Forging A Mosaic Damascus Knife. Part 2.

[@RedBeardOps]

The explanation on the mosaic dimensions is excellent. Thank you!

[@beezo2560]

The break dancing will only get you so far in knife building today. Beat boxing is where it's at for the top builders. Love the channel because you show all ups and downs. Edit- the second go pattern is brilliant.

[@GreenBeetle]

Dammit I just ordered an oversized B-boi hat and some Adidas.

[@probationbird9786]

@@GreenBeetle it all means nothing without the red Adidas track suit!

[@jasonscheffler9813]

@@GreenBeetle Video or it didn't happen. :)

[@shookings]

I'm not rushin, but real quick: It takes a special kind of confidence to let everyone see your mistakes. It's much appreciated

[@Trollsky]

monday morning coffe and new video from the Beetle ! good start of the week :)

[@GreenBeetle]

🤌

[@Tuonico87]

Hei maaaan ! Where have u been?

[@ridhwaanjogiat1708]

When are u releasing any new videos 😅

[@Trollsky]

@@Tuonico87 very busy, builded "trollsky knifemaking academy" in Poland, covid also slowed me down for 3 months. Very strange year but I am recovered, building new forge with powerhammer, press and plenty of space for recording videos. Yes, I am planning to get back on youtube :)

[@Trollsky]

@@ridhwaanjogiat1708 soon, working on 1 knife with video, also there will be a video from building my new forge :)

[@dgundeadforge17]

It helps us, beginners, not lose interest knowing that even more experienced knife makers make mistakes. Also, the break dancing was fun but much better than what I could do.

[@GreenBeetle]

My first time trying I watched a few KZbin vids 😎

[@nicksas6457]

Had to watch the description/dance session twice just so I could focus on one at a time 😂

[@iolithblue]

Blyat comrade! In Soviet Russia, bright lines etch you!

[@GreenBeetle]

🤣

[@cm-messer9165]

In my Opinion, the first knive looked awsome. If you don't want to work with it, I would be happy to finish it! I don't have the mechanical tools and the know-how of forging such a wonderfull damascus, but making knives after school calms me down.

[@andrejohnson6731]

I enjoyed Steve breakdancing to the sound of Charlie Browns teacher like wahn wo wahn wa wahn

[@GreenBeetle]

Heheheh

[@springer2112]

The Clark W. Griswold quote made me chuckle. Thanks!✌😎🏴‍☠️

[@whatthefunction9140]

"Can't see the lines can ya russ" Lmfao

[@GreenBeetle]

As stated, Russian or former eastern bloc viewers are allowed a solid TWO negative comments, fire away! :) Part 1 kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2PSiWZtZ7KEr8U

[@StuartSmithHandForgedKNives]

dude, that's some good clean handle fitting

[@GreenBeetle]

Ty!

[@chrisangelone3349]

I love the work you do. You never claim to be the best blade smith out there and you still try very hard to deliver quality pieces. Your KZbin’s every mans blade smith. Which I think is great and very helpful to all of us trying to learn the craft. Thanks for all you do.

[@wavecreatures]

Steve I love that you include problems and failures. I love how you learn from them and move forward. Much respect.

[@ryanmorris2763]

I thank you for your time and your dedication, thanks for all you have done and shown us over the years

[@bobgore1962]

STEVE! ... STEVE! .. STEEEEEVE!!!! I ALMOST BROKE A RIB! LOL! 😂👍🏻 You had me at "REPRESENT"!!! 💯 Love your videos, and I'm looking forward to the next video! You are my boy! 😎👍🏻🏁

[@danielmatthews4262]

Steve made a knife for me. Its a great tool. Worth every penny. Thanks bud.

[@doxdoomsday4948]

I can see your confidence increasing with every episodes. Thanks for your hard work.

[@stephenkeefer3436]

Hey Steve! Thanks a lot for bringing us along. That pattern is one of a kind fantastic!

[@500mos]

I like the look of the lines in the first blade. It gave it a different look you dont see.

[@aetherseraph]

The crushing reality of meh... After a whole video of effort... I'm here for it dude, every single second. Please keep making knives, fearlessly ruining steel, and recording everything... One day I'm going to see you make God teir awesome first try like it's nothing and I'm going to cry tears of joy

[@GreenBeetle]

yay!

[@ForsakenAngel236]

Been trying hard to come up with a negative comment. Like that was my chance - an official invite to make one, which may never happen again. But gave up on 10-th minute of the video. Have nothing but respect for the effort and perseverance.

[@demonorslayer]

Beetle, your vids are always a highlight to my day keep it up !

[@GreenBeetle]

🙏

[@bearfootknivesgunforge9183]

Lookin good so far Steve. One day I'll try mosiac after I defeat cancer

[@normansandds757]

I myself like what I 'am seeing as it shows the construction

[@sevenarchers5953]

Hey Steve, you never cease to amaze, with your multitude of talents! Not just anyone can "bust moves" like that while wearing a respirator and not suffocate. Great job on the mosaic, thanks for pushing through. Looking forward to the final product. Take care my friend. Good bless.

