As well as being interesting and informative, this is also a really beautiful piece of film-making. Great camerawork and editing. Well done to all involved...

Beautiful work. Reminds me of my Father's welding and Blacksmith shop. He had it back in the 1950's to 2010. A long time of metalworking!

Wonderful story, what is the name of your fathers blacksmith shop ?

you must have been able to see some great stuff being made!

🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️

Can you tell me the materials used in the video and how to use And thank you

I have been a welder/fabricator for 40 years and in that time I have seen 3 men lose an eye. One to a burst cutting disc and two to steel shards coming off a grinder. I have been to the hospital myself more than once to have my eyeball scraped despite always wearing a screen or safety glasses. Don't risk your eyesight

Funny you mention that that's literally the first thing that I noticed and what kept distracted me from what he was actually doing :-) where is his eye protection?

It's so much fun when they start poking at your eyeball with a needle. I've been there more than once. I wear safety glasses more often now.

Agreed. PPE has been so enforced on me from early years of shop class and working for my stepfather’s construction company, that I will not even cut the grass without safety glasses. I guess his squint technique is impregnable 😅.

I do lapidary work most of my time, I've had a ton of close calls and I can say that polycarbonate ballistics lens are worth it.

Damn I needed to see this

I agree with the others here. Safety glasses will save your eyesight. I use to work in a machine shop and my eyesight was saved from hot flying shards of metal at least twice. One time, the metal hit my glasses so hard that my safety glasses went flying off my face but I escaped without injury.

Not to mention toxic fumes

Protecting his clothing with an apron, but not caring for his eyes.

Angle grinder, no guard.

​@lordhexon။😊 ၉ ။။။ ု ူ ယဉ်။ ယယ ။

Yeah, I'm just a structures & sheet metal aircraft mechanic, but I've had my safety glasses knocked off my face a few times in 20 years by things that would've likely ended my career. However, it's hard to imagine this guy with them on.

Its odd to me someone with so much talent and knowledge is not using eyewear. I used to be a machinist and even with glasses on little shards of metal would make it into my eye area and scare the crap out of me.

I was cutting angle iron on the chop saw in the shop one day, wearing glasses as always, and a hot piece of steel shot off the back of the saw blade, and bounced off the wall behind the chop saw with the perfect trajectory required to drop right in over my glasses (which were not completely snug to my face), landing directly in my left eye just on the edge of the iris. Fortunately, this crazy path the metal took meant it wasn't flying as fast (nor was it as hot) as it could have been, so it went no deeper than the outer cornea. Cue an immediate trip to urgent care to get the metal drilled out of my eye (which is a shitty experience, if you don't mind me saying so), followed by days of prescription eyedrops, pain and discomfort. Moral of the story: wear your $%&!ing safety glasses! Preferably ones that sit tight to the face.

i got a nice puncture dead center of my right eye from cutting a zip tie. the perfect shot that you think could never happen.

Agreed definitely strange that a dude with this guys skill level doesn’t wear safety glasses, all it takes is one tiny piece of hot metal to hit you in the eye and if your lucky it just hurts like a SOB and unlucky you lose an eye? And you only have 2 of them!! There not like baby teeth they won’t grow back!!!! Great work man!!!

@Michael Davis I used to de-bur steel dyes in a machine shop and even with the glasses snug I would feel the metal shavings hitting all around my eye, and I was lucky but I heard of a guy in the shop who got a shaving in his eye and similarly to you they had to grind the little metal chip out of his eye which to me sounds odd. I would think they would maybe tweezer it out or something. Yeah its an odd video in that the guy is really talented it would seem but in diametric opposite irony he is portraying the most ludicrous foolish actions in not wearing the safety glasses. I am wondering if maybe he wants to have his face clear for the camera in his u utube video. I dont want to judge because I have done a lot of dumb dump truck type stuff in my life but still in making a video for the public I think responsibility would be in showing the public he respects safety, (for the young kid watching this as he is essentially a role model of sorts) maybe he is another superman and he shoots lasers out of his eyes and has nothing to worry about, hes just making a knife on his day off and saving lois lane and fighting the taliban is his day job. peace safety first always right see you my name is Darren and I am from canada

I find NOTHING in this entire thread I can argue with. Moving on...

