Turn A 2€ Rusty Knife Into High-End Japanese Chef's Knife
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 มิ.ย. 2019
- I found this big knife at a local flea market in a bucket of "everything 2€" miscellaneous items. I bought it with the intent of lightly restoring it but after a close inspection I thought I was better off doing something more interesting with it since the construction was pretty bad, with un-even grinds, terrible pins and poor materials. After removing the rust I could also tell it has pretty much no historical value since it has no marking at all.
So here we go! In this video I go through the entire process of turning it into a better looking (and better performing of course) chef's knife.
The design is pretty close to a kiritsuke, but it's much bigger than most measuring 43cm (17inch) overall with 30cm (12inch) blade 6.5cm (2.6inch) wide and 2.5mm (0.1inch) thick.
I tried to develop an hamon on the blade for aesthetic reason but without success, maybe the steel is not prone to show it since the harness is definitely different from spine to edge before and after tempering. Or maybe some other reason, I didn't wanted to spend the time to figure that out anyway. I had also another issue with the heat treatment where the refractory cement expanded and got stuck in the blade holder inside the oven, I had to quench everything... Yeah... That wasn't pretty at all!
The handle is made of iroko and ebony wood, with a mild stainless steel guard and some red felt and white paper liners, the process of making the spacers is better described in this video:
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Index of operation and materials:
0:27 Remove handle with metal cutting band saw
0:52 Remove rust with angle grinder and steel wire wheel disk
1:25 Clamp with copper under holes to stop welds
1:40 Stick weld the old pin holes to close them
2:20 Grind excess weld with angle grinder and grinding disk
3:00 Straighten tang with heat and vise
3:26 Annealing
3:38 Wire wheeling scale off
3:48 Trace new blade geometry
3:58 Cut most material with metal cutting band saw (steel soft after annealing)
4:25 Refining shape and grinding new bevels on 2x72 belt grinder
5:25 Wrapping with steel wire to help refractory cement sticking
6:00 Refractory cement used to develop hamon (fail)
6:20 Hardening
6:30 Quench in warm vegetable oil
7:00 Removing wire and cleaning blade
7:29 Bad tempering. My oven is too small for this blade and home oven out of reach
8:00 Final bevel grind
8:15 Hand sanding to 400grit sandpaper
8:37 Etching in ferric chloride for a dark matt finish (no hamon unfortunately)
8:50 Making liners with red felt white paper and resin
10:05 Iroko wood
10:37 Glueing the handle stack with 5 min epoxy resin
11:10 Grind square
11:30 Drill tang hole, 10mm in diameter
11:50 Mark and center puch guard holes
12:00 Drilling with 2.5mm bit
12:17 Grinding back side with dremel and thick cut off disk to save some file work
12:36 Filing to size
13:20 Tang dowel, cut to lenght on band saw
13:30 Took to the exact diameter by spinning on a plate with hole drilled with same bit as the tang hole
13:54 Splitting the dowel
14:02 Enlarge the slot to match the tang thickness on slack of 2x72 belt grinder
14:30 Final glue up with epoxy resin
14:53 Grinding handle to shape on 2x72 belt grinder
15:20 Hand sanding up to 600 grit
15:48 Boiled linseed oil as finish
16:08 Sharpening on the slack of the 2x72 with very high grit belt
Thanks a lot for watching, I hope you liked the video!
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me at 2am: alright im going to bed
me at 4:30am:
Its exactly 4:30 am when i read this, i feel you brotha
Fax xxxxxxxxx
same
It’s 2 am and I start to worry
That's 3:43 am now where i live, and can't stop watching it ahahaha
*checks watch at 3:30am*
Goodnight everyone.
Night
Wahhhhh I sleep at 1:40 am and it’s 10
it’s 5:30am rn, i have stayed up all night, i have school-
thank god i’m doing online tho
It’s 6 am now In america
7:30 am my dude. Anxiety kept me up and brought me here
That is a long intro for a tutorial on how to prepare melon.
😂 lol
lmfao
😂😂😂
By the looks of his left forearm, he's sharpened a lot of knives
How can you tell?
@@supaMcnugget09 because there is not a lot of hair, and he shaved his arm-hair with the knive he sharped.
@@rojdakisa7620 oh okay lol ty
The likes are nice
@@schizophil1 69 is trash
I was so confused when he wrapped that thing in wire
Me too. I didn't know what I was supposed to be looking at after he cut the wire off, scraped the 'stuff' off & displayed the blade....erm ok?!?
