How To Forge A Knife Blade

Place one end of the heated steel on an anvil while gripping the other end with forging tongs.

How to forge a knife blade. Dont finish curving the blade then do this. I made this video to document the entire process for myself and anyone else out there looking to get into knife or blade making. Yes they keep minor scrapes and burns to a minimum but they limit what you can do. Forge 600 anvil 900 flypress 300 800 tongs 200 for 5 pairs hammers 200 forging isnt necessary to make a knife nor will it produce a better blade at least at the novice to intermediate skill level.

Start this very early. Once the forging is done one more heat is taken in the forge and the blade is placed in ashes to let it slowly cool and anneal thus relieving a lot of the stresses from forging. You could even do this before you start the curving. After your forge youll need a forging hammer and a forging table or anvil that you can use to pound out the metal.

Making a leather knife sheath duration. As my 1 day workshop runs for 10 hours straight and. When it is over to the left the closer edge of the blade is being forged to a bevel. Forge a knife step 1.

Forge the blade to a point. You simply need air flow so that the heat can be maintained enough room to heat your knife and thats it. When the blade is over to the right the edge of the blade on the far side left is being forged. Jason knight 290057 views.

Put the metal inside the forge and bring it out when its ready for hammering put the area of the handle on the edge of the anvil and hit in that area with a hammer by half on and off the anvil. So how do we do that. Since this is going to be a knife we need some decent if not good steel. Then use a rounding hammer to beat one of the corners on the end of the hot steel into the shape of a knife point.

Well start that shape early on. How to forge a full tang hunting knife from 8mm 5160 bar stock this video was recorded during one of my introduction to bladesmith workshops. How to forge a knife from start to finish zh fabrications. Alternatively if you feel like doing it yourself a forge can be built with any of the three fuel types working just fine.

4 hour forge to finish knife making challenge. You will need to forge the blade in such a way that the flat side will be the blade edge and the curved side will be the spine. Okie i talked about that big drop in the knife between the blade and the handle.