Backyard Bladesmithing

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1:27 - Landscaping
2:45 - Spark it up / bark spud
3:59 - Current set up
4:30 - Bottle opener
5:42 - Blade making
5:53 - Sharpness test
7:30 - Metaling around
8:53 - Heat treatment
9:58 - So far...
10:30 - File into sword
12:39 - Test
13:16 - For Christmas
13:28 - Thistle Rock
14:18 - Finishing sword 2.0
Check out some of my incredible metal friends:
Thistle Rock Forge: www.thistleroc...
Ferrous Fox: www.ferrousfox...
VIBA (Vancouver Island Blacksmith) www.viblacksmi...
Sea Wolf Forge: / sea.wolf.forge
Feral Iron Forge: / feral.iron.forge
The Mighty Forge: mightyforge.com/
Viking Wood Splitter: vikingwoodspli...
Inclusive Blacksmiths: www.inclusiveb...

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@tombrown879 9 ай бұрын

Nicole. As a blacksmith and bladesmith of over 40 years and a father of two daughters. YOU ARE AWESOME!!!! I am so happy that you contacted a local smith to further your skillset. This will save you tons of time and money in mistakes. The little backyard forge is set up nicely. I also love that you are learning to switch hit right off the bat. If i might a couple of tips to save time and your joints. If you are mostly right-handed. put the forge to the left of the anvil or even in front of the anvil. this will save fuel. Go back and watch the footage of you swinging hard. you are having what is known as " Chicken winging" try to keep the elbow "in" when you bring the hammer up. this will save your joints. Lastly the anvil face should be at a height that when you are standing upright with a clenched fist arms hanging down strait. your knuckles will graze the face of the anvil. This will give you more power on each swing, and ease future wrist pain. Hope some of this helps. Thank you for taking us along on this new journey. I hope that you continue to evolve your new craft. and may it bring you as much happiness as it has brought me in the last 43 years. Tom B. in ND

@matthewdelaney8833 7 ай бұрын

Yes! Thank you. This is exactly what I was going to say so I'm glad someone else got there first. With the higher anvil you hunch your shoulder and don't get a full swing. You also seem to use a heavier hammer and hold it high on the handle, I'd recommend using a lighter hammer (2lb or so) and hold it further down the handle to give you a better range of motion. Really enjoy the videos! Keep it up!

