably) but in reality, it is a pick mattock. You can tell because of the adze end and the fact that it is a jam bit tool. Mattocks, specifically the adze end, are not designed to directly hit stone. It's a trail building tool and is made of much softer steel since it handles mostly dirt, root, and small rocks. Obviously that can be changed some through tempering, but he may be very accurate in doubting its ability to chop bone.
I think you made this project more difficult than it has to be. With that said it turned out to be a very good looking cleaver. Keep up the good work
I really like how you just take all these random and old things and just make them into bad ass pieces of weaponry
The kid in me, lol'd, the Dad in me Doh!'d "sorry Dad" 🔥👍😆
that's a very nice anvil you have there!
as always a pleasure to watch sir
Mr. Green i mentioned it on simple life, people here in mexico down south they use a leave spring from a car to make a machete, they are nice next time i go will take a picture for all you guys, great video 'cause i love to cook and well made thanks. And good job..... God bless.....
you be surprised on the things people do to car springs
Thank for answering bud and good job on what you do....
Bad ass shot of you quenching the wrench!!! New to your channel, and I love it!!!
For what it's worth, that was NOT a pickaxe! It was a pick mattock!
Great job!
Could you have cheated and welded the crack and made it a usable cleaver?
What a neat project. 👍🏾
"My dad brought me this pick axe to put a new handle on it, and since I never put a handle on a hammer or an axe of any kind before I decided to just make a knife out of it instead. Here you go dad, a knife you cannot use." Funny shit :D LOL
I love your content and how its straightforward and fascinating to watch. It just kills me to watch you use that grinder without a guard though...
awesome as always
Sweet work mate love it!
"help buy me a handle"
what now? He wanted him to make him a handle and put it on
You do awesome work
Thanks for more frequent videos
i love that you saved the writing! great job bouth of you :)
no disrespect both are great but the other dude assembled a knife and you MADE a knife..cool video!
Now you're going to have to forge a new pick axe for your dad. Make it better and stronger. You have the technology!
don't be afraid to use the welder to fix cracks and little imperfections! Just weld over them and keep on working no problem !!
Beautiful!
Really awesome!!
very nice work bro
Lol, you might as well build a pickaxe for your dad.
I'll make one for him from a cleaver.
+Green Beetle recently I watched I think his name is mike Heinz, build a "Damascus" wooden knife. I was wondering if for your next project try a "Damascus" style knife with a Damascus handle.
I've never seen it done before and believe you can make it. It would look amazing!!! Just like your fishing hook knife with a Damascus looking handle
Phillip Taylor That would be interesting. Maybe damascus scales with with countersunk hex hed screws and rubber spacers to reduce the shock.
dayum, I enjoy green beetle
Nah make one from a section of railroad
Would've been neat if you'd forge welded the whole blade to make a Damascus cleaver. You ever try wet forging? I think it would help minimize inclusions, helping get rid of slag.
Very cool! I'd love to try metalsmithing one day.
Great work man, you're modest but considering how ambitious those folds were I'd say it came out stunning.
Bit off more than I can chew. I wish there was more confidence to be had in the steel and that one weld. But it's still got charm and I dig it. Best of all I learned something.
Great Vid!
your voice is so soothing
great video!
massive, love it
could you do a video explaining your anvil stand and your method of connecting your anvil to your stand? I am in the process of building a blacksmith shop with my dad, and right now we are trying to figure out an anvil stand.
It's a purchased cliff carol anvil stand with horse stall mat on top. anvil is 143 lbs and anchored to the stand only by wrapping two 20 foot chains around the anvil and base
Stunning! Id much prefer yours purely because i love work in a forge, shame the steel was shit though but what can you do... Keep up the work man, You got me into knifemaking!
The narration is good, and I like the humor, but the main thing I like about your videos is how you try repurposing steel from something functional and keeping it functional and looking aged at the same time.
Dad: “Hey son, you think you could put a handle on this ole pick-axe for me?”
Son: “Sure dad, no problem!”
Dad walks out.
Son: “Screw that...I’m making me a CLEAVER!!”
My kinda guy! 👊🏽
Somebody tell this Simple little life guy that working with power tools with a ring on is EXTREMELY dangerous.
Migrant why
jeepers creepers look up "degloving." Don't wear jewelry, watches, or rings, or have long hair around rotating machinery.
Yeah, how about we NOT recommend people look up horrific crap in order to get a proper idea? Short version for what lucky few that this message will reach, degloving is when entire sections of your skin are peeled/ripped off, with the iconic one being most of your hand's skin resulting in a new skin glove lying elsewhere in the shop. Yeah, you don't wanna see any pictures.
@@ember3579 I know this is late, but sometimes horrific accidents need to be shown in order for people to truly understand the nature of what can happen. I work in the oilfield, and they've shown us some gnarly training videos to let what can truly happen when something goes wrong sink in. Not only that, we get fleetwide accident reports, and most of the time, they show photos of the actual incident, again, to make reality sink in about what can happen.
Like Brady said below, you could have MIG welded that small flaw before you ground and it would have closed that up invisibly... and provided solid bond.
Dan Downey no mig welder
Well, that 'splains it! Still an awesome job. Kudos to you.
The problem with that particular steel was where it was made...India. The bulk of the steel, (inner core) is most likely is a poor quality or low grade steel with a thin outer layer of somewhat better steel. Basically its a cheaply made import for people who are only going to use it very few times for light work & don't want to pay more than $10-$15 for a pickaxe. They can be found in a lot of big box stores & hardware store chains at a cheap price and marketed as "forged steel" to give the impression of quality. I know that because I'm one of them cheap folks that's bought one just to use on a couple of "light duty", around the yard projects. I sure wouldn't use mine for any serious, heavy duty application. I'd be afraid it'd break before the handle would...lol
Any chance you would be interested in making another one of these for sale? Brother is a chef and I think this would be a great gift!