Amazing work, very impressive and a true mastery of the craft. But bro...safety glasses and hearing protection please! I'd love to see you doing this for many many more years!

Só!!!? Então e as luvas que nada têm a ver com o trabalho efetuado? E a aspiração dos fumos da soldadura!!? Quanto ao resto convenhamos que o senhor tem jeito.

Baby steps bro, he only just started using a welding helmet 😆

Great project. Thanks for the detailed video. The one thing I would REALLY stress to you though is you should be using safety shields or spectacles, polycarbonate impact resistant, over your eyes when you're pounding metal on metal or grinding or basically doing any of the things you're doing in the video. I'm an Ophthalmologist and long ago lost count of the people who lost vision or lost their eyes from metal shards going in the eye, grinder wheels blowing up, etc., etc. Please protect yourself. You have wonderful talents, and one weird/bad thing happening to you could change your life. Thanks for your work, and please keep them coming.

Good point. pick axe on concrete.... my plastic lens specs saved mine more than once.

This comment deserves a LOT more love! Eye protection is essential!

WHAT EVER

After I started reading this I noticed he was bare faced, I’ve only casually watched videos like these but it seems pretty important to wear facial protection 😮

the project is interesting, but the lack of eye protection made the video bad...

Amazing work on the knife ! I would love to have one that you made !

Just bought a handmade Damascus cleaver at an antique store and that’s why I’m here. Impressive and very satisfying work sir!

Beautiful work mate - would you by chance, make a knife profile (same size/Tanto, etc) or something like this one to sell? Thanks for sharing your work. Blessings~

Muito bom trabalho! Nota 100

That was absolutely fascinating to watch, very skilled at your craft. But I have to admit, it seemed a bit risky doing all of this without safety glasses. But other than that, great job and thanks for sharing this very entertaining video.

Come on.....striking red hot steel with a heavy hammer on an anvil.....what could possibly go wrong??😆

Muito bom.

@Mike Rieck what do you mean he's got his safety squints on

Agreed!

This video is brought to you by 3m safety glasses

Nice work. Wondering how come you didn't fold end over end without resorting to the cutting. Question: Did you skate the blade with a known file type (RC 45-50-55-60) to see where it is on the hardness scale? I'm not picking, just asking. Your work is beautiful and it takes time for everything to work out right. Don't let the amateurs grind you down. Keep working, you're ahead of me.

What’s the white powder he keeps putting on the metal?

@Ruby Glimmberg Flux. It cleans the metal to help it weld together.

It doesn’t really “clean” the metal. Flux prevent oxidation which cause scale which prevents the forge welds from setting. This leads to delamination.

Borax!

@Kevin P keeps oxides from forming, which cause or include problems down range… de lamination or cold joints. All things considered, pretty damn good forge welds

Ficou muito boa hem !!! Deu muito trabalho mais ficou sensacional!! Parabéns 👏👏

This could be a great idea because drills are typically made of pretty top grade metal depending on what kind of drill it was intended.

Fun fact: The first Tomahawks were actually reforged wood rasps that the blacksmiths would buy by the barrel full from shipbuilders. These "Trade Hawks" would still have the small bumps from the rasp teeth and buyers would refuse to buy the hawk if it didn't have the bumps.

Hats off to the patience.. never thought that a knife would take so much hard work and time to build..

Really? Then check out making swords and scimitars. Residual stress makes the blades even sharper.

Le Katana giapponesi ( e i coltelli top) hanno una realizzazione ancora più lunga ( vengono ripiegate molte volte )

Well this was an exquisitely inefficient way to make a knife. Most of the effort went into welding the drill bits. As far as fit and finish goes, the knife itself still has a long way to go.

You should see traditional katana smithing with tamahagane

​@mrkiky show us some of your work. I would honestly like to see what level you are on.

Trabalho de mestre. Parabéns.

