Sounds of Making a Damascus Kitchen Knife (No Dialogue)

[@TheArtofCraftsmanship]

What a beauty Don. I love watching the process, as well as the mistakes😂. Masterpiece!

[@seekerend]

I felt the drill press frustration deep in my soul.

[@DroxoCosplay]

Teach me your ways 😭. This piece is BEAUTIFUL

[@shaungreen679]

i love the idea of hidden pins

[@emilianocarrillo-aun9801]

What a great video! Great job man I enjoyed the hell out of that :)

[@DonNguyenKnives]

Thanks so much dude!!!

[@krissteel4074]

Very cool resultl, the close up camera work was also good too

[@mattwhatevz]

This is incredible! I couldn’t stop watching this, the audio/video, everything, Nice job

[@DonNguyenKnives]

Thank you!!

[@noahnipperus7320]

Another banger! Looks great!

[@chimestonks]

understood about 20% of what was happening, still a very enjoyable video and cool knife!

[@shaunm2208]

Great work bud as usual

[@Messerschmuck]

Congratulations on this very beautiful masterpiece! Very enjoyable video to watch. It was also cool to hear the sounds of the creation without a voice - at least up to the point where the handle was glued...😅 😂Greetings Colin - Knifemaker Germany 👋🏾 🔪

[@justinwilliams4212]

Fantastic build video- congratulations on your Damascus journey so far looking forward to seeing more. Judgehandmadeknives

[@the_sharp_carpenter]

Excellent video, and a stunner of a knife!

[@BalticBlades]

Great job! At times it was very nerve wracking!

[@jwthomp7]

could you make a video on how you do your tips? i apologize if there already is one, i just havent found it.

[@DonNguyenKnives]

Do you mean shaping the actual tip of the knife? I think in my older video "5 knife making tips." I actually cover that

[@22Jerid]

Beautiful! Learning a lot from the channel, thank you.

[@RibeyeReaper]

Great video! Whats the purpose of grinding across the bottom wheel vs just going across the platen?

[@DonNguyenKnives]

It's WAY faster to use the wheel and the edges of the wheel to take off the scale of the billet. The platen has too much surface area and it just wants to skate around

[@gothamantiquities2595]

This video was awesome and you are a Rockstar! I even liked the part with audio came on with the paper towel. You have great skill,film,edit etc etc! Do you sell any of your work? If so please advise, stay safe and best regards from NY!

[@lukegiffardtutt3778]

Great video as always. Love your work and have learned a lot from your vids. Forgive me if this is a dumb question but how did you get the handle profile to match the tang before glue up and what is reason behind doing this?

[@DonNguyenKnives]

Thanks! So for the handle profile, everything is fitted tightly with those internal pins. There is pretty much no wiggle room at all and they slip in and out - without those tolerances you can't really do the handle profile before glue. The reason why I do that is so that I can chamfer all the edges of the tang and handle so that it's an eased fitup, where over time when materials shift and shrink and stuff, you don't have a sharp tang interface.

[@lukegiffardtutt3778]

@@DonNguyenKnives That’s really smart and I’d never have guessed. Might give that a go using sacrificial Corby bolts. Glad I asked. Appreciate all you do sharing your knowledge. I hope business is going well for you. Thanks again!

[@timjackson5555]

Time consuming going to dmc & back. Does that have a carbon core?

[@DonNguyenKnives]

It is, but I'm grateful for the opportunity and that they let me have some forge play time. It's also just fun to have days where I can enjoy forging with them and not think about the usual knife schedule

[@DonNguyenKnives]

And yep, 52100 core

[@thedarwinexperience5312]

Like that BAMF Apron

[@DonNguyenKnives]

It's been working really realy well for me so far

[@sdm031]

I spy a MAMF!

[@Sankar_KKumar]

whats that grey stuff before heat treatment?

[@DonNguyenKnives]

It's an anti-scale compound. This one specifically is NoScale2000 by Daniel O'Connor. It reduces the decarburized layer from about 0.020" thick to roughly half that.

[@samziegler4957]

Nice knife, you are an artist of design. really appreciated the honest video. Did you get the cold fucking shut out?

[@DonNguyenKnives]

lol yes, I did.

[@fxnepilogue]

Nice knife! You must have skipped a few of the forge welds? The layer count is way up there, and I didn’t see you add that core steel! What steel did you use for the Damascus and what did the core?

[@DonNguyenKnives]

The first stackup I think is omitted, but the tig welding you see is actually tigging in multiple layers of 52100 for the core! The jackets are ~600 layers of 1084+15n20

[@davidloganbill6907]

If you made this video where the parts were proportional to the actual time spent on each thing, how much of the video would be hand sanding?

[@DonNguyenKnives]

Actually not that bad. We don't spend that much time on sanding nowadays because we spend a lot of time on the disc grinder prior. Maybe 1 hour, two hours total sanding.

[@fencingrocks3]

Are you using a digital scale to measure out that GFlex epoxy? And if so, do you do 1:1 ratio by weight? Loved the video and how little dialogue there was (other than the classic glue up stress haha!). I also loved all the use of the disc sander. Very impressive, and I definitely learned a few things! Thanks for the video.

[@DonNguyenKnives]

Actually we learned that gflex is 1:1 volume, but 1:1.2 weight (I forget which was which, I wrote it on the bottle).

[@fencingrocks3]

@@DonNguyenKnives Thank you!

[@TheRoffnar]

is don