@ralphciardella9705 4 ай бұрын

Eye protection...please

@onipanda5 9 ай бұрын

I'm only a few years into blacksmith and bladesmithing myself. It's fantastic that you're doing this as well as showing your process, especially the fun of ADHD. Don't ask me about my bag of partially completed forging projects.... But if I may be presumptuous, I'll offer some unsolicited advice. I teach blacksmithing classes now. Well, assistant teach anyway, but that does mean I'm pretty focused on watching what the students are doing and trying to remind the actual instructor about things that they're so used to that newer people aren't. So I do see a lot of the classic beginner mistakes, and I'm gonna be a bit mad about your friend not pointing them out. Couple of big ergonomic/safety things and a couple of small nuances: -- Don't rest your thumb on the back of the handle. Your thumb is going to take more stress and damage the ligament and tendons in your thumb and wrist -- The grip you use should be hand wrapped completely around the handle, and a VERY loose grip. Your hand is just there to guide the hammer as it falls. The old saw is someone should be able to pull the hammer out of your hand when you're at the peak of your swing -- Someone else in the comments mentioned, you're choked up really high on the handle. Hand position on the handle is a trade off between power and control. The further up the handle you are, the less power you can generate but the more control you can exercise. Holding the end of the handle puts physics in your favor by having a longer lever arm. -- This is THE most common novice thing, not bringing the hammer up high enough, using too much wrist, and not driving through the anvil. Again, it's all physics. The higher you bring the hammer up, the more velocity you can generate, which is going to impart more force into the piece. And if you're using your wrist instead of your whole arm to control it, you're putting more strain on your wrist and robbing yourself of the power of gravity and the rebound of the anvil. Driving through you didn't seem to have any trouble with, which is understandable xD And related to that, you're standing nice and close to the anvil, so didn't fall into that trap. -- Great job on eye protection and mask while grinding, and maybe I just didn't see them, but always, always, ALWAYS wear ear protection. Especially while forging, but also grinding. Being outside helps, but striking the piece on the anvil produces a lot of strong high frequency waves, and it WILL kill your hearing. Nuance stuff -- When quenching anything, you want to move the piece only vertically (up and down in the oil). You want to disrupt the steam jacket that gets created, but you want to keep the blade oriented smartly. You never ever want to move it laterally, because you'll be breaking up the steam jacket on one side but not the other, and so one side can cool down faster and increase the likelihood of a warp -- Canola works of course, but it's still too slow for a lot of blade steels. Parks 50 is the thing everyone uses. It's kinda pricey, but it's worth it in the long run -- I don't know if you just didn't show it, but there wasn't any normalizing cycles before the quench. If you didn't normalize, I'd put all my money on that's why there was cracking -- Is there a ball valve next to the actual forge on the gas line, or just the regulator on the tank? I'd strongly suggest having a valve next to the forge so you can shut the gas off right there I hope you continue to enjoy blacksmithing and make more videos, because I think it's a ton of fun and spend a lot of time spreading the craft. And that's the main reason for all these words, so many people end up hurting themselves because they just don't know or don't think it's that big of a deal. But it's all repetitive, one time won't kill you, the accumulation will.

@jewelhome1 9 ай бұрын

Thanks, I learned from all that. Her forge is the same one I have (The Mighty Forge, made in Duncan,BC) and it has two ball valves in top, one for each jet. Kudos for mentioning the safety equipment, too.

@trappedkitty5335 9 ай бұрын

Only one thing I can add as a novice blacksmith, but long-time tool-user: Most files only work in one direction, like a saw. Try to pick up the file on the backstroke to avoid dulling. I adore your charm and it is not lost on this queer gal. Keep kicking ass!

@froodcariad6399 10 ай бұрын

As a BC, ADHD queer who is trying to get their life together to do.... essentially what you are doing.... these videos are so healing and joy-making

@калоянкамбарев 9 ай бұрын

Nicole, would be glad to see you planting trees, or at least just one. That will make my heart full of joy.

@paulbrach5778 8 ай бұрын

Great to see you swinging a hammer. Bladesmithing is challenging but so worth it when you start with a concept and end with a finished blade. 😃👍👍

@steveplummer5779 9 ай бұрын

I didn't know that you could get cooler than you already are... but you did. I love this SOOO much.

@irvlalonde3915 10 ай бұрын

As a old toolmaker once told me, if you don’t make any mistakes, you’re not doing anything.

@brandon0099 10 ай бұрын

there is a nice old Italian proverb about it: "no one is born learned"

@amok668 9 ай бұрын

Heh...I never learned anything by doing it right the first time

@TheSynthwaveMisfits 9 ай бұрын

@@brandon0099I thought that was Ricky LaFleur 😉

@brandon0099 9 ай бұрын

@@TheSynthwaveMisfits there are many phrases, many concepts, many proverbs copied in many parts of the world. Someone copied something (really little) from me too, but ultimately if it's true it's better that way. What is good is to be wary of those who present themselves as the only "inventor" because it is almost always a collaboration of beautiful intuitions. For example, without Faraday and Maxwell there would have been no Einstein's relativity, just as without the control of fire there would be no foundries and without acute observation of teeth and jaws there would be no hatchets and saws. Nature is the first teacher (as Leonardo Da Vinci claimed, and certainly others before and after him)

@davedemyan3302 9 ай бұрын

My words to live by are: If you're not making mistakes, you aren't trying hard enough. Some of my best mistakes I haven't even thought of yet. ❤

