Forging A Knife From A Vintage Plane Iron

[@Chickenandfriends-dj4vt]

An old spatulator becomes a beautiful new knife. Great job dude!

[@MASI_forging]

Such a great transformation. ☺☺ Beautiful knife. 👏👏

[@davidvanderwoude7911]

I love how the etch made a hamon-like pattern on one side of the blade. And the high contrast between the iron and high carbon steel really makes it pop. That is a gorgeous knife.

[@GreenBeetle]

Ty!

[@leppeppel]

This is an exemplar of beauty in simplicity.

[@ilmbutton]

The knife turned out amazing!!

[@mtnman8783]

Man i started watching tou wayyy back. Your one of thebguys thats first helpwd me get into smithing. Glad to see that you still making knives and uploading videos

[@GreenBeetle]

I appreciate that

[@calebmarkle1866]

I really really like this complete build format. Not only that the knife is beautiful as always.

[@muledeerdude]

That is a beautiful knife, I really like it. Also, if the osage isn't stabilized, it should turn a nice orangish-brown over time, it doesn't typically stay that bright. I think that'll add a really nice touch

[@Sajuuk]

I love seeing old iron or steel being reused and remade into something new. Good project!

[@GreenBeetle]

Thanks!

[@Sajuuk]

@@GreenBeetle That blade pattern is beautiful, dig it.

[@GibsonCutlery]

Good Lord. That is a fantastic composition! Absolutely gorgeous! If you want to have the exact look of multiple truoil coats but in about 15 minutes, try 2 coats of Solarez UV curing Grain Filler with a 400 grit flat sand in between followed by one thin coat of truoil or BLO. Save heaps of time and it is a bit more water resistant.

[@GreenBeetle]

Ooooh I’ll check it out

[@sunnybeach9145]

A tique draw knives (two handles, sometimes used to remove tree bark) are primarily iron with a laminated steel blade. I like the final piece you made in this video. Good job!

[@ncsaddlehunter77]

Another beautiful work of art

[@tybertimus]

I love when a blade has a little bit of an organic look. Turned out lovely.

[@gvozdencekicevic1322]

You never faill to impress me GB. 13:55 😮

[@GreenBeetle]

Ty🙏

[@BumblingB-DC]

Wow, this knife looks amazing! :O

[@danthemakerman]

Wow man I really like the contrast of the blade looks so dynamic! Who knew the cutting edge steel was just a sliver of good steel, pretty wild stuff.

[@GreenBeetle]

Thanks 👍yeah it’s sorta nuts.

[@chandlermorris712]

A lot of old planes and chisels were made this way, actually. Pretty common with pre-1900 era tools. No need waste the hard to produce steel when all you needed was a thin sliver of it to be effective in its job.

[@b2bogster]

It's really nice! I love the contrast from the iron to the steel. So many colors!!!

[@michaelgraham3572]

Looks great! I always understood that the plane blade had thin high-carbon steel to reduce the chance of chipping the blade and to make it easier to sharpen. The iron absorbs shock better and grinds away faster. It does also reduce the amount of the more expensive high-carbon steel but that was not the main reason for use. It just makes a better plane.

[@GreenBeetle]

Right on

[@SK8AN]

I love seeing someone else forging in sandals! I make leather sandals for a living and forge to blow off steam. Consequently im always wearing sandals even playing with hot metal.

[@GreenBeetle]

It’s 115 F when the forge is on right now. 🔥

[@Chevelle_addict]

Love seeing new videos. Great work.

[@thecountbassy_]

Turned out fantastic, beautiful work. Absolutely nailed the handle.

[@stevengose8160]

You can always make a single bevel knife with high carbon on the back. Similar to how the plane was constructed in the first place.

[@jpolhamus71]

That is an extremely beautiful knife!! 🔥🔥🔥

[@lancemillward1912]

That is cool. Maybe the next generation will transform the knife back into a plane blade

[@BCM1959]

you have come a long way in the years that I have watched you.

