WOOTZ steel from old drills and bearing balls . TANTO knife YIN YANG

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А почему рисунок на лезвии не проступил?

[@Al-L.]

I especially enjoy, that you are melting steel before forging and mix down a different sorts of steel, that can make absolutely infinite count of variations, thank you.

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[@lovejcdc]

Another masterpiece from the bladesmiths of the most badass blacksmith shop. Dude that anvil setup is freakin awesome. You really have a great setup.

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[@treese5648]

Watched this whole video without clicking on it until the end..man that was relaxing

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[@IIEasyLivingII]

Thanks for not adding music, I just wanted to hear the natural sounds of smithing

[@patrickrose1221]

Genius . Beautiful knife . I don't care what anyone says about tradition. Stuff like this will become tradition : )

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[@rallywagon261]

The art is in the metal, not the sandpaper. No doubt any old world master would have paid greatly to have access to a modern belt sander.

[@TrekTracks74]

Craftsmanship salute! Therapeutic video, great work, looks beautiful.

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[@shaggy_e210]

It's really cool how it just melts into a perfect little slug

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[@rubbercrutch1]

Gorgeous work. Not a tanto, but still gorgeous.

[@Ethercloud]

"Americanized" prettied up junk.

[@rubbercrutch1]

@@Ethercloud Americanized? The guy is Russian. There isn't anything American anywhere.

[@fz-makingknives3663]

Ukraine 🖐️

[@rubbercrutch1]

@@fz-makingknives3663 Ukraine! Sorry! I saw the .ru and assumed incorrectly.

[@Ethercloud]

@@fz-makingknives3663 it is not a compliment, the blade is missing the tanto signature design, the blade was also not folded metal, and the blade wasn't differentially treated (soft iron back, firm tempered steel blade). Not to mention your honing could use some work, there are many grades of whet stone. Functionally yes it is a knife in a pretty package, but not a tanto, nor an example of a traditional japanese production.

[@ghostwalkerairsofttech1947]

What a gorgeous piece of work!! I love the idea of using the dowel rod for tensioning the blade inside the saya!! Genius.

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[@mariacuachon3906]

Intrigued by the ingredients and mesmerized by the process but, am here to appreciate the finished product and the meticulous craftsmanship. Thanks for sharing👍

[@vedros6822]

Yin & Yang knife, nice.

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[@petryshchenkov2008]

Great job 👍

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[@weluvpixma8175]

A masterpiece

[@danb640]

This is not a knife, it’s an art masterpiece!

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[@genemcdonald6903]

You are truly a artistic Genius with anything you put your mind to, love to watch and will own something someday. Thank you for doing what you do. What a blessing you where given!!!

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[@ZOOBOXde]

I got it today, ty. 🤗

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[@Memento-_-Mori-_-982]

You lucky bastard 😂

[@paulwilson2204]

Did not realise I wanted blacksmithing channel shot in this style so badly. You should narrate your steps in the captions like Primitive Technology does!

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[@Richard-ov6vt]

Very nice, excellent skills and imma need one of those. Doesn’t have to be this week or anything. 👍🏻

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[@MarioGarcia-ps2gi]

One of the best handmade knife I have ever seen. You are a blessed man.

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[@kevinsmith5448]

most beautiful knife i've seen on youtube, and i've watched a lot of knife videos

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[@КиРПОЗ]

MASTER!!!!

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[@Philippe.63]

Very nice, but what's in the nutrilon box? and the small crystals?

[@lukasgoza4493]

yeah I'm curious too!?