Incredible how much hard work is needed to make a handcrafted knife! Respect to this man and all the others they do such difficult jobs!

lol sorry to bust your bubble, but not all knives are made out of old drill bits.

​@Victorious Villusorious Why?

They don't normally do it this way. I believe this video was created for clicks. Great talent but Amazon has knives for 10 bucks with lifetime warranties. I would feel cheated if I gave the guy 10 bucks for his knife, but it was only made out of drill bits lol. I don't understand the reasoning behind the video unless you are trying to display that you can recycle steel. This is how all blacksmiths do this.

great skill loved the deftness and eye with the heavy hammer and can you just imagine how the old blacksmiths crafted beautiful items like swords and knives etc that have lasted hundreds of years without electricity the mind boggles

Please don't underestimate the creativity of your ancestors! They had heavy hammers to mass produce the swords for the kings, where there is a will there is a way. They were using crude means of power but they knew how to turn gears and use them to power their furnaces and equipment. We've just become soft....

@Jason Sparks as i said the mind boggles

Gracias por construir algo tan poderoso y difícil, es una obra de arte, destreza y paciencia. Saludos desde San José Costa Rica 🇨🇷.

It's quite amazing to see a master craftsman at work. Well done!

for those asking.. the white powder is borax. a cleaning agent used to remove impurities from the fire and prevents oxidation

Just some pointers to think of... I think the white powder is a kind of flux that is used to bind all the drill pieces just like welding using a welding rod

Ohh thanks

Oooooooooh thank you.

Thank You for the info.I was always wondering what it was and no one ei explained it

But my man is using it like it's glue!

Amazing work! I wonder how a canister damascus with powdered steel and drill bits would look and if it'd work at all.

I was wondering the exact same thing

Clearly a man of great talent. I echo the comments below about safety; feet, eyes, ears and face. THEN, here in Oz, 24 x 10mm drill bits would set me back $240 so why would I not sharpen them and ponder why I own so many, as I go to my knife supplies shop to buy some raw stock. They run lessons and have all the accessories too. There is never a good time for a grinder not to have the shield on and I always avoid being "on line" with the wheel.

Ben sana 150$ göndereyim

It said old drill bits, not new ones

@Branden Teasley ha, I sharpen all my drill bits until they're too short to be of any use...

@0419 6380777 exact same for me, i also pondered why so many too point of downright odd, then again if could afford the energy bill involved to heat n grind, maybe piece of that hardwood for a handle, nice job, i've used old plow shears from rocky montana farm machinery long time both ways.

Verdadeiramente lindo de assistir. Todo um processo trabalhoso que provavelmente levou um tempo, mas é ótimo quando o resultado é satisfatório. Parabéns.

Pp

el fundente va q vuela

😊

Szia ! Magyar vagy , ha igen , hogy lehet téged elerni ? Hi were do you Come from? Were are you Born?

Você sabe o que é esse pó branco?

Nothing beats a nice full tang blade with a thicker spine. A knife you can pass through generations.

Lots of things beat them if you want them to actually cut.

most historic and real swords were made with hidden tang and a lot of premium knives are made with hidden tang. Full tang isn't bad but neither is hidden tang

It is always mesmerizing & relaxing to watch a professional while he work is working. Great video!

It is pretty relaxing… his skills are better than mine so I watch to pick up little things. This was just fun to watch

Love your machines and skills ❤

What I find amazing is that you are able to get all of the air bubble out of something like that.

i liked this one very much, mr blacksmith! i wish for all of us, you would post those videos (repost even this one) with subtitle-descriptions on every step of the process, so your viewers can learn and profit from this valuble blacksmith wisdom. internet platforms like yt give us the chance to share eduction for free!!! nonetheless great work, mister

My first thought was that even with the flux, it looked like it would have been a delamination nightmare, not welding individual bits or using a canister, but it was cool watching it come together into a billet.

yep. I wondered if the workpiece at the end was what he began with.

the heating process must have softened the metal so that he could then drill a couple of holes into the billet?

Flux! That’s the powdery stuff he sprinkled!! Thank you!!!

What exactly does the Flux do?

