very good narration and great looking knife.

Great pace to the video and great information.

100%. I could tell that was Bitterroot before you opened it up. The best stabilized wood I have found anywhere.

Mind sharing which blower you are using?

Hi dear friend Is that white powder that you add to hot metal is Borax? Why you add it? What work it do?

Hi dear friend What is white material that you add to hot Coble? Is that Borax? Why you add it? What work Borax do?

WOW

Nice looking scales, will go great with Damascus blades.

Got a housemade for CHRISTmas last year. Absolutely love it. When you block the ends it uses even less gas. Mine barely registers on a gauge.

Bout time you retired those Venturi burner forges! 😂 they certainly have there place though.

Hello, my name is John from Alaska. How much do you charge for a forged knife? I am a hunter here in Alaska and I wanted to see if you take orders? Butcher knife I wanted to order if you take any orders?

I have a rocket mass heater that gets to steel melting temps, what would handle the heat, and be strong enough to be a grate to hold the wood up out of the tray for the ashes?

Think the solenoid safety feature is a great idea, especially when you have people involved, noone is perfect.

I love it I applaud your creativity and your skills

That's stunning

....... Well im kinda impressed that the knife blank did not break, though you can use vinegar or other acids in stead if you are afraid of dulling the sanding belts😅

Из за такой обработки заготовка будет разрушаться изнутри.без нагрева металл нельзя так гнуть.но у него другие познание на этот счет.судя по пеньку эта не первый день так делается.

I built my ribbon burner forge from the ground up in half an old acetylene bottle; and it was probably more labor than the money I saved doing it literally any other way. I made my own burner, inspired by Old Hickory Forge’s sword forge burner, so I probably have to much burner for my volume, but it definitely heats up fast! 😂 I initially used the green ‘2.5” forge blower’ off amazon, but ran into some freaky behaviors with the flame front backing up into the burner after heating up. I upgraded to the more powerful blower, and that fixed it. I’ve developed a startup procedure that works slick, Instead of holding a torch in it, I use a ferro rod to light some 0000 steel wool and throw that in the forge, turn on the air, and then ease the gas on. Lights up nice and smooth and keeps all the body parts away from the fire! I figure a little burned up steel wool can easily be brushed out, and the forge is designed for heating steel, and will get scale debris in it anyways.

Never seen this before this is crazy

These are very good stones I’ve been buying sharpal for 6 years now and they are perfect the case is good and it has the little guide

I made a 3x5x13 forge and put two 100k venturi burners in it. It gets a little toasty.

Que chille... vamos a forjar ❤

I'm so confused😂

Thanks for the info.

Not good

И в чём прикол??

Wow. That helps on my finished thickness visual

Maybe #4, beginning knife makers don't realize they're beginning knife makers. I'll probably never do a tanto blade because I'm horrible at sharpening them. I'm fine with that. I know my limitations and work within them.

сидит ванька на скамейке. долбит х..е..ром 3 копейки, хочет сделать 3 рубля, не выходит не х..у..я!

Is there a way to put a pyrometer probe in there to know exactly what temp you’re at to prevent an overheat situation?

Have you seen those electric induction forges, where it’s basically just a coil that you put the metal inside of and it heats up very quickly? I’ve never used one but it seems ridiculously fast and simple. No idea how it would affect an electric bill but you would never have to buy gas or run out of it.

Fascinating and lovely. So Damascus is primarily a cosmetic choice? Blacksmiths get respect as valued craftsmen - and also because they're insanely strong and they have all the sharp things 😄

You should consider more than PSI for efficiency, since those burners likely use the same overall volume of gas. If you have a hose at 100 PSI flowing at 50 gallons a minute and a 50 PSI hose at 50 gallons a minute, they're both the same volume but one has a higher flow rate. I'd try putting your tank on a bathroom scale and see how many pounds you use per hour compared to a Venturi burner, since that's really the fairest and easiest way to do things. Forced air should be more efficient though since you're able to adjust from reducing to and oxidizing flame, whereas a Venturi burner is a super reducing environment with lots of unburnt fuel. There's pros and cons to reducing vs oxidizing, but reducing makes less scale and is better for forge welds/reactive alloys, and oxidizing is good for maximum heat/sacrificial material like a canister. You should generally be able to tell just by smell, as the reducing should smell a bit like propane whereas the oxidizing should smell really hot and dry.

I made a body for a sword forge at least 2 years ago and didn't finish it because of the ribbon burner. Currently I use my old forge burner in my furnace and hooked up to a shop vac, and I'm able to melt steel if I'm not careful. Eventually I'll finish that forge by making burners, but for now using forced air in a regular burner is fine for my casting needs since I haven't made knives in a while

What kind of blower do you have/use?

Very interesting thanks

Very informative so thank you for sharing how to

Well done, nice new forge.

In my procrastinating about building forced air burners (because it does cost a bit more than compared to a venturi) I did find air-blowers and neck-down components from of all places: Hyrdroponic stores Apparently they use them to move stale and hot air out of greenhouses and there's a fair variety with the kind of CFM which suits these burners. Mostly because for those of us not in the USA, it can actually be harder than you think to find something that's both 220V AC and not made of Chinesium that will stop working and explode your shop. Just something for those looking to make one

I have a ribbon burner forge and i feel like it doesn't quite get hot enough. My venturi forge seems like it gets way hotter.

This is very satisfying. It's almost like every cut is just one cut replayed. If that makes sense.

Did you build that forge setup yourself? 😊

I see in some of your shorts videos here on KZbin you answer questions , can you tell me the reason I see people adding ground black pepper to some of their billets , tia , love the channel btw

I recently got my hands on a hardwood called greenheart and I think it’s one of the coolest woods I’ve used, I think it would be cool as a knife grip

Very nice looking scales, I didn’t realize people used box elder for anything. We always kinda considered them a junk tree around here.

That is beautiful. I'd love to have a chefs knife with a handle made with that...

Why did you call them petty?

Where did you get the reducer for the blower

Picked up my 8” Sharpal 162N sharpening stone on the recommendation of Outdoor55 and NOT disappointed! 😊