Wrought Iron CruForgeV San Mai Chef Knife

[@timothyleebrown1593]

Salem Straub, I have followed you since I started watching forged in fire years ago. I recognize that you are far more gifted and your attention and creativity is a cut above the rest!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@shawnstarley2780]

I love how clean and smooth your work is. These old industrial tools are also awesome. I always feel like I can pick something up when watching your vids. You do fantastic work.

[@Anderson-HandForged]

Salem loving this series so far you do beautiful work and anything i can learn in the process is a plus apprciate your hard work doing these videos Mark ✌✌👍👍

[@Logan.H.L]

Man I would love to spend a month in your shop! So many sweet sweet toys… I mean tools, I mean toys ;)

[@bobgore1962]

Any content that you feel is worth sharing, is worth watching in my book! Thanks for sharing my brother! 💯🙏🏻😎👍🏻🔨🔥🔪

[@Semerich_Knives]

Hi, friend! I'm from Russia, I'm glad I came across your channel, I also make knives and will be glad to follow your work! Thank you for your efforts, I know how hard it is to make good content!

[@PrometheanBlade]

Cheers, hello in Russia! You are entirely welcome.

[@the_sharp_carpenter]

Always a good day for a Salem upload

[@Labrador_Forge]

I love seeing the control of that big beaudry!

[@42icee]

Excited for this albeit I do enjoy the equipment and such as well. Thanks Salem!!

[@davidwright4361]

Great video! I've learned a lot from your videos, so thanks for sharing.

[@knifesoul]

Great! I love Your videos so much.. They are really inspirative,..

[@brysonalden5414]

As always, got new information (to me) from this. Thanks! I have a similar build in process.

[@RaymondDennis-pq8wr]

Another great start to a build I like the way you describe what you are doing leaving very little guess work . I recently completed some good and solid mosaic Damascus with a twisted Damascus edge bar this would not have been possible for me without the content of your channel . Thankyou .Looking forward to the completion of this one

[@PrometheanBlade]

Far out! Thanks for sharing your outcome, that’s exactly what I hope for when posting these!

[@erickidwell4772]

Awesomeness!

[@ajcondon1374]

Hell yeah. Pumped

[@GibsonCutlery]

Making it look easy! Awesome stuff man.

[@lunkydog]

I liked that you mentioned easing down to your stock on the surface grinder. Everytime i see Shurap just place the material down onto the magnet and immediately run it under the wheel, it scares me. Of course I'm used to a stone and not a belt, but it still freaks me out.

[@PrometheanBlade]

He may be doing stuff like setting it all up and finding the surface off camera… since I want to be fully instructive, I think it’s good to show the whole method at times.

[@lunkydog]

I would hope that's the case, but it's setting a bad example for potential newbies, and I'm not a safety Sally. Lathe Chuck wrenches left in is the same for me, probably because of how I was taught over 45 years ago. I've been known to keep a hand on my Chuck wrench and lead off like a base runner to grab something in reach in my own shop with zero distractions. I occasionally used a lathe at a friend's shop that had a headstock mounted chuck wrench holder that held them vertically just behind the chuck. Terrible idea in my opinion.

[@PrometheanBlade]

@@lunkydog I concur.

[@Hammer757]

Great video as always Salem. And perfect timing, I just finally finished the last knife from CMA so I think Ill follow and do this one. Happy New Years to you and your family!

[@PrometheanBlade]

Sweet! Good to have you along for the ride! Cheers and Happy New Year!

[@Udeus5]

Great seeing you doing a build video again. Two questions. First: do you bother calculating the additional thickness of nickel shim in making say a Go-Mai? Second: any reason you did a MIG weld instead of a fuse TIG weld?

[@PrometheanBlade]

Great question. Yes I’d absolutely calculate the added thickness for go mai, depending on the relative dimensions of everything and how I want the various layers to present on the finished bevels. As for mig here? It’s faster and I’ll just be grinding the edges back a fair bit anyway. It’s not as critical as say an added bolster where I can’t distort or grind it much during processing.

[@Jiminycroquet]

the link in the description to your patreon is not working

[@PrometheanBlade]

Thanks for letting me know!