As I understand it, the purpose is for the goo/clay/cement stuff to shield the spine during the quench so that the edge can get hard without the spine getting brittle. The resulting visual effect of this is called a hamon, I believe. The clay won't stick to the blade as is so that's why you wrap the blade in wire; to give the clay something to hold on to.
@@datruommi Thanks for that......obviously I'm a layman but it was very fascinating.
Leap mačeta
It’s called casting or forging
Dudes literally got all this wood, materiel and shit, and cuts his food on a damn Tupperware lid
I was like “alright it makes sense so far” and then he pulls out the fuckin brick layer lmao
Friend: Wow playing a violin seems so cool!
How it feels playing on a violin: 16:07
As a fellow violinist, I can attest
I play viola, and trust me, it feels like hell in the beginning but gets better with some practice 😃
@@mallek7567 My fingers do be complaining 😞
i play guitar but same, cus my mexican parents tell me to press the cord s as hard as I possibly can and it hurts my fingers
Next : I wanna see you take a rusty Honda and turn it into a high end sports car.
Lol
class mate
make it italian also..
Go watch boostedboiz videos lmao
Everybody knows Honda's don't rust. They are just self lightening.
- You know I've got a big Japanese knife at home.
- oh, what are gonna do with it?
- shave my hair.
Im just saying if theres a zombie outbreak we need this guy
So he can derust our knives?
Holds the blade by the edge while using a bandsaw. You’re a friggin' genius.
I'd say that it's prbably quite dull in that rusty state it was in.
Never mind, he did it again later after sharpening it.... I should have waited with my post.... -_-
625iq
Weapon Name: Rusty Knife
Condition: Badly Damaged
Element: None
Damage: 98-134
Super effective against: Non vaccinated kid (x4 dmg)
Element: diseases
Bruh
*Modern problems require modern solutions*
Damn with people of today that means it’s effective against a large portion of American children. lol
@@imreallytired4457 علي من لاك
where the funny at
How to turn a $2 knife into a more expensive looking $2 knife
Hahahaha
Yeah and why does he specify "japanese" is it because the style or he wants to milk weaboos and the algorithom :just saw description but still think its milking
@@sharkisha-lekondra-mebarbo914 Who cares? You either enjoyed watching the video or you didnt.
The time you spent hand filing the slot, you could have got a cheap file blade, cut the back end of it into a tang that fit into a sawzall and filed the slot out. The whole process would have taken about ten minutes and then you'd still have the file blade for next time.
@@THX-vb8yz😆😆😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈 x
Watching these I was like " dude calm down" then after a while, oh , the video is fast forwarded. I felt stupid for a while. So your video deserves a like
I love these videos, I have no idea what you're doing half the time so it's just pure smooth brain delight for me 🤩
Me too
Video ASMR
ik right i love these types of videos
I have watched another one of these in my recommended and now my recommended looks like I am planning a murder😂
Edit: Tysm for the likes 😁 I have never got this many. Thanks!
mine too. Machining gun parts ... knives ... an anvil and other things
I watched gunshot wounds and stab wounds healing timelapses and youtube thinks im a doctor/surgeon
Same🤣😂
Same 😂😂😂
Jack Williams samee
13:36 My brain: Don’t
Ooo I get it
I was looking for this comment lmaO
Thought I was just immature but it seems we all are😔
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@@freshbread4039 LOL
😳
description would be more accurate with "Japanese style" since the blade is double bevel whereas actual Japanese chef's knives are single bevel . still a nice knife.
Thanks for the tip captain bevel.
not all Japanese chefs knives are single bevel ... in fact thats a feature one only a few very specific knives the majority are a dual bevel convex grind this is mostly due to the habit of using laminated steel due to their poor quality ore so the majority of their traditional blades are san mai or greater so only the core steel is hardened with mild steel jackets thus dual beveled
but hey what do i know im just a career blacksmith with 27 years of experience under my belt 23 of which has been making blades .... go read master bladesmith Murray Carter's book he studied traditional bladesmithing in japan for 18 years ...good read... some of it pertaining to heat treatment is bullshit of course but good read nonetheless
@@filipfranek729 stay tuned for future bevelopments
I love the fact that we’re 7 millions who saw this and just go:
iNteReStINg
Looks like "spending 2000$ to turn 2$ knife into 20$ knife" :P
Profit
Stonks
And he still leaves too much pitting :/
he has over 3 million views.. It was worth it
Azziee well he already had the stuff ?
Her dad: What are your intentions with my daughter?
