How to make a bushcraft knife from a lawnmower blade Part 1

Here's how I made a bushcraft knife from a lawnmower blade.
You never know what might be available to you after the apocalypse so here's how to make multipurpose knife from a lawnmower blade. Or you can just think of it as a fun way to make something useful by upcycling a piece of steel scrap.
Here's Part 2: • How to make a bushcraf...
This is my second lawnmower blade knife and I spent a lot of time trying to get it right. I wanted a medium sized, sleek all purpose camp knife/bushcraft knife that felt good in the hand and had a nice sharp edge and plenty of belly for skinning, butchering and just about any other task you can ask from this kind of knife.
This blade would definitely serve you well in the bush, on the hunt, in a survival situation, after the apocalypse or just about any other place/time you can think of. If you don't mind a sheath knife, this could even serve in the EDC roll.
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[@OUTDOORS55]

That angle grinder incident could have been REALLY bad...but i gotta say, THAT WAS AWESOME! I like how you didn't even change your shirt lol! The knife is looking great 👍

[@volgnit]

Man, your boys were lucky to survive that angle grinder. Lol ! You did a great job on the knife. I'm looking forward to seeing the next video.

[@CarolinaChrisOutdoors]

Cool! I'm not a blacksmith or knife maker but I have tried both before. One thing I know is drilling holes in your knife before you heat treat it is a lot easier than after it's treated.... learned that one the hard way 😉

[@kimberly1324]

Thanks for the tip🙂

[@fmlskits3289]

"I had a moment in there where I was very worried about a couple of things." hahaha Nice video

[@joshh130]

By far some the best knife making videos, good to see someone fairly new using either home made or more budget friendly equipment. Your earlie video on just start forging actually got me to make a forge and make my first knife a couple of days ago.

[@OrangeApeOutdoors]

I have my first propane forge arriving tomorrow, and last weekend my dad gave me some mower blades! Awesome video

[@jimmyg8338]

Metal working in flip flops...that's gangster!

[@FargoFX]

Jimmy G 😂 no, just lazy. (well, maybe a little bit gangster)

[@jimmyg8338]

Yeah,I'm the same way sometimes so I had to poke fun but be careful and have fun

[@centaurgaming2164]

M8 I’m too lazy to put on shoes when I make knifes

[@JohnDoe-ls2ww]

I like it. I inherited a huge pile of worn out circular saw blades, and lawn mower blades. Now I know what to do with them.

[@qmether]

One time I forged in flip flops. One time.

[@darkhawk574]

Absolute legend

[@REAPERMILITIAOUTDOORS]

Sweet can't wait to see the finished knife

[@ni7suj]

After watching many videos of exploding cutter wheels and similar scary clothing grabs I always have the guard on and wear an apron with all the other gear. Recommend. Thanks for the vid though.

[@hectormora5377]

Good work. Want to do knives but haven’t started but after this video, will hopefully start in the next week. Good job. Thanks!

[@deanosinga4657]

If you don't want to have another accident with the grinder, put the guard back on it. Great looking knife

[@HughieW]

Turn your angle grinder round! Have the sparks coming towards you, so if it snags it'll just pull away from you rather than fly towards you! Obviously don't sit directly in the path of the sparks lol Good video!

[@carriestearns7665]

Right i was like wtf dude dont know how to use a grinder lol good rule to remember if you can see what your doing its aimed at youre eyes always wear safety glasses

[@giglefest]

Good job on the knife

[@jojobrownie57]

this guy is pretty funny, nice video man

[@thisolddog2259]

yikes! had a similar experience! so i went on amazon and bought a full length leather apron for about 70 bucks and feel much safer! i won't work without it! The E. R. adds alot of cost to a build! nice job on the knife

[@braindeadnewyorker9569]

It's coming out nice 👍

[@tannerinsco1108]

Very nice knife, it looks awesome I love your blade shape. I've found the same issue with the hammer dings being incredibly difficult to remove unless you have a very expensive belt grinder and a lot of time. Thanks for the video.

[@thejoneses100]

I’ve found you can knock out any minor pits in the steel with a harbor freight belt sander. 60-80 grit will take it out. Of course that assumes that you havent hardened the steel yet. Honestly any putting on the blade will just make it a perhaps less attractive blade, but as long as your edge is hard and fine, there’s no functionality lost

[@Musicmaddnes]

I was just considering taking my grinder guard off. Guess I won't now.

[@darkhawk574]

Yea, I had a disk break apart and hit my hand a while back. Scared the living crap out of me. Good thing I had welding gloves on. Needless to say, I use a guard now.

[@thesusboomerroblox6516]

@@darkhawk574 and I’ll be using chain mail but not the shit chain mail like the wrong stuff not the cheap stuff to save time there is multiple types

[@desert1cop]

They are delicous too

[@philreindl424]

Good stuff man, love it. Have you tried a metal cutting blade in a jig saw? Works awesome for cutting sheet steel.

[@FargoFX]

Phil Reindl awesome tip! Will try it out.

[@rmar127]

You need a Dutch door to keep the goats 🐐 out. 😃

[@osamabeenlacking2987]

Thank god the abs didnt got damaged

[@nibbnibb1899]

Really my friend. When the grinder sticks to material and almost injuring you,you kinda want to think about putting on some diff clothes. U gave yourself the best advice. No loose clothing. And you do exactly the same thing again. U know what,,,, i did it to. Haha. Lol. It was dangerous. So pls. ... if i post a vid of me using a anglegrinder with tight clothes and all the safety attachements on grinder you do the same pls:) safety first brother bladesmith:) respect sir. Kind regars nibb from sweden.