[@beezo2560]

Turned out great. Nice piece of history there.

[@Pablo668]

That turned out really well, very nice knife. I have to admit early in the vid I was racking my brain trying to figure out how you were going to use the metal.

[@jayjaska8963]

old plane irons would be made of an iron body and a steel core so that they could use less steel and still have the right size. It also made it cheaper to make. It would also make it easier to refurbish an iron with deep pitting.

[@CaptainTwitchy]

I’m also not a fan of light or yellow-colored wood, but that handle does look nice and appropriate to the blade.

[@ryanblystone5153]

Thank you

[@GreenBeetle]

Interlinked

[@vopenacattleco]

🍻 Cheers 🍻

[@TalRohan]

Ooh thats a keeper for me lol. there is a likelyhood that the plane blade/iron was sand fluxed or even dry welded, my mentor used borax but he learnt from a smith who had a "special" place he dug his sand from, to make all his welding supplies, welded tips like that were common place and not necessarily very good, you need a very high quartz content in your sand to get the "glassy" covering that keeps the air out. A scythe as you found out a while ago is made in a similar way but was usually made with borax because the steel ran the entire length of the edge...difficulty hardening the steel is how scythe peening anvils and the associated wierd ways of doing things evolved

[@GreenBeetle]

Nice!

[@valentinigarageworks]

great looking knife!

[@SonoraSlinger]

That old thing may have survived a barn fire at that age. Could have ate up the temper

[@GreenBeetle]

I think I was hardness checking the wrong side initially. Oh man it’s seen things for sure though. Wish it could talk.

[@SonoraSlinger]

@@GreenBeetle If it could talk, I'd feel some kinda way tossin it in my forge!

[@leobuana7430]

​​@@SonoraSlinger we would end up keeping him on work table and call him Mr.Old Steel

[@Rsama60]

This is a really nice knife.

[@cydrych]

Beautiful

[@RamoArt]

Watching you figure out what kind of material you're working with was interesting!

[@GreenBeetle]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@ghill1010]

Awesome stuff per usual!!!!

[@StuartSmithHandForgedKNives]

great now I need to make a San mai

[@GreenBeetle]

Stu this stuff is child’s play compared to what you’ve been up to! I see your IG, it’s 🔥 😃

[@devinhardy1832]

Beautiful work!

[@dspa58]

The iron is used to make the plane heavier and makes construction of the plane cheaper

[@Solid_Punch]

Nice knife!

[@jdkeel01]

The intro made me laugh, thank you

[@meanjeans99]

Very nice!

[@Joseph-Colin-EXP]

Beauty

[@MCsCreations]

Stunning looking knife, Steve! Amazing work!!! 😃 Really well done! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@STUFFWEDO]

As always a great piece of work.

[@GreenBeetle]

I appreciate that 🙏

[@ghill1010]

One of these days I would like to see how you’d work the tip for a sheep’s foot shaped blade. And how to forge in the bevels and not introduce a curve to the cutting edge.

[@Brad-vs1jc]

Those are some mighty manly hands you got there

[@jeremynedrow7003]

I love the videos keep up the great work.

[@phillipturner657]

Looks great Steve! Smashed that like button! 😂

[@GreenBeetle]

😆

[@custardthepipecat6584]

Man that's great 🍻😺

[@bilbo_gamers6417]

could it actually be Case Hardened? would explain why it's so thin.

[@CloudfeatherRusticWorks]

I work with osage as a bow maker. That handle will darken over time, eventually to a kind of dark brown/chocolate color with an orange hue. ;)

[@bernjwallace6877]

That would’ve been great for a Damascus blade also.