@Bert M Flux is used for Extractive Metallurgy and Metal Joining.

Safety squints engaged. This guy builds stuff!

Dude you created a £300-£500 hand made 1 off blade & wrapped it in 2p worth cord. Alot of tools,expertise, time & knowledge went into that blade much respect

There is a crack on the heel of the knife from a bad weld. You have no idea what you are talking about.

nobody paying £300 for that knife maybe £30

@Chance1957 And the fit and finish can be improved a lot too. Well the finish anyway, there's nothing to fit. The heat before the quench was visibly uneven as well.

Excelente trabajo de mucha paciencia y destreza, claro hay que tener todos los equipos y herramientas👋👋👍👍

Absolute craftsmanship. Couldn't stop watching.

I have spent 25 years at this and although I agree with the eye protection warnings, I never used them myself because I couldn't see what was happening! Back then the boss would get really irritated if you let safety gear get in the way of production. It's all changed now.

This man is ASKING for problems.

Now thats a knife. Love watching Master builders at work. Patience, thinking it through and creating something incredible

Absolutely great video to watch, even greater craftsmanship !

Seeing an angle grinder without a guard always gets me on edge. I've responded to too many events with broken discs in people''s faces.

I won't even pick up a grinder without eye protection and now I reach for my new auto darking yeswelder helmet that has a grinding mode that lets it not go dark but having the advantage of full face protection if a cut off wheel flies apart.

PLUS NO EYE PROTECTION!!!!!!!

Yah i kinda figured this guy hated his life when he was taking 0 safety precautions at every step.

👨‍🚒? 🚑? 👮🏻‍♂️? 👨‍⚕️?

Такой нож может прослужить не 50, а все 150 лет, интересно сколько такой может стоит, сколько работы необходимо проделать, чтобы выковать такое произведение искусства 🙏🙏

Always great to watch someone skilled at work. Reminds me about when you hear of the many layered Samurai swords although I imagine they completely forged them with no grinding involved. 😂 Very cool, but please wear some eye protection.

Blades have been ground for a very very long time, but the grindstones were powered by water, servants, treadles and other mechanical means instead of electric motors. I don’t know a whole lot about Japanese bladesmithing but it was definitely the case in Europe, and probably everywhere; otherwise you can’t get a very smooth surface with the fine contour that those have. I was kind of stunned that the guy was not using eye protection, or ear for that matter..so easy to have a serious accident

@Count Zebsley ñ

Glad so many picked up on the eyewear thing. The very first thing i noticed. Ive been cutting concrete with my angle grinder this week and there's no way in hell I'd have my eyes unprotected with all the bits that fly off. With that said, .... so i have all the drill bits, where can I find all that equipment?...... 😝

Hey man that is some ultra beautiful craftsmanship. A sense of pride goes all the way

Excelente trabalho viu... uma faca dessa tem q ter seu preço a cima das convencionais mesmo. O valor q ele pedir tá e bem pago. Parabéns pelo trabalho, 👏👏👏👏

Just for the sake of being different... I'll say that I love that you raw dog it with now eye protection. This is high stakes blacksmithing.

My father-in-law used to work at William Henry, so I appreciate this presentation. Blades are art!

Excelente obra de arte! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Precioso el trabajo.

I can only speak for myself. However, for someone whose work results in things that one cannot see, touch, or hold in one's hands, this video was absolutely fascinating! Thank you!

rien compris!

@aldel62 Presque toutes mes activités sont parlées ou écrites, c'est-à-dire que j'explique ou clarifie ou enseigne. Ainsi, voir quelqu'un faire un travail qui aboutit à un produit tangible est excitant pour moi. Ai-je expliqué cela à votre satisfaction, Monsieur 62?

I am Stunned and amazed by this mans skills! Potty Mouth Mike, San Antonio, Texas.

Nice, I am also unemployed so my "work" results in things that you cannot see, touch or hold because they don't exist.

@aldel62 pas à toi que ça s'adrese ça tombe bien?! perfect!

This guy is the real deal. Those drills are the hardest steel that I know of.