Me: 13:35
Robert Ambrose ikr
😂😂😂😂😂
WTF dude?????😂😂
DAMN DUDE 🤣🤣🤣
11:26 , 11:33 , 13:35 🤣🤣🤣
Netflix: are you still watching?
Someone’s daughter right now: 13:35
1:39 when you switch to discord light mode:
Today: 2$ rusty knife to high end Japanese knife
Tommorow: 1$ pipe to high end Japanese sword
or rusty american car into high end japanese quality?
It fooking euros
lols
Oh cleaver! Trying to degrade the man's work is what women do to men, like to try again?
Okay it’s five months later, shouldn’t it now be “paper clip” into the large hadron collider
This guy owns every kind of tools ever made by humans on earth but couldn’t find a chopping board!!
Nice work though :)
Great comment hahahahhahaha
Lol 👍👍👍
He could've made one in the process
@@justiny.defenceforce189 yeah
Why not z
Rocomarziaano
Your work is really great, truly artistic and seeing this makes me happy!! Awesome!!
Многие люди выкидывают старые вещи ,а Вы молодец превращаете их в шедевр . Благодарю Вас за видео.
how did you make it japanese
@ThatSalmiacGuy XD
he used google translate
He forced it to watch anime
Devo Blanco he used a Japanese blade tempering technique
Title is missing "style" after "Japanese". But tbh this is YT in 2019, do you think it'd make 3 mln views without hyped up title?
The Teacher: Don't Make Any Noise.
That One Kid: 0:57.
I think this is the third time I've watched this video. I just keep coming back to it.
what i love about this channel that isn't like other channels is that this guy doesn't spend 5 minutes showing you every angle possible of the knife. thank you
“Honey, why is there little hairs in my fruit?”
Looks away grinning*
Girlfriends Dad: “What are your intentions with my daughter?”
Me: 13:37
nice
Girlsfriends Dad: Me too
@@Saffron_Man Alabama 100
@@lekirbgames1644 Thats racist. You gotta expand the amount of states! Like
Missisippi 50
Georgia 50
Tennesee 50
Florida 25
@@poppyseed.3421 racist.. is for race.. but okay
Great Job man. while watching you put it together more than a couple times i was wondering where I was going to be able to source the miscellaneous parts. So I was glad to see you have an online store front. I think a kiln would be my first investment. I could go digital like you, or a propane home made style first to test the "water" its all in what I want out of a finial product from there.
thanks for the great vid.
liked and shared.
"There's an issue here. There is no physical connection between the blade and the handle, it's only glued. That is why it would be unsafe to hammer your blade against a 600 lb block of sheer lead. Thus I invite you to shake your opponents hand and then ask you to leave the forge."
Lol
This isn’t forged in fire dude xd
Lmao your knife doesn't cut.
Pretty sure it will keel tho
Lol about to comment the same thing
If only everyone had that kind of patience and dedication to making things better rather than throwing them away... Very well done!
When he welded the tang my heart dropped
I really feel that you messed up the tang making it so thin. Hope it don’t snap at the handle when ya use it.
how does this guy manage to just stay silent, I'd be talking to myself or singing out loud during the whole thing
silent legend
probably headphones
He: *finishes a knive*
His hairs: *no please don't*
This is the comment I came looking for 🤣
@Mikan Tsumiki lol thanks
@@WanhedaPY 😂😂
@@WanhedaPY same X
What makes this knife *"High-End Japanese Chef's Knife"?*
Idk
I think that's how japanese knifes looks like
Its high end
And used in Japanese kitchens
@@sailingboat8309 if i use it in Zimbabwean kitchens does it become Zimbabwean Chef's knife?
@@ike7539 its about the design im like 90% sure
The fact that you did so much of this barehanded is a bit alarming. Kept expecting the blade to catch wrong on a tool and go flying
With some of the tools it’s better to not wear gloves as the gloves can get caught in them and do even more damage
John Lydgate said “You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”.
Personally I think you did a great job. 👍
Personally I think you're an idiot.
Paraphrase of Abe Lincolns - You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Maga man: Says the person with a picture of the biggest idiot the worlds ever seen next to them. 😏
redroyandeb he has a point this guy did a terrible job on the knife, he absolutely ruined it and many a people are led to believe that this knife was done well.
I must have missed the High-End and Japanese Chef part, but apart from that, nice job
He used a differential heat to make the spine soft and the cutting edge hard.
Considering 99% of chefs knives out there don't do that I'd call that high end.
@@kkknotcool It doesnt work like that. Putting clay on an already heat treated knife does nothing.