[@bjf10]

I continue to be impressed with your perseverance. After that first failure I would have thrown the knife across the shop and worked on an entirely different project.

[@ryanblystone5153]

Never a dull moment

[@andrewnelson4496]

42° not only gives you 5 tiles, but is also the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything!

[@norscanhordes]

Superb video, as always. Thank you

[@SamTownsBladesmith]

your determination and willingness to fail is a constant inspiration Steve, keep it up!

[@anthonycox7693]

Love the pattern... You do good work. Thanks for putting out content

[@TyrellKnifeworks]

Looking good, Steve!

[@GreenBeetle]

Ty!

[@erneststafford1778]

good to see you back Steve!

[@ghill1010]

Awesome stuff per usual. Thanks so much.

[@AdirondackRuby]

"I'm ya boi!" LOL! Indeed you are, Sir. Indeed!

[@Charlielizard]

Incredible work. I would have thrown in the towel, but you kept pushing through and kicked it up. Proud of you and can't wait for next video. 👍

[@jackshields606]

I don't laugh often but the break dancing did it. Durn.

[@ironhammer3734]

So what brother, if it was exact science it wouldn't be so difficult to make masterpieces, and you know everyone is there own worst critic. This is looking insanely gorgeous! I wanted to fast forward to the final piece when this video ended..... loving it!

[@GreenBeetle]

🙏

[@DiesInEveryFilm]

Coming together nicely mate, love the attention to detail

[@GreenBeetle]

thanks, dude!

[@Smallathe]

Lot's of hard work... But that is a gorgeous blade!

[@Stale_Mahoney]

i must say the lines may not supposed to be there but it sure gives it character

[@MCsCreations]

Fantastic work, dude! It's looking amazing! 😃 Thanks for showing the issues you're faced with! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@ilmbutton]

It looks awesome so far, so impressive. My heart sank when you had to restart after putting in so much time and effort on the initial mosaic, the pattern looked beautiful too! I am rooting for you! Cant wait to see the finished product.

[@chwmn7733]

I really love how you include every iteration of your builds into the whole video! There are so many videos that start a project but then call it finished even through all the flaws, which isn't bad in itself, but I just love seeing how you learn from your previous iterations in order to create an even more beautiful piece! Great stuff my man!!

[@Bigudey]

It looks badass! Keep up the good work can't wait for part 3!

[@carycleland9506]

10 points for the Christmas Vacation reference.

[@USAUSAM82]

Such a memorizing pattern! 👏👏👏

[@probationbird9786]

that pattern is amazing!

[@patrickdean9797]

i think it looked cool with the lines

[@shotou]

So far, so good Steve, I did also dig the breaking.

[@WastelandForge]

Nice man I'm working on 2 Mosaic billets right now too. Thanks for posting your video and showing all the mistakes. I would never thought about making sure all the decarb was removed before the 4 way weld!

[@gamingenius]

I feel like the title for this video should be Green Beetle: Damascus Boogaloo

[@slackerbelmont]

If you made the same mistake but on purpose, I think the resulting pattern could be cool. It brings forth a broken and glued back together type of pattern to my mind.

[@michaelmarsh4013]

Love the pattern, love the process :)

[@stephenjohnson6841]

It's looking great!

[@krissteel4074]

Great explanation on the geometry, so far the blade + fittings are looking excellent. You're definitely well on your way to getting this down pat as part of your skillset and compared to a lot of knife making activities it'd probably one of the steeper ones to learn with only yourself and the internet to help out.

[@christheobald3635]

for approx 1:00 in just wanna say, mosaics are tiles, tiles have grout... this works imo.

[@Plain1nsane]

I like your narration

[@couchsurferdude3873]

"Can't see the lines, can you, Russ?" 🤣

[@AndyLivingston]

Awesome! Another Green Beetle.

[@GreenBeetle]

Oh yeah!

[@TheKayStop]

Amazing work

[@adhart81]

Perfectly explained! 👏🏽

[@jamesg744]

My beatles thank god i was going to go crazy if i didn't see you again LOL dope love from sarasota florida

[@camerongunn7906]

Don't be so hard on yourself man! Yeah the Mosaic Damascus is cool and it really is a show of skill. However, I loved your original canister builds.👍

[@timhvac6869]

Beautiful so far. Your dance moves are pretty good as well.

[@sidehillforging]

It's looking good, Steve! Keep it up.

[@thegrafxguy1]

bright lines or not in the first one, that thing was beautiful. i don't have any lines or layers at all in my edc, i have to envy yours. :)

[@knutpohl339]

Sometimes it feels a bit like you have these "issues" on purpose, so you can tinker around and try to solve them. Which bladesmith would see the bright lines and go "let's recatbonate that steel" - But every metallographer would go for it in less than a heartbeat. You have a true passion for steel and its alloys. Personally, that's a big part of why I enjoy your channel so much. It's so much more than cold steel banging on hot steel aka regular blacksmithing.

