man, I cannot wait to see your channel to grow. Love the set up and the hammer control. Try to keep the thumb off the top of the hammer it will lead to injuries later down the road.

Just found this goldmine of a channel, keep it up!

I have to ask, you have a hand blower right there, just place your Tinder bundle in the forge, with some smalls on top and crank away, the blower will do all the work for you and it will be going in no time. Better yet get yourself a pinecone, load it up with char, develop an ember and then put that in the forge and crank away, again the forced air will get it going very quickly.

Nice tutorial. Well set up shop. could se see a closer look at your grindstone setup and your tool rack? Mabe do videos on each piece in the shop. also good content on the basic forging techniques, hammer strikes and how the iron move from each is much needed on KZbin. especially for younger viewers. Loving the content on your channel. Keep em coming.

Now that's one i have never seen before. very nice indeed. Thanks for the tip.

Forgot. good sources of good knife steels are. Coil springs from cars, usually 5160 spring steel. Metal-NOT wood files 1095 or o-1 tool steel. Old mill style wood saw blades- The big 3-5ft ones 1084 or 1095 high carbon steel. Roler bearing races and larger ball bearings " over 3/4 of an inch" almost always 52100 very good steel. "ROCK SHAFTS" from tractors. 5160. John deer ones seem to be the best quality of these i have found. Ather good KZbin channels for smithing. That works. Blackbear forge. DF in the shop. Alec steel- the earlier videos. Knife steel nerds. and Joey van der Steeg.

New to the channel. Really like your forge setup. The blade looks good. A few questions if you wouldn't mind. Are you self-taught, or have you trained under a smith? As you hammer control and fire tending are good. What steel did you make the blade from? as mild steel will not harden properly when heat treated. I would have you try to keep your thumb off the top of the hammer handle as much as possible. rather put it on the side, as thumb on top can lead to hand injures down the road. When doing the tip be careful of "FISHMOUTHING" the tip. as this can lead to a cold shut and cracks. Either round the two tips first when hot. or cut the tip at an angle over the hot cut. When punching use the Pritchel hole instead of the Hardie hole. it will deform less. also if it is a flat tipped punch" not a pointed one" punch from the first side on the flat of the anvil, then flip over and go over the pritchel, you should see a dark ring from this side. put your punch directly on top of the dark ring and as the steel is cooling down" about dull red. then punch it. it should shear out a little plug if done correctly. Annealing or softening can be done by heating to a very dull red, holding that color for about 2 minutes then putting the blade in wood ash or vermiculite to cool slowly "about 8 hours" then it will file very nice. Do As much filing of the blade while annealed. To heat treat. heat the steel to a bright red to a dull yellow. get a magnet. it should be non-magnetic at the right temp. then quench in water or different kinds of oil depending on steel type and speed of quench required. Careful the blade will be like glass at this point and a sharp metal file should just glide over the steel and not grab. to temper. rub with a red brick and water to shine up. then heat slowly over coals from the spine with edge up, moving the blade back and forth. careful not to overheat the tip. when the entire edge is between a straw or wheat color for smaller blades and between brown and just starting peacock purple for larger blades and small axes. blues are getting into the softness of springs and may not hold an edge well. Quickly quench in cold water. NOW it is a blade. By the way. i like your magical blade holder when you were punching the holes;) I hope some of this helps in some way or another. I hope you enjoy continuing on your smithing journey. I will be sure to check out some more videos of yours. I always enjoy younger folks practicing living history skills. You are our future.

My boys (7 and 9) love your videos! Thank you so much! They had a request for videos on how to make a primitive fire starting kit and showing the layers of clothes you wore camping in the -20 weather. We live far north and are learning to keep warm the old ways and that temperature is pretty normal for us.

Dry nice job on shaping you knife and hammering it out I would like to maybe offer some advice on your quenching and or hardining practice if you would not file you knife itvwould be softer and quench for hardness then temper it and. Be careful when using water to be sure you don’t put a full blade in water if it is really hot u can tend to get smalll fractures that may not be evident right away

Great job! I have a small blacksmith forge and love the hobby.

Outstanding video

I have several knives made by a black smith

Outstanding video

Very nice job. Would like to see the finished product please

Cool Video.

Nice video bro❤

You guys are great and I love the videos. You guys got skills!

Its sad that all boys his age knew this at one time and now they cant even read an anolog clock

Preciate the game lads

Good afternoon from Syracuse NY everyone

Great job, guys! keep up the good work. Come join us for reenactment events at historic Martin's Station sometime!

Good morning from Syracuse NY everyone thank you for sharing your skills

Good evening from Syracuse NY everyone thank you for sharing your information

Good evening from Syracuse NY guys and thank you for sharing your information

Great job! Just needs more smoke!

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Good evening from Syracuse NY everyone

Good evening from Syracuse NY everyone

Very interesting cooking stuff

Do you have any videos on survival cooking?