Blacksmithing Part 13 Forging a Knife Step 3 Heat Treat and Testing

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okay guys trying to keep with tradition on this knife as much as I'm tempted to use my oven at 400 degrees for an hour to temper this knife I'm going to try to do it the old way I'm not going to use a torch I'm going to use my Forge so right now I'm trying to reduce the temperature of this board by stirring a bunch of new coal and stuff in here and stirring up the coat and then I'm going to turn the air blast off of it I'm going to lay the plate on top of that coal pile and watch the color hopefully I can pull it out in time for nothing but straw yellow to get to the blade if the spine is blue that's okay but I don't want the blade to get any more than straw yellow where the grind is don't stir this pot up here and then I'm going to turn the air off on it and just kind of clear it all the coal way readjust the camera hopefully we kind of watch what's going on here I'm going to let it spine down because that's the part I want to get the hottest and then we're just going to kind of let the thing sit and watch the collar see what happens

definitely got some heat there but it's not crazy heat I may act very similar to an oven

I blow just a little bit of air kill it here just to keep it nice and hot okay guys well here's our knife and I have not tested the striker portion of it yet I wanted to work on the blade a little bit and you know I'm gonna have to start off pretty rough with this thing to get it where I want it I was kind of polishing it up just a little bit first with the wire brush and some steel wool just to kind of see where I was and then I will start with a coarse stone of course when you're starting with something like this you're starting all over again you know I generally don't even carry a sharpening stone I just carry a diamond rod because you know a great knife maker able eyes once told me that you sharpen your knife one time and you hone it forever so if all I'm going to do is hone mine know if I can do that with a diamond rod and it keeps my path on your knife and my butcher knife really really sharp as well as my mores so now that we're ready to start sharpening this we're gonna have to start with a stone and I've got my bucket of oil down here so that I can dip the knife blade in oil and just start to take strokes go in both directions try to keep my grind angle by or my angle that I'm looking for to sharpen it and I'll go about 20 strokes in each direction clean it off take a look at it maybe move on to a smoother stone or stay with the rough stone but won't bore you with all the details of this but I'm going to walk through it until I get to the finest stone I've got and then I'm going to go to a diamond rod I could have done this on a buffing wheel sanding belt things like that like they're doing knife shops but I really wanted to stay with pretty much what would I have you know in a longer term self-reliant scenario I might have an oven to heat treat this thing in but then again am i nice I might not have electricity I know I'm going to have steel wall I know I'm going to have sharpening utensil things like that that would be always part of a long-term self-reliant scenario so I know I'm going to have that kind of stuff with me so we'll get this thing sharpened up and we'll see how she does here okay guys here's our completed knife last test to see if shut those arcs I hope you guys can see that don't amount no coconuts showing up on camera I assume it is so our striker works we've got a deer leg rawhide sheath here it's just a deer leg turn inside out and dried sewing up the side cut off and then turn flapped over and dried that's the sheath to this knife so we've done the fingernail test for sharpness to make sure that it will shave fingernail and it does that no problem when I use wood to see if a knife is sharp or if it can make small shavings things like that I don't like to use soft woods like cottonwoods and poplars and things like that because that's just too easy so a resinous piece of fat wood pine like this is usually a pretty good test and if I can get pretty fine shavings on that then I'm going to be pretty happy because you got a lot of resin in that you can see it's not doing too bad for sure and there's a lot of resident now you tell by how orange that is so I stick gooey stuff to try to push through the knife blade and they're still doing a pretty good job of getting good curls off of that I'd say that's definitely I can feel the resin on there sticking to the blade so that's definitely gonna do the job not a bad first attempt picks my hand a whole lot better now you got a little bit of knurling left on that file right there you tuck your finger right in there for working it's pretty comfortable where you can hold it back here choke up on it for skinning and such I'm pretty happy this will go good with any traditional type kit guys I appreciate you joining me for the series of videos on how to make a knife how to make a hand-forged knife like I said this is my first attempt in a Colt Forge I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out

I appreciate your views I appreciate your support I thank you for everything you do for me for my school and for my family I'll be back with more wilderness and self-reliance long-term skills as soon as I can guys thanks you