[@emilnord]

So more patterns = even more staring material... you lose a lot just doing a simple Damascus knife. And the maths... a beer is 5,5%, so you lost me after that. Man it looks really beautiful. Like it a lot! Great work Sir.

[@souppapi4993]

looks awesome

[@wingnutbert9685]

My first thought on the bright lines was the SS foil you used........

[@paranoiia8]

I would keep that knife with white lines, and actually expose it even more with some handle that have similar square lines design, maybe even cut top part of knife so it would have square recesses. And make it just as display knife. Just to experiment with it and try to recover it somehow.

[@b2bogster]

To that I say " Well done Sr. Well done! "

[@USAUSAM82]

7:19 😳 Thats a spicy meatball!

[@williamthomas2278]

Fail until you succeed otherwise your just a failure. Thanks for sharing the ups and downs of your craft

[@MFD00MTR33]

Negative comment. From a Russian. I actually like the second pattern better, I think it came out great and you learned a lesson from this.

[@GreenBeetle]

:)

[@darknessgtr1]

Dancing machine!

[@rodgerklindt3165]

My brain hurts. But I enjoy you vids and projects, thanks.

[@Pablo668]

Ok, so I imagined the forging process for the second billet, like you asked. Did yours also look a bit like the volleyball scene from Top Gun? Just asking. I got nothing out of your cutting explanation, too distracted by the breakdancing. Knife is looking good so far!

[@GreenBeetle]

🧐😆

[@ghostunspeakable7866]

Its ya boi......DJ Racoon Pants!!!!

[@GreenBeetle]

😎

[@danthemakerman]

Just curious do you weigh how much steel you start off with versus the weight of the final blade?

[@GreenBeetle]

I’ve never weighed the two, that would be great to know. Seems like 2/3rds disappears?

[@tinkeringaround6241]

Nice job as usual ! Are you ever planning on doing a video about the mill ? Really interested!

[@GreenBeetle]

I’ll have to learn to use it better first. Check out little machine shop . com

[@nuckleheadzgarage8360]

tis the season to be merry

[@GreenBeetle]

🤷‍♂️

[@TonersR6]

You should do a "Chaos Damascus" dagger where you use scrap Damascus or failed Damascus projects all forge welded into one piece. Just say screw it and see what kinda pattern comes out.

[@salvador0919]

I kinda like the lines

[@stevoreeno24]

Thank you for being very ADHD aware and including some sweet moves to keep us engaged haha.

[@richardbryant7972]

Cool looking so far, I have drill bit wander also on my drill press do I went to shorter drill bits seems to work better for me.

[@GreenBeetle]

Right on

[@aserta]

Negativity? NIET COMRADE!!! I'm gonna say something controversial and go with, i actually like the patchy square knife. Kinda makes me think of scales, with patterns inside. My damascus knowledge is purely entry level, but if you could make a normal and inverted triangle pattern with those defined white lines of bleached steel, that'd be pretty neat.

[@reefboxnation]

Hey Steve, I remember not too long ago you did a raindrop pattern on one of your knives, and that made me curious, what if those divots were made by a modified hole saw, forstener bit or maybe even a countersink bit.

[@GreenBeetle]

I did double ladder that looked like raindrop on a mill

[@cavemanvi]

the etch looks like baseballs

[@paranoid.rabbit]

7:20 is the glove sizzling? Love your videos Steve. I don't do any blacksmithing but i always find your videos entertaining.

[@GreenBeetle]

Prolly’, ty!

[@carveroutdoors]

I spit out my drink when you talked about the Russian comment limit. HAH

[@AndyLivingston]

Not intended as a slight at all - have you seen Ilya's mosaic damascus sword video that was recently uploaded? You two are the only ones I've ever even heard the term from. It's such a cool technique.

[@AndyLivingston]

God damn, I hope I don't sound like an ass. Your damascus work has always been amazing, which is why I always tune in.

[@Card_Asylum]

Noob here 🙋. What's the foil do? I get the paper and I'm not a newbie to forging but that's new to me. Awesome work and I truly admire your patience.😏

[@barrysnell6775]

The foil creates a non-stick barrier between the billet and the canister, so you can just pop the billet out instead of having to cut or grind the canister off, which is a huge pain in the ass.

[@GreenBeetle]

Protects steel from oxidation and scale formation

[@cwmoss4124]

I have noticed that you are quite the gymnast . Have you ever thought about giving up knife making and trying out for the olympics ?

[@DatBoiOrly]

I've never tried making mosiac it seems like such a daunting task to do without the benefits of why Pattern Welded Steel is greater than High Carbon Steel in its material qualities making it more suitable for the specific job. I just don't understand it :p

[@danwerkman]

I nearly spat my coffee out at the negative Russian commenters comment... Talk about taking that on the chin. Legend Steve....

[@kurtingemayn3273]

nice video !!=)