I have always loved being creative and working with my hands. From working on bicycles as a kid to motorcycles and cars, woodworking and welding as i got older. Around 2017 i wanted to learn about blacksmithing and took a few leasons making hooks and bottle openers. I went out and purchased a forge and anvil, made a dozen or so hooks and openers, and everything sat for years. In 2020, I went to a hammer-in that a friend of mine was competing in. I went home and made a couple of neck knives after watching a bunch of videos from a lot of the same people you did. And wellllll... we know what happens after that... don't we 💰💰💰💰 Great videos. Putting together videos is my nemesis 😁
Haha yes, we absolutely know what happens next! lol... Its not what i would call a money making hobby despite popular belief. lo That said, it offers a lot of satisfaction and I'm to the point that its at least paying for itsself. lol I have a love/hate relationship with making videos.. Sometimes I'm into it and sometimes its like pulling teeth. It definitely slows everything down a great deal, but I also love sharing things. I'm adhd AF and so I'm VERY good at starting projects, but not the best at finishing them and sometimes knowing I need to film will actually prevent me from going out to finish a project.. Its... Well... I'm learning. lol
@creativeguiseproductionsma454 very true. It's actually a little scary on how slow some makers have said it's been. Will you be at Blade Show Atlanta next month?
@@shakesforge If you asked me a month ago I was absolutely going... Now I'm kind of debating with myself.. I haven't fully committed... Last year was my first experienc and I loved it, but it is such a long weekend and I have so much going on here.. I'm still debating. lol
@creativeguiseproductionsma454 yeah, I understand that. This will be my 4th year. I don't have a table, but I help a few friends watch their tables here and there when they need to step away.
@@shakesforge Yea, I really just go to be social.. I met so many cool people last year.. Now I'm leaning towards going. This comment thread has just cost me hundreds of dollars, probably thousands.. lmao Weren't we just talking about spending money? lmao !!! Its all your fault! If I do end up going, hopefully we run into eachother - probably in the pits with beverages, which is the best way! :)
@@vgr123 Yep, its outside and covered... I have a four car garage. Behind the four car garage is a covered area the length of the garage and about 20 feet out. There are two sections separated by an old horse stall that is not in use. One side is my outdoor gym, the other side is the outdoor portrion of my shop.... I''m in central Florida, so I don't have to worry about the cold and my garage isn't air conditioned so the heat is going to be there no matter what. This way, I didn't have to build out a dedicated grinding room, I don't care about the metal dust that gets everywhere. And th motorcycles are a little safer in the garage this way. lol
I want to make a chef's knife from 1080 but does it cut well?? and how fast does it rust ? but 1080 is the only scrap steel i have at the moment?? would you recommend it??
Its certainly not the best steel for kitchen cuttlery, but it will certainly cut well providing the geometry is correct, or at least close to it. lol 1080 along with all high carbon steels will rust if not taken care of and will patina no matter what you do. Basically, just keep it dry, and put a little food safe oil on it inbetween uses and it'll last you a lifetime. Personally I like it when I want a hamone on the blade, that's literally the only reason. lol Oh, and its SUPER easy to heat treat.. I mean, you kind of have to work pretty hard to screw up the heat treat on 1080.
Well I'll say this... That failure looks a lot better than a lot of mine lol and if you're looking for info on tantos you should check out island blacksmith and Walter sorrells... As for the saya (scabbard) try making a saya nomi chisel to carve it out... Once again island blacksmith has a few videos using it and one video forging it... Keep it up, doing great 👍
@@creativeguiseproductionsma454 in my experience, sometimes it's best to put a project aside for a bit then out of nowhere, I'll have revelation and know exactly what to do... I'm sure you'll come up with something
Awesome knife, I love that profile and the hamon came out great! As a word of caution, you shouldn't put your thumb on the back of the hammer handle when striking as it can really mess up your ligaments in your hand/wrist/forearm in the long term. I know it helps with accuracy on the strikes, but you would highly recommend getting out of that habit.
I started as a kid. Off and on building things. My father is a carpenter. I’ve build wood stuff and traps and nets all the bushcrafty stuff. Then started knives. When I got older I wanted to try building them again but realized you have to have money to get tooling. So I began making them to sell to get more tools to build them. And down the rabbit hole I went.
I moved to Central Florida from Central Indiana... I feel your pain, or at leat I have felt your pain... I have ZERO interst in that weather anymore. lol
I’ve been successful with 52100…same way as you did it but I completely submerged it in the oil till completely cool to the touch so the heat dose t travel from the spine and ruin the hamon. Great video though brotha! 🔪❤️
Great video brotha! How do you keep the white on the handle so clean? Every time I use ivory or white micarta it always stains and I can’t sand or buff it out 😢
Honestly, I'm not sure. lol.. I hand sand it to 1000 grit and hit it on the buffer. lol I think the times I've had issues with staining, it was dirt getting caught in spots that I didn't quite get sanded well enough, so dirt gets caught in the scratches from lower grits. Thanks so much man!
I bought one last year and it was faulty, one of the magnets that hold the clamp was set too deep so it wouldn't hold the clamp in place. The replacement was better, but there is too much play in everything due to them using plastic. I can't fit my Cold steel Master hunter in it as it has too much movement in the clamp. It seems ok for folding knives with blades at 4 inches or less, but the clamp still needs supporting during use.
Yep. I have the same sharpener. Gave up on it after all the modifications I made to it so that it would actually work. The first of many problems, is it’s too light. So you have to hold the base down but soon realize that you need that other hand to hold the adjustment in position because it drifts out on the sloppy worm screw and plastic threads. So I screwed the base down to a board and clamped it down to my workbench. (I’m stubborn so I eventually solved every problem) The angle adjustment doesn’t lock in place on either guide, so I made a couple plastic shims and would tap them into the space between the guides and the riser rods. Now it’s locked. The next problem is easily seen in your video. The blade clamp has just enough flex to throw off the angle as you can see happening while you sharpened/dulled your knife. So I cut a block of wood that fit between the blade clamp and the base to keep it from flexing downward as you put pressure on it. Then I picked up a digital angle finder that cost twice as much as the sharpener itself, because I knew the angle markings on the machine were wrong. I ignored the markings and went with the angle finder. Now the worksharp was actually working well. I made perfect edges on all my knives! But if you thought using this sharpener was a pain before, try it with all the modifications that have to be removed to flip the knife over or change angles? Now it’s a project. And by the time I was happy with the results, the stones were worn out. So I gave up and spent the $400 bucks for a real sharpener. The TS PROF KADET PRO, is sort of the same style sharpener but it’s all metal, heavy, precise, and everything locks in place with zero movement. And you can sharpen blades as long as a machete or as small as a tiny pen knife. This is a precision machine where the worksharp is a toy. It’s expensive but well worth it if you want a perfect edge without all the screwing around. Thanks for the video, I do feel your pain brother. 🤙🏼
You're a better man than me! lol.. Its just been sitting on my shelf for a couple years.. I literally only pulled it down because I thought it deserved a better chance.. I was wrong. lol.. Its back on the shelf now.. I have a hard time throwing things away. lol
I appreciate it! I'm definitely targeting hardworking home cooks who love to cook for their family... I don't know why, I just feel like those are "my people." lol
Not a fun process at all and you see the start/stop of each stroke on your blade. Plus these are only really usable on small knives. Of course I'm partial to using a 2x72 and a rail sharpening system like the Perfect Blade attachment. 😜