@stewartwoerle6351 9 ай бұрын

Great to see what you are starting here Nicole. You are at the beginning stage of what I hope continues into a really enjoyable pastime. You are starting as many hobby smiths do, with minimal equipment and whatever scrap steel. My first tongs where made from re-bar and are ugly as, compared to what I can make now, but I kept them. They did the job at the time and remind me of my beginning stage. Just a couple of things you may want to consider, when you start wholloping away at a larger piece of metal, keep your elbow closer to your body. It will protect your elbow and shoulder joint over the long term. When quenching, vigorously move the hot iron in the oil or water to stop bubbles forming which will affect your quench……and oh yeah, I had a laugh watching you fill that huge container with oil. Try a pipe or rhs blocked at one end. Same result, much less oil. I hope you keep learning this path as it is very rewarding, and I don’t mean financially though it can be that also. I look forward to your progress

@iammaru-chan 10 ай бұрын

And then, a new passion emerged...🔥 Yes, passion! I noticed that with your excitement about working with metal! ⚒️ Oh, Nicole!!!❤️ That's why I'm your fan! You're not only awesome and badass, also very cool!💪😁 Impressed that you did everything by yourself!😲 I'm so happy you discovered and developed a new skill! I understand you!🤗😍🔥⚒️ It was like that with me too when I started learning to weld 👩‍🏭, I made a lot of mistakes to learn how to do what I do now, and today I make new mistakes while learning new things on the job, and I tell you, it's precisely by making mistakes that you learn faster, because by understanding the mistake, we learn to get it right! No one was born knowing everything. And please wear gloves when handling the sander! My heart almost stopped seeing you sanding without any protection and then seeing the bandage on your finger 😱 (the story about hitting your finger didn't convince me 😑), safety first, ok?😉 I really love following your journey and discoveries. Warm hugs with all the love that I have for you and Bambi! Thank you! 🤗🐶❤️

@requiemriot8619 10 ай бұрын

Torag and Hephaestus look upon you with a smile

@moniquesavini1822 8 ай бұрын

I can't wait to see more of these your personally and charm are so inspiring and I am super excited to watch your development in your new hobby ❤❤

@MentalNewb 9 ай бұрын

Can't wait to see more of this type of video. Watching you learn to blacksmith was really entertaining.

@Spicy38Pisces 9 ай бұрын

I would so love to have a forged blade from you. Those look awesome

@starlightmoon9 10 ай бұрын

I'm loving this channel

@NicoleCoenen 10 ай бұрын

happy to hear it 😄

@burgesst44 9 ай бұрын

As an ol blacksmith its awesome to see someone carrying on the tradition. And yes, keep hammering away at it you will get there. And it is good to see you as a perfectionist. That my friend will make you great and you will go far. There isnt no better critic than yourself. Keep on keeping on, you got this!!! P.s. loving the videos for years. Just dont comment much. 😂😂

@user-s5h8mn9x7 9 ай бұрын

Я знаю, что ты никогда не отчаешься, и всегда доведешь любую работу до конца. И я за это тебя очень люблю!!!

@cherylmartin4050 9 ай бұрын

Hey at least you are doing something and bringing us along to watch you do something 😊

@crazydougthewolf 9 ай бұрын

Nice little smithy you put together there, the setting looks amazing!

@Tepor8 10 ай бұрын

I need to drink all of these 😄. Beer and blacksmithing belongs together.

@brandon0099 10 ай бұрын

Yes, it's what we like, don't have shame about some little mistakes, it's the only way to improve (filming a lot and editing too) ^__^ the more "humble" you are, the more you learn but sometimes a plan, if sustainable, is necessary

@kizzmitten1 9 ай бұрын

Thats super cool. Thanks Nicole for the entertainment!

@jordanw2741 10 ай бұрын

It will keeelllllll! Good job Nicole. Good first solo attempt.