Uriah Siner n
Handle shape was already there in the eyelet.
But Excellent job! Great forging work.
10:29 Fantastic videophotography.
Awesome stuff by both channels man. Cool to see another cleaver build I recently built one if you get time check it out and let me know what you think as I did use a method I was told wouldn't work 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
man you could buy one for 15 dollars in china town and keep your dad happy too.
but this is fun for him
I think you should have done a different handle but it's still looks reallly good
Very cool - awesome
What's your next project, Jimi?
I'm giving a second life to a bench, but after that another secret collaboration.
(after he water quenches the spike)"This pickaxe has what looks like some kind of coating so I'm going to remove as much of this as possible, it could be pretty hazardous if we stuck that in the forge."😂😂😂
I was wondering about the quality of the steel when I saw the "INDIA" on the side of the pick mattock. The lines you are seeing are inclusions from "dirty" steel. When steel is heated and worked either through rolling or forging the outer surface cools first. The non metallic inclusions have a lower melting temperature and tend to migrate to the middle of the piece where they collect. As you work the metal the inclusions get stretched out into stringers and sometimes flakes. the stringers are not as much of a problem but the flakes can cause de laminations. Either form will be detrimental if it occurs on the cutting edge. Cool cleaver but crappy steel. GIGO at its finest.
Thanks for being honest Steve, I honestly was thinkin' " Damn, this kids turning into a STUD!"
honest question: would you ever consider "V" ing out the bad section and MIG welding and finishing before Heat Treat to make it a usable knife?
BTW- Jeremy is I great guy and I consider him a friend. I give him a lot of trouble as much as possible.
I want both of them
If you look in the description in the category it says sports....
Pretty
10:26 I am an ENGINEER!
You should of put some clay on the spine and get some of that sweet hamon line
love your builds. Is your burner home made or did you buy it. I'm having issues with the one I made being able to get up to temp to forge weld.
I ' m from Solingen to :)
too
Do you think it would have worked out better if you had separated the blade at the eye, split the eye, forged the eye down to width, forge welded the handle to the blade. Maybe added a couple of pins at the weld for added stability. It looked like all the bending really abused the steel.
I have an old mattock laying around and I'm thinking of trying this one out.
Anything other than what I did would have worked out better!
Green Beetle you could have put a new handle and won't been better
That is a beautiful cleaver a real shame about the imperfections in the steel.
Hey does anyone know the name or make of the last belt grinder the guy in the Simple Life clip was using?
like" for efforts + art + skills
what are you gonna make next?
hey green beetle can you please try heat blueing a knife??
would buy the knife if i had the money but still in school studing
Hi I'm your 97,000 subscriber
thought it was worth while telling u I came from simple little life +1 sub
I'm not all for correcting people but that's a paxel not a pickaxe
will the heat treat stop the steel from rusting? im thinking about the edge primarily
Ugleskjegg nope it will still rust but you can oil it up to prevent rust. most commonly used carbon steels (like O1 for example) will rust
How long did it take to do that cleaver
Well.... The pick-axe looked like a cast-forged steel. You are probably seeing a cast line.
Топор хорошенький вышел. Для кухни не заменимая вещь. особенно мясо с костьми рубить.
relaxed vid, i like it and the knife to….
Looks like a mattock, not a pickaxe. Used for breaking up earth
sounds like Charlie Sheen narrated this
Tyler King thought that exact same thing on The first video of his that I watched
Ha steamy hot steel
Did you end up giving the cleaver to your Dad as a gift? What was his reaction?
Can you harden and temper black plumbing pipe?
no
I want to make a large spindle roughing gouge. a length section of 1 3/8 black pipe would be perfect.
Glen Nicholson I'm sure you could make a gouge from pipe, it would just need constant sharpening.
Hehe, yeah, I tried. Constant sharpening is right. It looked cool but wasn't at all practical. :)
What's the borax used for ?
Flux
eBay link is broken
The link should take you to the main store page, scroll to bottom. Or try this: www.ebay.com/itm/100-to-Charity-Cleaver-Forged-From-a-Pick-Axe-/302098691014?hash=item46567c33c6:g:wWwAAOSwOyJX9wmJ
Awesome cleaver! It's a shame it has to be decorative with all the work you did but hey that's a fine piece of art! Amazing that came from a pick axe
Unsafe? it was a pickaxe for God's sake, i'd chop down a tree with this cleaver.
why did you use the brush around 7:50
to scrape the scale off of the blade
Can you use a I beam for a anvil?
Wyatt Gentry yes
Thanks
Mattock.
Aww but an old style pickaxe would've been a cool thing to restore, instead of forge in to something else
Devon Parker eh it wasn't made by hand it was most likely made in a factory.
Much respect to you and your amazing work. Simple Little Life should reevaluate the music choices for videos. That shit was weak as fuck. Other than that, very impressive smithing, and thanks for sharing!
It would look better if it was all polished up
خیلی عالی 👍👍👍👍👍👍
how do you become a master smith mr beetle smith sir?
I suppose that depends on how one defines master smith (blacksmith, bladesmith, farrier, etc) and whether or not one is interested in organizational / institutional recognition. For the ABS you can go to their website for info on how to become recognized by them as a journeyman then master blade smith.