[@Sk0lzky]

Borax. I can't say what the small crystals are, I'm assuming sulfur, original wootz was made with magnetite ore and carbon (in form of leaves and wood, he used charcoal I think) and chemical analysis point at sulfur impurities

[@EvilSewnit]

Glass I think

[@ryanybos]

Blown away at your skill level, your finished product, got some ideas from your techniques in the shop and laughed at the idiots criticizing you when 99% of them haven't made either blade #1 or their blade resembles that butter knife reluctantly retrieved from the garbage disposal. Great Job

[@fz-makingknives3663]

Thank you ☺️

[@mobiousenigma]

i only criticize the labeling of this process as DAMASCUS! when he is forge welding an older process which never gets to a liquid state. weather or not ive smithed anything or not is irrelevant nor have i questioned his skill only the incorrect title

[@patrickwalley9803]

I am a mechanical engineer with a background in metallurgy and have been blade smithing for 32 years now. This guy doesn't even know what wootz is. Yes he is an amazing blade smith but wootz is NOT pattern welded steel. Here is a link to some actual scientifically accurate info. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYGbgXahmKeNi5Y

[@alessandrofrioli6978]

Really nice to watch with a pint of Stout after a busy day. Thanks for sharing.

[@incognito9510]

I was in a trance watching this😳. Beyond superb craftsmanship. WOW‼️

[@nathanwright6264]

What are you adding to the crucible at the very beginning? There's three things that you dumped in at the very beginning besides the drill bits and bearings.

[@mythoti]

My guess is the bottom most components on top of the bearings are akin to thermite to melt them down, and the chips of rock on top likely act as a buffer to stabilize the process

[@DJDOUBLEWIDE]

Beautiful work!! I applaud your attention to detail. I like the shots of you wiping off your anvil. You know they say you can learn allot from a man by his hands. Yours are no stranger to the blade. Much discipline in those hands. Much love from Texas. Be Kind Stay Strong Always Question

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[@nimrodthewise836]

This is stunning work, only thing I don't like is the gluing of the tang.. I'm a big fan of the easy takedown aspect of Japanese blades.

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[@erickruckenberg8716]

This is absolutely gorgeous. Yin Yang design makes it perfect.

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[@jamesmorrison7847]

This was the most impressive video I've ever seen on knife making. You even managed to top Bob Kramer. Congratulations.

[@jimmyd6268]

You haven’t seen many videos huh

[@M.A.S.8513]

So. What was added into the crucible in the beginning??

[@biggusdickkus2956]

Zinc

[@Fred_Klingon]

Wow... Its perfect

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[@zachclay6091]

Beautiful work came out gorgeous. But I'm not sure that is what would be called a tanto?

[@theoriginalNoOne.]

Correct. I would say more like a drop point.

[@trooper4039]

Высший класс! Истинное наслаждение - наблюдать за процессом производства. С уважением к автору.

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Спасибо 👍

[@jamesmorton5017]

There is so much energy inbolded in steel production. The repurposing of steel is immensely gratifying.

[@305vibesss]

What was that first blob thing he dropped in the water along with the blade?

[@sureshotranch406]

Hot metal, to preheat the oil

[@freekingawwsome]

Nice knife thank you for the share

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[@kennydunk]

That's amazing

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[@albertofourie3294]

A master craftsman! Captivating to watch!

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[@jim-stacy]

Beautiful work. So precise and measured with tool use. Its a joy to qatch an artist at work

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[@Hogbellylife]

What was the last 2 things you put in the crucible?

[@fz-makingknives3663]

Dolomite and glass

[@Hogbellylife]

@@fz-makingknives3663 ok thanks

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[@pyro3rg]

Can we get a pinned comment about what all went into the crucible? Old drill bits and ball bearings, but what was the rest of that stuff?

[@jorgelopeztorres68]

Grate job!...don't mind the haters, they can't even make a butterknife if there life depended on it.

[@alexbeedie6940]

I'm a simple man and this is an art I can appreciate.

[@TheArne24]

Wer hätte nicht auch gerne so ein schönes Stück ☝️ Top Handwerk!!

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[@Fisal087]

I love that

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[@jonnie13black]

no crap music! no reminiscing about some lost girlfriend! no shameful product placement! just a great forger doing great work. beautiful job man.