@liminal79 10 ай бұрын

all great swords have names. Sting. The masamune. Oathkeeper. A name for yours... Kindlingmaker. ^_^

@JayTee78NIN 8 ай бұрын

My son and I want to get into blacksmithing soon. We know almost nothing about it, so I'll be trying to learn from your channel with you. It'll be a fun adventure

@Alan-o3p 9 ай бұрын

Looking good Nicole never give up it will all work out in the way you want it too

@Andrewbert109 9 ай бұрын

Wow that's awesome! If you ever find a meteorite you should make a space sword

@Robeight 10 ай бұрын

I would love a gift like that.

@daveduncan8004 10 ай бұрын

I have cousins that are HDAD and they usually don’t finish a job that they started and they make a lot of wrong decisions you’ll be OK I’m going to pray for you like I said before and hopefully the Lord will bless you and you have a merry Christmas young lady You are very talented about everything you do and keep up the good work we enjoy your videos so much

@ShortPack 9 ай бұрын

This made my little engineering heart happy! Also drinking a couple of Angry Orchards along the way doesn't hurt either lol

@morganmcgary921 10 ай бұрын

We need an equipment list. I'm poking around the blacksmithing sites you listed trying to find that gas powered forge you have there, but haven't found it yet. Great video as usual.

@NicoleCoenen 10 ай бұрын

I got most of the stuff used from Facebook marketplace and antique shops. One of my hammers is from Thistle Rock, and I just got a new tong from them as well. The forge I got new from an awesome local guy who makes them at "The Mighty Forge" (link in the description)

@morganmcgary921 9 ай бұрын

@@NicoleCoenen Thanks I'll check them out. I really liked that forge setup. Keep on choppin'!

@BamsBangers 10 ай бұрын

as Doug Marcaida from "Forged In Fire" would say - "this sword will cut! " love watching you learn!

@caravanlifenz 9 ай бұрын

Blade smithing looks fun :)

@Cody1234-u9w 10 ай бұрын

Life is 90% mistakes, it's how we cope and deal with them that makes us stronger, who we are and sometimes an inspiration to the rest of us ❤ Keep up your great and inspiring work ♥️

@PaisleyPatchouli 9 ай бұрын

Really glad to see you 'branching' out Nicole! I was gonna axe you if you had any other hobbies... ;) Happy New Year Thor! Now it's time to get hammered! :)

@jimw966 9 ай бұрын

Really nice work 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😊

@snowtiger44 9 ай бұрын

I love your work in progress i do mostly silversmithing and some blade sharpening

@ValhallaIronworks 9 ай бұрын

Huzzah! Welcome to the fold, Nicole!

@wackyvorlon 9 ай бұрын

Car coil springs make for an excellent source of scrap metal for blacksmithing.

@johngskewes 8 ай бұрын

See a little of myself in you, a duality. Part ADHD and part hyperfocus...the ability to zero in on one thing. A heuristic learner, prone to distraction. It's a beautiful curse. This was a really well edited video, you are a wonderful storyteller. Peace

@dbnx1701 10 ай бұрын

It doesn't have to be pretty it just has to work, you're doing a great job.

@Gab_2576 9 ай бұрын

It helps with the ringing and the bouncing if you chain your anvil to the stump and put a magnet on the anvil

@mechticulous8202 19 күн бұрын

Keep doing that you're doing ❤

@CoyoteFallsForge 9 ай бұрын

Canola oil is my go-to for blade hardening. It hardens the steel...and smells like french fries!

