Heat treating my wife's knife. O1 tool steel with.

This video I am preparing and he at treating my wife's knife

[@Pashinski1]

I recently made a forge like yours and heat treat my first O1 knife tonight. I loved your video as a nice hands on visual example of what and how to heat treat. I purchased and coated my blade with the anti scale also . Fingers crossed. Nice job!

[@jovosedlar]

thank you Bacon for sharing this with us the way I can actually get it.

[@vonbaconstien760]

Jovo Sedlar no problem buddy!!

[@vector3647]

Great vid Bacon. Allowing the steel to chooch properly before dunking in the shmoo is a key step in making a skookum blade! (ps you can grab a mapp gas brazing kit at canuckian tire for 50$ if you want to up the chooch factor on your forge.)

[@survivalsquatch8148]

Dude that was awesome! I learned a good bit from this video!!! I can't wait to learn how to build the forge itself! great work!

[@vonbaconstien760]

thanks a bunch man!! I appreciate it!!

[@vonbaconstien760]

It's still odd talking to a camera! ! haha

[@survivalsquatch8148]

you welcome bro! you don't pretty damn good to be on camera! any video that you make like this post it on my new page is also! this is primitive skills brother and that's what bushcraft survival preppers is all about!

[@vonbaconstien760]

I appreciate it a lot!

[@TimRobson30]

great video man and great choice of adult beverage

[@user-dl1ze3oi7k]

Happy wife, happy life

[@trainwon5699]

Good job thanks

[@philippshull3335]

DIY forge, Guinness and Disturbed in the background... I think we would get along!

[@josephrector8735]

looks great, don't forget to update with a video of you adding and shaping handle scales..

[@vonbaconstien760]

sounds like a plan!!

[@toddparnaby5799]

It looked a little to hot young man considering you had lights on and it still hit yellowish white

[@jeremiahshine]

todd parnaby I was just told by a well-respected knifesmith that O1 didn't really shine in a blade until HC 62 or 63...which means hot. He claimsand demonstrates O1 beats VG10 in tests and practicality. His personal O1 he takes to 63.

[@caspermaul7583]

@@jeremiahshineThe final hardness is dictated by the temperature during the tempering phase, not the temperature before quenching... A temperature of 350 degrees Fahrenheit will give you a harder steel around 62 HRC and 500 degrees about 57 HRC. I would suggest buying a cheap pyrometer to monitor the temp. inside the oven. With a bit of practice you should be able maintain a pretty stable temperature by adjusting the torch.

[@Anderson-HandForged]

yes was to hot for sure todd

[@gamechanger8417]

Can ya turn the music a little louder! Just love that sound!

[@sudo_nym]

Five Finger Death Punch: The Sound of Silence

[@natedwards7019]

the Guinness is a great choice!!

[@vonbaconstien760]

Thanks!!

[@KinuGrove]

Would still like to see a video on how you made the brick oven your using.

[@woodlandsnorth]

Nice tutorial. How do you know when to take the knife out? I see it was non magnetic but you kept heating after that

[@vonbaconstien760]

Hello!! I showed that it was non magnetic, but a piece that small cools quickly and I was worried (at the time) that in the amount of time it took to show that it was non-magnetic it would have possibly cooled below the threshold needed to properly harden. Looking back it would have been fine, and if it wasn't i would've normalized it a few times and tried again. :-)

[@charlesseeley9747]

CHEERS

[@DuaneT64]

Hey man where do you order your steel?

[@vonbaconstien760]

Duane T64 amazon.com!!