knife blacksmithing part 1 and 2 

awesome video. i love the set up u have. i wish i had the kind of anvil and forge u have. good job.

great video, every day i learn more and more. one of these days gon start to hammering miself:) keep it up good work:)

i like the improvised flatter.im gonna have to try and get something like that.keep on forging.

That's pretty cool. I'm twelve and getting into blacksmithing, and am planning to make some knives in the future.

I enjoyed how much of the "work" you actually showed however a small commentary of what you are doing would be great....I am a homeschooling mother and you might be suprised at how many of us home-educators look for videos like this to help teach Colonial life in America....Westward Expansion and how early American Settlers from other countries came and brought their trades to our country. Love to hear how you learned your trade and such. Thanks for posting.

very true... unless of of course you have an outdoor smithy. it's nice not having to worry about it, but i have to watch the weather.

Cool video, I started about a year ago. Have you ever noticed how much iron there is in an old car that works great for blacksmithing? The springs are nice but a pain in the ass to get straight. :)

Its nice...! :)

hehe i wish i had fire proof gloves :P but infact its just a matter of timing how long you can hold your hand over the fire and having a good thick leather glove ^^

Hey man, that was awesome. Ive been interested in blacksmithing lately and would like to know how to get into it some. Im only 15 and will need to know quite a bit of info.

nice anvil

You are far better then me in blacksmithing, but... WRAP A CHAIN AROUND YOUR ANVIL!!!!!!!!!!

well, if you have the right coal and put a "blower" or something to provide you with a decend air flow trough your grill.. maybe you could get it pretty high up. try it? its worth a try... :P but i dont know how your grills looks or works soo. its hard to tell

@TheWaggaBloke the "tapping is a good habit as it allows your hand to unclench and relax in between strikes giving longevity to the blacksmith. It is also a good habit if you are not rushed because it allows you to think about the product.

@snozmom4 hey, thanks for the comment, always nice to hear from someone whos mature and doesnt Yap about small details :) well i learned my trade from a guy i met who had been blacksmithing for 10 years. and i spend a lot of evenings at his place where he tought me the basics. and ive read a lot of books. and as always looked up stuff on the internet :)

WOW i want that glove fireproof OMG

Mm okay, ill try that :P thanks

Your eyes, hoss. I see everyone's point about eye protection, but it's your decision. I mean, if I want to ride a motorcycle without helmet, I'm more apt to get my head bashed in, but the only person I'm going to hurt is me. So, if you don't want to wear eye protection, go for it. You're not going to blind anyone else. Now, if someone else is watching, you might ant to get them to wear some, but I'm with you, eye protection is a personal choice.

mostly it's to keep a rythem.. but its also to get the tension out of the hammer.

Great video, enjoyed it. But whats with the man-handling of the fire? You don't have to control the fire with your hand to look big!.. I wouldn't mess with ya :p Good work, keep it up!

hmm it depends on how strong your arm is ;) the hammer i use most of the time is around 2 lb i think its easier to strike a lot of light and precise blows than a few hard unprecise blows :P but thats just me ^^

thank you :) well.. im pretty sure i saw a iron casting video in here on sometime.. try searching on iron casting or iron melting. Good luck ;)

hehe yea i have a few springs my self, but until i run out of old steel plows, ill use thoes ;) they are good quality steel

keep a rythm and to relieve the hammer of stress, i was told by my master :)

hope you've got good ventilation if your burning coal. the sulfur in the coal turns into sulfuric acid when it hits your lungs...

@danthman114 It can be done pretty cheap actually,. you can find lots of recepies on how to make a homemade forge with simple stuff like a vaccum machine which also blows and a fire. and just find a piece of H or I steel to use as anvil. try your local scrapyard :)

wont that make my Anvil magnetized too?

well.. First time i picked up the hammer and starting smithing was.. 2 years ago.. although it wasnt very often in the start. i have school until 1th of july and then i have some couple of months with nothing but blacksmithing and carving runes :) so i dont know if i have some great "gold drops" of knowledge for ya.. but ill be happy to ask :)

Ahahahah... have a good work!!!

i use blacksmithing coal. Just try typing it in on your browser and see if you find any :) if you have a local blaksmith or someone nearby at least, they'll know how and where to get it ^^

well.. i think ill rebuild my anvil stand and have some metal parts around the anvil foot :D that too will make the pinging sound go away