Given that drill bits are made from a number of different steels/metals, how do you know that they were from the hardest that YOU know of?🤔

@K B all I know is the cheaper the drill bits are the harder they are. So even the cheapest drills are still hella hard.

@K B all I know is the cheaper the drill bits are the harder they are. So even the cheapest drills are still hella hard.

My boi, only the tip of the drill is tungsten carbide, the rest is steel.

彼は見ただけで素材が分かります。

Parabéns. Muito lindo e eficaz o seu trabalho.

Gdybym teraz zdobył taki edc, pewnie by mnie przeżył 😉👍🏻

Nie wiem jak tu trafiłem, ale oglądanie Pana w akcji jest niesamowicie relaksujące. :) Kawał dobrej roboty! Z czystej ciekawości - czym jest ten bialy proszek który się tak pięknie wchłania? Serdecznie pozdrawiam!

It's borax or some other flux, used to remove impurities and prevent oxidation in the metal to make it easier to shape and weld together

Звук обработки стали,это чудо...

кокаин

How has this guy not lost an eye yet.... amazing work!

He will .Just a matter of time.

or fingers!

At least he always wears his hat to protect the top of his head.😂😂😂😂😂

@Ed Meyers 🤣

Absolutely amazing ! Thanks for creating this content 😊

Just something about watching a tradesman like this... kinda relaxing -seeing the process of things and imaging the handwork that men did not so long ago before "the machines".. took over..

Excellent artisan craftsmanship and kudos to whoever filmed this, high quality all the way around. ☝️🥴👍

Parabéns pelo trabalho top🙏

Deveria ter legendas narrando cada processo...

This is as interesting as any video I've watched on YouTube. What craftsmanship.

Amazing technic used. Really cool knife. Love the pattern on the blade. Does help to have a power hammer.

白い粉不思議

Ну нож уже сделали, надо приступать к изготовлению молотка из иголок.

You're joking right ???

Fine modern day damascus blade! Could you do the same in the traditional old ways with drill bits?

Nice looking blade but even as you were grinding it, I could see it wasn't a homogeneous block of metal. This leaves me to believe there are inclusions and stress points within the metal .

It won't be homogeneous, it's like Damascus.

Beautiful work of a Craftsman with tools that are not brand new please wear some glasses

would be interesting to see an xray of that

This was awesome. Sorry for the stupid question but what is the white substance he is using on the drill bits in the beginning and what does it do to the metal. I have no knowledge of metal work but love watching true craftsman in there trade.

There were some wonderful colours coming from the steel as you power hammered it flat.. blues and green.. it was amazing.

After watching this video for all of 10 seconds, I couldn't believe my eyes that this man has no safety glasses on or a dust mask. I see a lot of others chimed in on the same exact thing.

What a beautiful knife!! It looks very resistant and balanced. Crafting is so fascinating!

you call this a knife ??? wow !!

@JONATHAN Is it a bridge?

Beautiful?

@idrinkyourtears It isn't?

@Squit Squitty Its far from beautiful. i'm tipping the guy who made it doesnt think its beautiful.

I used to do something similar when I was working through my apprenticeship, though I'd use the larger drills 2" and up that were at the end of their working life, though I didn't have a power hammer, all hand hammer work. Once I became skilled enough, I was put to work making slitting knives for the local paper mill, that was a small side job for an Engineering Apprentice.

What is that powder he sprinkles on the bits ?

Super cool to watch! Makes me want to build my own knife!!!

I feel like he’s teaching all the hidden ways no one else shows or he just takes way more care into it

I almost gave this a like, but then I realized that "hidden ways" didn't have hydraulics, or grinders, or electricity, or........24 drill bits - lol..... but it is a hands on approach for sure, and one to be respected.

Totally in awe of craftsmen like this!

I can find dozens of Japanese knifes in the thrift stores , but a good bladed spatula for cast iron is an impossible find !

Muito profissional seu trabalho.🎉

Great smith skills. I don't like the cord grip, but that can be changed easily enough.

Buen trabajo , exelente cuchillo has creado

Svåraste blir väl att förklara varför kniven skulle hålla i bara 50 år. Snyggt byggt

A VERY skilled craftsman but I sure would like to see him wearing safety glasses in some of these scenes!!