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[@patrickwalley9803]

Calling this wootz is actually shamelessly plugging his own product. This guy has not posted a single video in which he makes wootz but in nearly every vid he claims it is wootz. He is a master craftsman and true artist but he is also either uneducated or a flat out liar. I have been chasing wootz for 19 of my 32 years of blade smithing and so far the only guy found that's managed to get it right is in this link kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYGbgXahmKeNi5Y

[@jonnie13black]

@@patrickwalley9803 have you asked him why he insists its wootz?

[@patrickwalley9803]

@@jonnie13black I consider what he calls wootz and figure he just likes using fancy words to sell products. Not only does he use the term incorrectly he uses it inconsistently.

[@jonnie13black]

@@patrickwalley9803 ok i can understand your perspective. but he still has great skills from my zero experience in making knives opinion. pity he hasnt addressed your concerns. because misrepresentation is exactly that.

[@robcemento9605]

Nice work. That said...The shape of blade is not Tanto. The pride of building such a work of art is so much better than anyting you can jist buy.

[@fz-makingknives3663]

Thanks 👍. Kaiken knife is a kind of Tanto.

[@robcemento9605]

@@fz-makingknives3663 oh, nice. Thanks again!!!

[@darcybrawataakaontariostac6835]

What a beautiful piece of craftsmanship.

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[@alexp.3152]

True craftsmanship. Impressive!

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[@PKmuffdiver]

Just trying to figure out why there's a bunch of thumbs down on this video? Looked pretty damn good to me.

[@camputee1]

Yes... This is a fine blade. It is only partly wootz though. I wouldn't downvote for that reason because I know that wootz is a tricky beast.

[@bomboklaa]

Спасибо, теперь я знаю, что для крепкой стали нужно добавлять чайную ложку детского питания. Никогда бы не подумал

[@fz-makingknives3663]

Это был доломит в коробке из под датского питания.

[@bomboklaa]

@@fz-makingknives3663 а это была шутка. Удачи вам в ремесле, у вас действительно есть талант. Однако, правда ли ножи, имеющие форму клинка, как на видео, можно называть танто?

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[@northstar7694]

I respectfully suggest that you misunderstand the term "Wootz steel". The term " Damascus steel" could be used to discuss the the way the knife was made, but not Wootz. Excellent video and a very beautiful knife. Very well done.

[@hengkyabimanyu8806]

I have such hobby,,but I've got not a lot of tools to do that,,,and it's very beauty knife,,,i love black on white and white on black ,,so harmonic 👍👍👍👍

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Thanks 👍😊

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[@MichaelHernandez-lc2wb]

Your time to reply the comments is as impressive as your talent. Great work

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Thanks 😊

[@SuburbanEskimo]

This is a beautiful piece, I'm dumbfounded by the amount of dislikes, fkin trolls, I think it's brilliant, well done, A Yuv It!!!

[@makingconnections777]

Unfortunately, racism against the Chinese has increased.

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Exactly....nice words

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[@juliamilford1979]

Beautiful work, never mind the nitpicking idiots who can hardly feed themselves with a table knife let alone make anything so perfectly lovely!

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Thanks 👍💪

[@tbrs4064]

This needs more likes 😂

[@ecastedo]

Great work. I hope you have someone to teach all this, and pass this art to the next generations.

[@chuck25]

was about to watch like 30 sec, ended up watching till the end. a masterpiece. very good job!

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[@chuck25]

@@fz-makingknives3663 no need, you deserved it ;)

[@phg4977]

Imagine this with grenadilla wood and maple. I really like the idea of symmetry and duality. I don't like the materials. It looks pretty plastic ish.

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[@xeptix]

Looks like delrin. So yeah, literally plastic. I agree a dark and light wood pairing would look and feel nicer.

[@chpsilva]

Exactly my thoughs, such a beatifully forged blade deserved a fine wooden handle.