@ronaldss859 9 ай бұрын

Your a Fun person to watch ... thank you

@Hughsllc 9 ай бұрын

Absolutely just build and enjoy 😊

@Duckrabbit_Forging 9 ай бұрын

A couple things. 1 your anvil is about 6 inches too high. 2 for the knife you quenched in water, those cracks look more like cold shuts from forging down the handle poorly. For most steels quenching in water is fine, and some steels will only harden properly in water. 3 jerry knows whats up. You should spend some more time with jerry. BLACKSMITH APPROVED

@garstarr 10 ай бұрын

It looks cool Nicole. I spent the first eight years of my working career in metal fabrication. Lots of sparks and flames 🔥 🤣

@DanBeech-ht7sw 10 ай бұрын

That was really interesting, thank you Nicole

@mikesands4681 9 ай бұрын

Impressed. I would like to try it too

@Hughsllc 9 ай бұрын

You can make both end of the wrench open bottles 2 for 1.

@akirataifu8470 9 ай бұрын

Great video, have fun smithing!

@bobbolieu9013 9 ай бұрын

If you want to let the hammer do more of the work for you try gripping the handle of your hammers 3.5 to 4 hand breadth from the head of the hammer. This will also allow you to have the face of your hammer to strike the material flatter, which will reduces the number of hammer divots in the blade.

@SyntaxSeed 10 ай бұрын

Forged In Fire: Nicole edition! So fun!

@davidscott3820 10 ай бұрын

You got a lot of spunk!😊

@TressaZimmerman 9 ай бұрын

Great video!

@MRBenchwork 10 ай бұрын

I really quite enjoyed this. It reminds me of the early days of @AlecSteele

@zappzapp1350 9 ай бұрын

Jean d Ark of now. Happy that i find your Channel.

@xena5151 9 ай бұрын

I would love to have a knife or small sword made by you! That is so dang cool!!!! 🥰

@johnmooers5594 10 ай бұрын

for long object quenching, use a long box. Bend up some sheet metal and soder shut

@MatthewETurner 10 ай бұрын

Think you'll find some of the tougher steels you're using are air hardening - files and car spring for sure. I use oil hardening O1 tool steel for making small plane blades, but it's pricey. The benefit is that oil quench and no tempering, it's perfect. A2 air hardening always seems to have a brittle edge where it's thinnest. You wouldn't probably notice as your sword has a fairly heavy cross section.

@fciron 10 ай бұрын

Files are usually straight carbon like 1095 or W-1 and most modern springs are 5160. Both of them are fine with oil or water quenches. EDIT: I checked my Machinery’s Handbook and it says normalize and quench in oil for 5160. @MatthewETurner is correct.

@MatthewETurner 10 ай бұрын

Ah, no. Make a punch out of a coil spring, water quench it, and see what happens when you hit it. It'll snap, just like one of the knife blades did. Props to Nicole for knowing how to oil quench. Most guys don't even know that much. @@fciron

@fciron 9 ай бұрын

@@MatthewETurner That doesn’t make them air hardening, which was the point I was trying to address. I do make punches out of coil spring, water quench them, and use them. They seem to do just fine. I usually do the old school thing, quench the tip then watch the temper color run down, so my experience may not apply to knives which are hardened all over. I suspect the knife cracked because old springs can have fatigue cracks in them which are easily overlooked when grabbing some dirty old steel off the ground. (That old spring got discarded for a reason.) As you pointed out, Nicole used an oil quench, so that shouldn’t be the problem.

@frankmorris4790 9 ай бұрын

Nicky honey! You gots to make a larger stable flat at the front of your forge. Have something spew from your furnace heading for your face, and/ or the rest of you. Do get at least an apron! Anyway , when that happens, YOU WILL move away and quickly, for good or Ill. Also tighten up the linkages tween furnace and gas supply. Shorten em up. so you don't trip on them Oh and with glowing iron.... Merry Christmas

@TheSynthwaveMisfits 9 ай бұрын

Gearing up for the apocalypse. Nicole, something tells me you're not joking. 😬

@timgazsy666 10 ай бұрын

I appreciate you

@fishingboats7197 10 ай бұрын

You can't bake a cake without cracking a few eggs . Breaking a few knives and making mistakes is how you learn . Keep it up you will get there . Not sure if you heard of this guy michaelcthulhu , but go watch his stuff you will be making swords in no time . He makes some wild stuff . Have fun with it

@k.epatterson8006 9 ай бұрын

That was great. I always wanted to get into forging, but life hasn't lent to that path... Wouldn't mind seeing and learning more along your journey with this. Cheers. An may the forge be with you.... er uh.... Nvm.... Cheers :)

@philmccole4309 10 ай бұрын

I'm telling you right now, when the apocalypse comes I want to be on YOUR side!