[@1unvbill]

Leather apron works to stop those nasty clothing catches.

[@MFO46]

What type of oil did (do) you use for quenching? This is the first of many questions I have. But will only ask one at a time.

[@zacherykissoon]

NEVER TAKE THE GUARD OFF AN ANGLE GRINDER. AS A MATTER OF FACT NEVER TAKE THE GUARD OFF OF ANY MACHINE OR TOOL.

[@jaredyoung5353]

Forge, how you do it? And hammer?

[@alanazevedo4026]

how did you make the forge u had? that looks pretty cool.

[@darkhawk574]

Safety Rule #1 of the shop: never wear loose clothing when working with rotary tools.

[@dylonrobinson7888]

Did the same thing with a huge craftsman angle grinder with 7 inch rock on it! Not fun! I wear a leather apron when grinding now

[@danielsims5869]

Is that anvil good? I've heard mixed things about it

[@maxheadroom7992]

Just found your videos and subscribed. Any thoughts on doing a kitchen knife in the future? Maybe even a Damascus-style blade? I'm not sure if it's possible with your setup, but It would be interesting to see if you could. Keep the videos coming though, and tuck your shirt in!

[@FargoFX]

Brian P Thanks! I did one chefs knife video a couple weeks back, part of my “three knives in three days” playlist. But yes, I’m not able to do Damascus with the charcoal forge, just doesn’t get hot enough for welding. Planning to upgrade to propane soon. Hope to tackle damascus this fall or winter. Thanks for the comment, cheers!

[@willdelfosse6567]

Hey man, just a quick question, what was the temperature at which you heated the blade

[@marinevet8853]

I did the same thing but with a wire wheel it was non the less extremely painful

[@richardkeefner6874]

Do you sell any of you knives ?

[@fredgarvin4482]

i have a dumb question. he heats the metal and then let it cool slowly. question is shouldnt it have been soft after this?

[@thejoneses100]

Yep. It’s called annealing. When you anneal a piece of steel, you heat the material enough to where the the molecular composition of the steel changes to a softer state. The point is to make the metal soft to where you can shape it easier. Then, you heat and quench in oil (or saltwater, or in a high silicate material to case harden on steels with too low of a carbon content to oil/water quench) to re-harden

[@thisolddog2259]

Fred Garvin not a dumb question that's how you aniel it for workability.. cut your profile, shape, bevel ,heat ,quench,temper,polish,sharpen,done!

[@fredgarvin4482]

ok. not throwing rocks or wanting to debate anyone in the comments. i have a question if you look on some forums of course you see different opinions about the probable steel that is lawn mower blades etc, etc... now that you have used low tech and high tech methods in your journey, i assume you have used "non-mystery metal" in addition to mystery lawn mower blade metal. question: what is your hands on qualified opinion of the edge retention and toughness of the "mystery metal LMB" vs bought steel blanks?

[@onethatdoes]

Imma bout to make a new knife😁

[@einhundertfunfzig4919]

I’m sorry but you couldn’t have used the angle grinder in a worse way! Firstly, you want the sparks to fly towards you. Secondly, there is a reason why angle grinders come with guards and Handels! Be safe buddy, and cool knife

[@duaneafields]

The worst part about most of the knife making videos on KZbin is...you’ll watch the entire video and there is usually no high quality reveal of the product in video or pictures or its less than 10 seconds reveal.

[@FargoFX]

Duane Fields Agreed! Unfortunately I didn’t do the reveal on this one because it’s in part two. Since then I’ve gotten better. I do appreciate the feedback though. Have a great day!

[@duaneafields]

Ahhh... Part two...excellent. Thank you for that. I subscribed.

[@FargoFX]

Duane Fields Wow Thanks! Subbing you back. 👍

[@detroitalden2474]

It actually don't make any sense to me knowing lawn mower blades are relatively a soft spring type steel! Why I have several times attempted to drill holes in lawn mower blades or make existing holes larger only to ruin several Good drill bits! Normally that only happens with Tempered Hard steel or Stainless? Hence after forming the knife then heating to temper only the cutting edge makes sense placing handle holes first and then heating for a final tempering seems logical. Did that make sense? Now though that I have seen somebody Actually repurpose a lawn mower blade to a knife blade I'd so like t try to. Thing is? I'm not a black smith and i don't have a heating forge suppose i can attempt doing it the anchant way? We'll see?

[@jonathanpinkston124]

I have a recommendation. Don't wear flip flops while forging!!!

[@FargoFX]

Jonathan Pinkston LOL. Yep, that sounds like great advice. Will be moving into winter soon, I’ll definitely be wearing better shoes then. Next summer I’ll have to invest in some steel toed flip-flops LOL.

[@stephencarmichael5156]

invest in a shop apron.

[@ryanmcgrath339]

I want stand channels like this. They upload videos and all the people reply about the video and all there subscribers comment on how good there work is but they ain't even got the time to comment back to anything anyone's saying so no complement from me just you need to learn some manners for your subscribers

[@robertyorke3935]

Flip flops dude, really do you think. 😢

[@giglefest]

Did that ever grab your shirt fast. Sucked it right in lol.

[@Themodernsmith]

DON'T WEAR GLOVES WHILE USING A ANGLE GRINDER!!!

[@joeykrieter4701]

Great vid, but please never wear thongs in a workshop, it makes me cringe so hard.

[@mikeonderchanin3026]

Sandals and shorts? Get real. Lousy example.

[@XG916]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@thedude2668]

John 3 6

[@dirtbikemike2956]

Don't wear loose clothes