Umm, I'ts not only the ability, making a katana is a big process, first you need a forge enough hot to make the steel really really hot, another thing is that you'll need a machine or a team to make one, because it is really dificult almost impossible making it alone, cause when you make it slowly, each time you get the metal red hot, you give stress to it and at last it is a bad steel piece that can get broken in any time, I'm not trying to say that he can't make it, but is something difficult

a hood over my forge.. well that something ive been working on for some time :P its only in the start when theres a lot of smoke that i really need a hood.. the rest of the time its not that of a problem.. but yea :P i would prefere a hood so i wouldnt have to go out of my workshop in the startup :P

No sadly :P but ive made a few junk-yark swords.. useing a grinder and steel and a hammer for bending it into a sabre... ive never uploaded thoes videos.. dont think anyone whould want to watch them :P

Well.. maybe :p havent thought about it.. But i DO know.. from my Blacksmithing master.. that it was best to have a Rythem when you BS. Most blacksmiths have a rythem, and some dont seem to have one :) So i mostly do it as a habbit because its give the whole thing a rythem thats easy to follow when you stand there for 4-5 hours ;)

well thanks :P i do my best. but a good job? well. ive always said to my self that if i lived in the middleages or for just a 100 years ago.. i would have become a blacksmith.. but nowadays, its too hard to make a living from blacksmithing.

heh well, if you got a good glove, you dont really feel the heat :P but i cant use my gloves anymore since they have been worn out :P And it is worth mentioning that i dont hold my hand in the fire for more than a few seconds :) And the flattening rig.. well.. kinda insane actually.. i got a piece of metal on my eye so i was hammering with one eye only. I wont be useing that Rig again anytime soon.

@uChakide its from keep stress from building up in the hammer

A question, why do you tap the anvil in between strikes? Is it to cool the hammer or just blacksmith habit? Just curious.

@corrosivetrip hahaha couldnt agree more xD well i just kinda did this for my own sake and for fun :P and no i would never in a million year sell any of my crap knives. Im not anywhere near that good. i guess i just wanted to show some people that if you wanted to try and blacksmith.. its very much possible and it can be done with very simple tools. i was just so lucky to get an anvil from my uncle ^^

Nope, just plain ordinary workmans glove :) but ofc with leather on the insides.

@WCBlacksmiths Yea. i can only say that ive improved the whole safety situation alot since this old video ^^

ive solved that problem now :P but... aint the high sounds a part of the blacksmithing experience ^^ witin the next month there will .. *cough* be some new videos.. :)

How come you tap the anvil a few times after you hit the work piece. Is it to like stop the ringing noise or something.

@varmdal YOU NEED TO VENT YOUR SMOKE, SIR

so is that just charcol you put in there

Oh.. for about a year now. But it has been kinda slow, ill admit that much :P its hard to get the time with homework and all.. but i try :)

@TheWaggaBloke he taps on the anvil to keep slag from building up on the hamer... mate

@danthman114 all you need is a forge and anvil and a hammer 2/3ib cross or ball pin best off making your own if moneys tight just as good

how does tapping it remove stress? sorry im new and i know/understand literally NOTHING about blacksmithing :P

@danthman114 its gonna cost a whole lotta time and a fairly big chunk of coin if you're plannin on doin it for a livin. fuckin around in ur garage or what not, yea u can do it cheap and make all kinds of junk for ur friends to look at. to do it for a living requires more creativy, hard work, and fortitude than most ppl have

hahahaha yea i know im a mean mofo :P lol nah.. its just to keep the coal in place :P everytime i put it in it spreads out.. kinda anoying ;)

@varmdal youre a good man varmdal! actually i gotta lil somethin you just might be interested in. ill throw ya a PM in the next day or two. none of that rant was directed at you, of course, but you know exactly what im talkin about anyway. /shudder

@firelord3377 You know... I thought Germans were pretty smart people... but you prove me wrong.

thanks :) and yea.. it is the greatest hobby in the world, if you ask me ;) but i wouldnt call it cool..hot perhaps? :P

YOU NEED A COWL

i quess if you were to make a living from it.. then yes. i KNow a guy who lives from doing it, he survives.. but he aint rich ;)

@TheWaggaBloke Why would i do that?..mate

around 110 kg

around 110 kg :)

its called bladesmithing not "knife blacksmithing"

what the hell is your problem?

@firelord3377 You make a better forging video than this guy before you talk shit about other people's videos. If you didn't like it there's always the exit button.

no? thats just plain stupid.

@firelord3377 what the fuck is wrong with you dude? i never said i was a blacksmith master. and im not american. i know im a bad blacksmith i dont need you to tell me. But why just post this kind of crap?