How To Maкe a Bushcraft Knife ENTIRELY BY HAND, Without Power Tools and Without Forging

[@SvetsChannel]

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[@-IE_it_yourself]

3d printer? that came out of nowhere. great knife. subscribed.

[@gkaye9393]

WOW-------WHAT ELSE CAN BE SAID BUT WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Mike-kr9ys]

You made a really good knife in a challenging, hard working way. You made an impressive knife. Thanks for sharing your inspiring efforts with us

[@SvetsChannel]

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[@n.g.5234]

I don't know HOW youtube decided to recommend this to me, but I really like how you present information, straight to the point and no frills. You gained a subscriber :)

[@SvetsChannel]

Thanks! Much appreciated.

[@pranay24jify]

Its amazing work. All sweat and blood. Only thing I would have changed is the use of brass pin in handle just to make it more aesthetic to the handle colour.

[@SvetsChannel]

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[@misterpontypine]

I’ve subscribed! You are a natural teacher, you keep it simple, interesting, and easy to follow and copy. You are encouraging and enthusiastic. I will have a look at your other videos as I really like this simple but practical home made approach especially for countryside skills. Thank you 🙏

[@SvetsChannel]

Thank you so much for your kind words. And thanks for subscribing too! Much appreciated.

[@korgan7779]

Excellent Video, and excellent work! My father and I are majorly into DIY just long before the "DIY" Acronym was in wide spread use. We are both "Jacks off all trades, Master of none.." but I often add "..or a few" to the end of that. We often set around drawing up designs for various things including knife and axe head patterns that we'd like to make. So I very much enjoyed seeing someone else's take on how to do it yourself because face it, originally, before all the mass manufacturing of knives and tools, the items were made by their eventual user, and then adjusted as it needed to be for the jobs at hand. My only real critique (not really a negative one) would be, if a 3D Printer would be considered a power tool? I know it's knit picking but wondered if making a variation of Micarta by hand before processing the material into a handle the way you would have the Beachwood might have been more inline with your purposes here? Liked, Subscribed, looking forward to more! Best wishes!

[@SvetsChannel]

My respect goes to you and to your father! I tried to make the scales by hand, out of beech wood, as shown in the video. It was a flop. I believe a 3D printer is not considered a power tool, even if it does use electricity. But guess what else uses electricity! My kitchen oven which I used for tempering the blade. Is a kitchen oven considered a power tool as well? I don't think so, but I let the linguists answer this question, as English is not my native language. Thank you so much for subscribing!

[@amandameglio2903]

Very impressive! Thanks

[@SvetsChannel]

@@amandameglio2903 You're welcome!

[@geraldstamour1312]

Dope AF results, @SvetsChannel! Now it needs an equally dope sheath to complete the package!!

[@SvetsChannel]

Thanks! A sheath/scabbard video is coming up next.

[@MrOldclunker]

Just found your channel and enjoyed your knife making video. I just retired and picked up some steel to make a knife. Your design is going to be my first knife. I want to make a Nessmuk. The way you put the bevel on was very unique and this is something I will be doing on my knife for sure. The only thing I couldn't catch in your video was the first solution that you used to blue the knife. You picked up a new sub #839. I look forward to catching up on your videos. I'd like to obtain a good template for a Nessmuk if you have made them. So far most are from using an Old Hickory knife modification that I am not a fan.

[@SvetsChannel]

Hi, thank you for subscribing! I am glad that you have found my video useful. Yes, a lot can be accomplished with simple tools and easy to make jigs. For a Nessmuck design, I would use a picture of an existing commercial blade and I would modify it to my liking in Adobe PhotoShop or in Adobe Illustrator. There are also free alternatives like Photopea. Let me know if you need help designing your template. Greetings!

[@greencanopybushcraftsurviv6713]

Very impressive. Well done!

[@SvetsChannel]

Glad you liked it! Cheers!

[@JoeyKnifeInnovations]

Great stuff 💪🏼 Keep it coming im watching.

[@SvetsChannel]

Thanks! Will do!

[@JarheadAirsoft]

Super cool man!!! Underrated channel fr

[@SvetsChannel]

@@JarheadAirsoft I am glad that you like my video. Stay tuned for more. Thank you for your support!

[@noavan1]

gonna make one 😆

[@DrJuan-ev8lu]

Will 3D printed scales actually hold up in rough field use?

[@SvetsChannel]

Yes. I printed these handle scales using PLA-Plus filament which is pliable like nylon and doesn't snap or crack (unlike pure PLA). The prints were done at 100% infill and the orientation of the printer head strokes was lenghtwise. On top of all of this, I annealed the scales in an oven at a temperature of 95 degrees Centigrade which is beyond the re-crystallization temperature of PLA+. This made the scales even stronger. The liquid steel epoxy that I used to fix them to the tang of the knife further reinforces their integrity and strength. I have no doubts that these scales will hold up to any use or abuse in rough field conditions.

[@quintenbartlett]

Hello!

[@SvetsChannel]

@@quintenbartlett Hello! Welcome to my channel.

[@CvetaPopova]

Браво! Много полезно видео!

[@paulramos6767]

What does the oven step do?

[@SvetsChannel]

The oven step is called "tempering". It relieves the inner stresses inside of the steel that are caused by the sudden and violent quench. If you skip the tempering step, your blade will turn out very brittle and will break easily, like a piece of glass.

[@DrJuan-ev8lu]

Water quenching of high carbon steel from red hot turns the metal very hard and brittle: "hardening". Metallurgists call the structure martensite and the iron is in a specific crystal structure incorporating carbon and the low/trace amounts of alloying elements. The "tempering" step of heating and holding at modest oven temperatures allows some of the carbon to migrate out and some of crystal structure to revert back to normal ferrite. The result is a slight reduction in hardness and a big gain in toughness. There is also a significant reduction in any frozen in stresses that can result from differential shrinkage through the body of the blade as it is rapidly cooled.

[@paulramos6767]

@@SvetsChannel thank you

[@paulramos6767]

@@DrJuan-ev8lu very in depth lol thanks

[@DrJuan-ev8lu]

@@paulramos6767Shock cooling by water quenching is necessary in common carbon knife steels. But in later years alloy additions of certain metals has allowed slower and slower cool down from red heat. There are now knife steels that "air harden". The high temperature carbides are stable enough so that no special hasty cooling is necessary. This was important technology not so much for knives but to allow very large parts to be thru hardened. In big thick machine parts there are limitations on achievable quenching rates deep in the core of the part. And as you might expect, annealing these takes much longer.

[@Coordinator61]

I go online and buy a Helle knife.

[@SvetsChannel]

Me too. :) I own more than a dozen factory-made knives. With that being said, I see nothing wrong in making your own custom knife. You learn a lot in the process. Or even just for the fun of it. Thank you for leaving a comment.