@NicoleCoenen 9 ай бұрын

Hopefully, I'll have some good blades by then

@sn0wreaper 10 ай бұрын

Nicole, you are amazing! thank you!~

@mikebunner3498 5 ай бұрын

Nicole, Full disclosure here when you hammer head flew off of the handle, I laughed ---SORRY! Girl keep banging away, it is good for you! I enjoy the sound the anvil makes when it is hit with a hammer.

@Pytlioshka 9 ай бұрын

Love ur swords😊😍

@kennethkarlsson6796 10 ай бұрын

Thanks😊

@bopper1234 9 ай бұрын

I understand. I'm ADHD too. And of course you know you're awesome!!!!

@susanfranks-craun811 10 ай бұрын

Some people call them mistakes, I call them originals. Original because there is no other like it anywhere in the world! 😊😊😊⚔️🗡️ Me, easily distracted by gophers and sparkly things! 😎😂😂🤣🤣 And that makes us originals.❤❤ I love watching your mind work! Thanks for letting us in.❤❤

@locomotivefaox 9 ай бұрын

5:41 I just said to myself outloud "I hope she drinks all these" right before this lmao

@Shane4457 9 ай бұрын

ADHD for the win, making life interesting. keep up the struggle.

@schoentgeny 10 ай бұрын

Satisfaction ♫

@H_412 10 ай бұрын

Okay, you're semi-officially the greatest human being ever. Aside from Ryan Gosling, obviously. I had Angry Orchard in South Australia but can't find it here in Scotland. Have one for me, just not when you're holding a glowing sword - or do, and it would be a sweet album cover. I also love that the press is called MASH and I have that cued up to watch next.

@jewelhome1 9 ай бұрын

“The first time is a learning experience, the second time is a mistake.” Well, maybe the third.

@ПростойЧеловек-ч5ф 9 ай бұрын

мужика тебе надо с хорошим колуном)))

@marcodifruscio3707 8 ай бұрын

Friendly advice from a fellow smith Nicole use the whole hammer handle will give you better strikes

@bopper1234 9 ай бұрын

Keep on doing what you're doing. Love your videos. This Alberta boy next door to you is also ADHD so I get what happens. Glad you're embracing it. We got it so we might as well get used to it right?

@aleksandrzhura6957 9 ай бұрын

Ты красотка. Восхищаюсь тобой.

@Alexhulk 9 ай бұрын

Bravo

@TheJim91303 9 ай бұрын

Your better off using automotive traditional oil. The quenching is more then just cooling , it's adding carbon to the steel. That's where your hardness comes from. And the correct temperature of the steel at quench is where strong or brittle steel comes from

@louzander 9 ай бұрын

What is the advantage of removing the bark from the wood? Is that only if you're planning on milling or doing something beautiful with it, or does it also convey a benefit to wood for burning?

@petersymons7817 14 күн бұрын

Vitamin B8 choline and inositol hells my OCD 😊

@tomslongguns443 9 ай бұрын

PC pipe tube will work to make you a oil holder that doesnt need as much oil .

@geraldbock1012 9 ай бұрын

Hi, saw the short on the "Sword which doth slay Wood" I was curious as to the name/brand if available, thanks!

@ncoutdooradventures6148 9 ай бұрын

Not to sound like the old fuddy duddy that I am,,, please use eye and ear protection at all times when you're forging and grinding! You'll thank me for it in years to come!