Unbelievably cool! Awesome job!

Maestro takich ludzi się szanuje

Been doing this kinda thing a long time now, so I feel I need to ask a couple things. First question, why the wood? Why char a board when attempting to forge weld? Was it to make the blows more gentle? If so, just strike more gently. Second question, when you actually started the welding process, why didn’t you use moderate force on multiple sides, instead of straight up smashing it with the power hammer?!?! You could have made an even billet, then cut and weld again… I’d check that whole thing with a particle crack detector, or ultrasonic crack detector…

I’m no expert myself, but was wondering the same things. Was a little baffled when he smashed it all flat right off the beginning and cut it up, seemed like a lot of waste.

Excellent work and patience for this long and hard process, a piece of advice, try to take care of your personal safety through using proper protective equipment and keeping grinder cover in place .

He knows what he is doing. Protection and covers reduce visibility and increase risk. They are for amateurs and fraidy-cats.

Mike Mondano unbelievably ignorant

@Mike Mondano Protection does not increase risk. Hahahaha.

@Noeland Real protection doesn't. But "protection" like plastic goggles that restrict side vision and get covered in dust increases danger.

Gracias por compartir este buen video, para uso de la forja y elementos del taller, genial idea para usar brocas en deshuso. Saludos.buen trabajo. Saludos

great job, a true blacksmith! just art!

Да уж. Золотой нож. Столько труда вложено, сколько сверел испорченно.))))

Absolutely well done. Keep up the great work

These vids relieve stress and have a therapeutic effect. Thank you.

Watching a guy grind with no guard or eyepro is far from stress-relieving...

I agree its the pacing and the content matter and also watching a master at work. Good call on that comment my friend. Totally relaxing. It could almost use some mellow music to go along with it like some flutes or something. Like music played in medieval days as its a blacksmith like endeavor

Watching at 1.75x speed, and still fast forwarded through a lot of this. Having watched seasons of Forged In Fire, and other blacksmiths work; I see why you limited the lifespan of this blade to 50 years instead of hundreds.

Profissão de respeito! 👏Gente alguém doua um óculos de proteção pra ele

Que agonia, li teu comentário antes de assistir e fiquei reparando só nisso kkkkk

@Jian Carlos Marafigo também me senti agoniado! 😅 Sempre devemos usar óculos de proteção 👍

Great work, but as others have said, safety glasses are a must!

he knows the risks and suffers for his art. i happily watched the whole thing!!

Pointless suffering is stupid, no disrespect but it just is

Sem dúvida um profissional experiente. Cuide muito bem dos seus olhos. É muito fácil ser atingido por uma fagulha ou limalha de ferro que poderá por em risco a sua visão.

excellent workmanship. something beautiful came out through man and his machine. i just wish a nice hard plastic or wood handle instead of nylon strings. just my personal choice, great piece of work nonetheless.

Chapeau ! There's not one single moment in the whole process where he is wearing eye or ear protection.

I heard if you use flux, it prevents forge scale for forming between the welds and causing inclusions. I wonder if this guy knows about it?

Man, that tactical squint. Eventually his luck will run out. The bill for taking the iron out of the eye is not small, if there is the eye left at all.

Essa deu trabalho. Mas o resultado ficou ótimo. Parabéns.

Beautiful work - honored to watch you create. Thank you for sharing the process!

TX 0

Dở ẹc. Tốn kém, hao phí công của cho cây thấy gớm

Cuánto puede costar un cuchillo así,? ,.

I know very little about this process but was totally fasinated by the work. Can you tell what the white powdery substance is that is sprinkled on the hot metal during the early phase of the process and what is its purpose.

That man has the craft down to an Art.

I have been to the hospital to have particles removed from my eyes that got in there in spite of the fact that I had safety glasses on so this guy is going to find out that it's just a matter of time

Been working too long doing xrays in ERs to not cringe at the sight of no eyepro. Other than that, the whole thing is just amazing looking. That knife is sweet as f...