Forging the X-Rhea Utility Knife with Lin Rhea, Master Smith and Stuart Smith
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 มิ.ย. 2017
- ABS Master Smith Lin Rhea demonstrates how to forge his X-Rhea utility knife at the Arkansas Historical Museum, Little Rock, Arkansas. ABS Apprentice Smith Stuart Smith of South Africa filmed and edited this step by step video and says: “The process is complete from beginning to send, not time lapse, just pure forging.” For more information on bladesmithing techniques please visit the ABS Forum at www.americanbladesmith.com/ipboard/
Any time someone makes something look this easy, effortless and thoughtless, has put more difficult time, effort and thought than we can fathom
Mr. Rhea makes it looks so easy, but we know better. Fantastic work.
Thank you for sharing.
What a guy! I remember meeting Lin at a hammer-in a few years ago. So skilled but so approachable!
Lin is a super helpful guy in my experience when folks want to learn.......
Awesome. This is a great way to get the blacksmith knife done. Thank you for sharing this with me
So skilled, very inspiring! Going to have to watch this a few dozen times.
It's hypnotizing to watch him work the steel..
Such a very skillful hand doing a very fine job .... a result is always a great work
Really enjoyed watching this!
Thanks for the tutorial. Great work!
thank you for sharing
Great Job Lynn
well done.
i like that old anvil...very nice!
thank you, I love this way of joining the handle to the blade.. A significant improvement on my next "squirrel tail" type knife I make...or did you call it a beaver tail...
👍 = there is nothing left to say! Everything perfect!
Rad knives, great job! But just so you know for the text in the intro, Arkansas is AR...AK is Alaska
"camel toe is taken" haha priceless
Maybe punching a square or rectangular hole through the beaver tail would save some time, and solve the problem of a too short rivet. A very cool mod to the Romano British knife.
What type of steel stock is he using ?
And what was the other way that he told you that he could have fixed the short rivet other than tack welding it?
Does putting the dogs leg in upset the steel at all?
th-cam.com/video/KyoyCJzmS0Y/w-d-xo.html here is another tutorial on my new channel
7:15 He's not even close to being finished and every face of the rat tail and the virgin bar-stock is perfect
15:15 holy moly that's so clean
Lin Rhea IS A Master Smith.-
Ordinarily, welding carbon steel isn't a great idea, and it's better for it to be entirely forged from a pure skill and craftsmanship perspective, but there's two things favoring the success of welding that rivet in this case. One, if all you need to do is fuse it with the arc and no filler added, the metallurgy is unchanged (provided you have adequate shield gas and don't hold the heat there forever). Two, it's not on a high stress area of the knife, a mild steel rivet should hold up fine, so even if you precipitate all the carbon out it's not going to affect strength. Bonus, you can forge out a filler rod from the same steel if you need to add material, it's such a small area that the carbon doesn't have time to precipitate out unless you take forever tacking it on.
34:15 There is no such thing as "cheating" in metalwork. If it works: It works
Never play the game "Mercy" with a smithie. They will crush your hand lol
Tends to happen when you play against any building, even a particularly strong smith would struggle in such a competition.
that's an easy knife to make
this knifeis extremely difficult
Thats what you call a woman's knife in sweden or a "krum kniv", bent knife but thats not a good translation.
None will see this but:
AK = ALASKA not Arkansas. 🙄
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I would have penned the heel back partially wrapping around the first finger.. I think way more aesthetically pleasing than that interrupted form here..
Do you have an Instagram or TH-cam page where we could see your work? Perhaps an example of what you’re proposing?
Charlie Bowen can you show examples of your work and are you a master smith?
@@annotten7413 Not sure why that would matter when someone is expressing an aesthetic preference.
Great work yet slightly presumptuous to name it after yourself considering it’s definitely not your design.... sits uneasy with me
I certainly am not aware of any blades with that particular variation of the blacksmith knife handle style that predate him. It is certainly possible even probable that someone has done it before, but he does appear to have made those improvements on his own.