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[@un0RRS]

Just putting all the ingredients together and melting them doesnt make it wootz Damascus. The impurities that give wootz its distinct properties get burned off if any oxygen makes it into the crucible, which is why you're supposed to seal it. If the impurities you needed were there, it would have crumbled like a muffin as soon as you smacked it with that hammer, because real wootz needs to have the exterior of the cake decaborized, then cycled above and below glowing several times, then it needs to be carefully worked until it solidifies and forms the carbide structure that gives it that distinctive etch that looks like water on a rolling boil with cluster sheets of carbides. It's a nice piece, but it isn't wootz. The etch never lies.

[@kektesnotcactus]

thank you metallurgist ☺️

[@fijispartan3488]

But will it keal??

[@thelastsheepdog]

Exquisite Craftsmanship, those who can do, those who can't criticize ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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[@kevinarksey9828]

Highly skilled people always make it look easy. wish i could do that.

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[@patrickwalley9803]

I appreciate what's going on here but this is not wootz. The chemical composition is wrong though it is a high quality crucible steel it is just not wootz. Calling it wootz is like calling cast iron stainless because it had some nickel in it. But fantastic work! The end product is beautiful.

[@Sgtassburgler]

It is more like calling any brown bear a kodiak bear. Not only is wootz of a particular composition but it is also a particular ore from a particular part of India. It would be like saying tap water is Fiji water.

[@onlybugwit]

What exactly is Wootz?

[@patrickwalley9803]

@@onlybugwit it's a crucible steel made Frome ore with a particular chemical composition found in only one mine in the world. Aside from the ore composition a crucible is used to make it into a usable metal after which it is worked within a specific temperature window to produce a billet with a specific crystalline structure. That structure is what creates the pattern in the steel. Blades have to be ground from the billet because any further forging past the billet stage destroys that crystaline structure and it is no longer wootz. This guy is making pattern welded steels (incorrectly called Damascus) and plain crucible steel. He is making amazing blades of very high quality. He is an amazing craftsman but he is not making wootz

[@patrickwalley9803]

@@onlybugwit kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYGbgXahmKeNi5Y

[@491n4he5]

As soon as he started pounded it, it hit me...I need some more cow bell

[@stevesyncox9893]

Definitley not wootz or tanto, good work either way.

[@dahotrod1533]

There are different variants of tanto

[@fz-makingknives3663]

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[@TheHookBoy]

Ok, the entire process and final product was straight up beautiful.

[@marknarvaez8852]

Man i can't stop looking at this video it's just so vixen on how it's done that's a beautiful knife

[@fz-makingknives3663]

Thanks 👍

[@bennezhberg747]

A beautiful, very well made knife but has absolutely nothing to do with wootz or tanto. With all due respect

[@canadatrap9217]

All woozt steel is is crucible steel if we're talking about the classical use it'd be referred to as Damascus. And as a fine gentleman said somewhere here in the chat it is a tyep of tanto and is commonly used in wedding ceremonies.

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[@calebreutener870]

Buying that many ball bearings probably put you on a watchlist somewhere

[@fz-makingknives3663]

😂👍

[@slimaldo1638]

Protein powder?

[@apocalypticwarrior9695]

Dolmite and borax

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[@ianvineyard3138]

I don’t even watch knife videos but damn, that thumbnail was hypnotizing!!!

[@ahaishah4095]

I'm just hypnotized by your creativity. It's really beautiful 😍

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Thanks 👍

[@languagedead2397]

Just cuz you melt a bunch of Steel together doesn't mean you can call it wootz

[@patrickwalley9803]

The fact that he is melting steel together is proof that is isn't wootz at all. He is an amazing craftsman but from all of his videos Ive seen I really feel like he honestly has no clue what wootz actually is.

[@_db612]

@@patrickwalley9803 or either what heat treating is, he didn't temper the blade, first time the knife drops it's gonna go in pieces..

[@FrankyFrank72]

Nice project brother but I don't know if you was trying to follow a Japanese way of making it but if you were I'm sorry to tell you that that does not look like a Tanto blade because it lacks the correct curvature if you were going the Japanese way, other than that nice project.