[@krissteel4074]

Interesting to see an industrial process from back then, that we probably wouldn't bother today with. By the time you got something like a modern mild steel laminated to a high carbon section it probably wouldn't be worth the material savings to go through with forge welding it and rolling mill to turn it into strip steel for blanks. Not to mention- actual wrought iron which can be difficult to source now! So that as a material really doesn't see as much use in modern tooling except in cast iron Otherwise its a really pretty knife

[@garethbaus5471]

Cast iron is even less chemically similar to wrought iron than modern steel,

[@krissteel4074]

@@garethbaus5471 I couldn't really win with this one. I thought if I just wrote 'iron isn't used industrially any more' then someone will point out that cast iron exists and if I didn't specify wrought as a material used in mainstream manufacturing, someone will bring up silicon iron used in electromagnets and hard iron in permanent magnets. Basically I'm really at the mercy of the internets inherent OCD/autism about materials

[@GreenBeetle]

Yeah I think iron is more expensive than steel now!

[@GreenBeetle]

😁

[@McGowanForge]

Beautiful knife as always man! You never disappoint with the quality, i have a few old plane blades (mutch thinner) but its from the early 1900s so its historic steel for sure, might forgeweld em

[@RendoC21]

Shame that i cant give more than one Thumb Up. Great Work!

[@beachbumsdn80]

Damn.

[@soonerfrac4611]

Wish people would use bois d’ arc more often. It darkens with age as well.

[@damienreilly8061]

Good looking knife! 👍

[@crashwelder5337]

I'd love to see you get ahold of some cast iron and make a knife out of it

[@benjaminbreeg6214]

Trying to forge cast iron will get you a super heated shrapnel bomb going off at crotch level. It has too much carbon to be forged, it will break

[@dmitryk754]

what do you thin true oil with? TIA

[@GreenBeetle]

Mineral spirits

[@paulwiggins183]

Whenever I see a full tang knife I think "great pry bar!" Also handle heavy. Dang.

[@GreenBeetle]

If you drill out the tang you can achieve a lightweight, balanced knife.

[@paulwiggins183]

I noticed that some years ago the Bark River people had been skeletonising their handle steel ... for balance principally. Cool.@@GreenBeetle

[@danwerkman]

Not normal a fan of yellow myself but I really like the story with this one and the finished product looks flipping awesome. Think it's really special. PS .Please don't become that over excited shouty type of Y tuber 😂.

[@GreenBeetle]

Only if you give this video a thumbs up and subscribe and then it gets 10000 likes! 😁

[@1noduncle]

Keyword iron

[@BrianRust89]

Did you get that bodark from Doc? And is that knife sold? Or gifted already? I know you don’t sell your knives but I’d love to have own one!!

[@GreenBeetle]

It’s available. No, but Doc keeps offering to send me some I need to take him up on that.

[@BrianRust89]

@@GreenBeetle oh really? Where do you sell your knives. I thought you didn’t. Yes he recently built a big drying rack at his house. He has cut down a few trees recently, so he has plenty! I just last week got a 155lb Peter Wright anvil. I’m work on getting a forge built. Already have my blower also. Wish me luck!!!

[@evildead1791]

Shes a beaut

[@notabrit3025]

pre atomic cladding ;)

[@GreenBeetle]

No ☢️

[@NerdwalkerYT]

Lol

[@Joseph-Aten]

Beautiful 120+ year old plane iron in extremely workable condition (already great edge on it) with mild surface rust and preserved etching and it has to be abused into a knife for what reason? It's more impressive to do this with scrap than valuable antique tools that could have easily lived another century in the right hands as it were

[@GreenBeetle]

This was $12 on eBay being unused and ignored. I bet there’s a lot more you should go rescue them and see if you can get them into museums. Or put them on a book case to make a house feel more “real” or use them if you can find a plane they fit in. Or stop being a Karen. You had your chance to rescue this blade but I was the only bidder so….

[@user-ii5im7zm2t]

Yep, tools made using prison labor. You get what you pay for. What are the odds the rest of the steel that should have been in that thing went into a different sort of "cutting tool" that inmate was making?

[@GreenBeetle]

😆

[@carrestore]

Beautiful