[@Sk0lzky]

Read more about tanto. There are a lot of blade shapes within "tanto" family. Ken tanto for example is completely straight." "japanese" way is obviously not wootz, it's actually fairly inefficient too

[@TortuousFlame63]

Thought it was supposed to be a tanto?

[@Arcainmech2]

It is this is a traditional shape pretento tried to do a little more research befor posting foolishness

[@stevendelvecchio3721]

Absolutely beautiful piece. To see it all the way through from making the wootz to the finished piece. Awesome work. It isn't a Tanto though without the correct tip configuration. Not knocking your work, I can't. It is beautiful, just not a Tanto.

[@fz-makingknives3663]

Kaiken tanto?

[@davidearls6945]

A master knife maker, I really enjoyed watching you make the knife. Awesome job.

[@fz-makingknives3663]

Thanks 👍

[@richb2229]

I don’t think that’s actual Wootz Steel. Wootz has a very specific micro crystalline structure and has an origin in India not Japan. Also a little too much shaping of the blade on the sander vs forging. But it is a very nice looking knife.

[@flodgey]

This doesn't look like a tanto. The blade looks more like a regular hunting knife.

[@fz-makingknives3663]

Kaiken variety of tanto

[@flodgey]

@@fz-makingknives3663 ahhhh got it. Tnanks for the clarification!

[@rsgolden3566]

Silent movies were never a thrill for me. Might help if you said what your ingredients are when putting them into crucible!

[@erickstjames]

Very creepy IMO. Fascinating nonetheless.

[@MatthewStClair-uy9sm]

Just watched your YIN YANG knife video. Beautiful work. You've inspired me to try my hand at making one.

[@thangbiaklun4595]

This might be th 10 time i watch this beautiful knife making in 1 month. Want to have that knife

[@tuckamorecustomknives4550]

Nice knife, nice crucible steel...but not “Wootz”.🤠

[@fz-makingknives3663]

Wootz zz)

[@cliffordhenderson6619]

Nice knife but the blade isn’t right for a Tanto

[@drewcanton235]

Note: You can't do this project if you've "lost your bearings"... 😁

[@jfilm7466]

I wish that my old shop teachers could have shown us what we could really do. I really want to try this with my kids.

[@fz-makingknives3663]

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[@marksalmon6403]

Awesome knife and design. Love the incorporated yin and yang symbols!

[@fz-makingknives3663]

Thanks 👍

[@jackmclane1826]

Adding more carbon, because CLEARLY HSS drill bits and 100Cr6 bearing balls don't have enough carbon... ;)

[@Sgtassburgler]

Why say wootz steel when you are not using or making wootz?

[@wpjohn91]

I agree. Wootz was from the indian region which they used to make original damascus. This is just making cool stuff out of scraps

[@filipefaria5229]

That's a knife, not a tanto. A tanto is made very different. At least you have to make it with 2 different steals one soft and one hard. But it's a nice knife.

[@fz-makingknives3663]

Thanks

[@tuk1355]

Сложная, интересная, красивая работа! Великолепно!!!!!!

[@fz-makingknives3663]

Спасибо 👍

[@josephevans6777]

Man that's a great looking knife! A lot of time and hard work pays off! Great job!

[@fz-makingknives3663]

Thanks 👍

[@cruiserdonrussell4799]

How do you qualify your process of batching high speed alloy's as "wootz" ? The wootz process is nothing like what you are doing !

[@languagedead2397]

Exactly

[@heavymetalworks6375]

Very nice blade but its not a tanto blade profile.

[@fz-makingknives3663]

Kaiken ?

[@lorddestructive]

nice work and nice knife. but please dont call it tanto, a tanto is bigger and has a different blade form and is assembled way differently. this is a japanese inspired knife, not a bit more

[@fz-makingknives3663]

Kaiken

[@lorddestructive]

@@fz-makingknives3663 but not at all a tanto

[@lairdcummings9092]

Gloriously beautiful.

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Thanks 👍