@@kkknotcool this is far away from High End, the shape is not Japanese chef its manga pirate sword and the heat treatment methods, hundred of years old and done so la la... Still all solid hard passionate hobby work, but the titel doesn't match the product, that's all im saying.
He applied for and got Japanese Citizenship, it said so on the passport.
@@Bennowolf21
Clay on a hot knife keeps the metal from touching the water in the quench.
The speed of the cooling is what makes different crystals in the steel.
It's not as effective as heating the edge directly but it's a proven method.
Awesome skills, awesome tools, awesome end product, awesome video! Thank you
you have no idea how much I regret not watching this video when it was first recommended.
Back when TH-cam suggested this video I was making a lawnmower blade knife and I wanted to try differential hardening on the blade. My improvised plaster of paris method did not give the result I was looking for. Well, it can cut stuff at least...
what you did with wire and clay looked so much more elegant. I had trouble getting clay to stay on while heating.
That trick with the slotted dowel back into the handle is brilliant
More like idiotic, but what do you know.
I watched you restore a knife and I learned a way to better slice a cantaloupe!
Thanks for sharing this fascinating project ... I saw some new things and learned some new tricks and for this old dog, that's quite the task.
Also, kudos on your extensive notes and timeline ... it really does help those of us that are new to this type of restoration.
Cheers ...
No one:
Literally No One:
Some random bugs in my room at 3am: 0:55
Where lockdown has brought me 😂🔥
Ikr
Yes me to 😂😂😂
The sad truth lmao
Anyone else watch these kinda videos for the satisfying high speed clanking sounds?
NMECuPcAkE52 me i like the souds
No,just fan of big ass knifes and axes
Me
Nope.
Its ASMR, he just doesn't put it 9n the title
looks absolutely stuning. but it needs a little sharpening. get some wetstones and give that thing a good edge. all that work and then end up with a knife that barely cuts a tomato.
Video title: Japanese chef's Knife
Me: ZANGETSU!!
I enjoyed watching the show. But what you made was not a Japanese Chef's Knife.......Completely different.......From Japanese
Absolutely, the Japanese know how to make a fine knife!
a k tip wa gyuto with a hamon line? NOOOOO. NO WAY
I'm pretty sure a "high-end" Japanese Chef's knife wouldn't struggle even a little bit to get through a cantaloupe skin!
there fake as fuck videos
@@kevinmorrice no, but cheap steel isn’t gonna turn high-end by taking rust off of it. He designed it to look like one.
Yeah, that was embarrassing 17:50
i think he meant high end by the fact he heat treated it? that doesn't matter though, dont post hateful shit please!
@Leopards 2334 What exactly was "hateful shit? Really, you labeling anybody's opinion you don't agree with as "hateful shit", really was the only hateful comment I see.
16:39
For a second I was thinking this man was gonna chop his hands of
nobody:
the fly in my room: 0:52
You put in that thing so much love and passion
Man that's Amazing!
You are a Artist!
You lost me when you cut the tang down!
I thought he was going to cut into the knife to lengthen the tang. Nope. Complete opposite.
Amazing work just don't cut anything harder than butter so you won't snap the tang off
Maybe so but the reality is that he created a chef's knife. You know what chef's DON'T do with chef knives? CHOP BONE or anything heavy like that. Chef knives are meant to do delicate work....ask me how I know!
Gentlemen's Edge how do you know
Gentlemen's Edge its been a month plz tell us how you know
I got an ad for Japanese chef knifes when I opened the video lol
I found that that part were he's getting off all that dirt and rust really satisfying
No
@@puppified Yes
All of my knifemaker friends always ask me how I can tell instantly which hand they use to test their knives, and all I have to do is look at which arm has no hair.
Lol that's how I know when to finally stop sharpening my knife. My left arm always has bald patches .
I know right.
You turned that into an awesome chef knife! I would love to have it!! Keep the good work up and thank you for sharing that!!
Kwiiten :/ I have a chef knife. I would like to buy the one he made. God did not bless me with the talent to do what he does! That's why I would like to buy it I wasn't saying that because I wanted him to give it to me nor do I think I deserve it for no reason. But if he was interested in selling it I would be interested in buying it. I think he should be paid for his talent!
Kwiiten :/ why do you care about my age and how much I cook? How old are you and how much do you cook?
Kwiiten :/ I wasn't asking for nothing lm 54 years old and cook pretty much everyday and I can believe you're 12 because you sure act like it. Now you need to get on with your life and mind your own business and don't worry about mine!! I was just admiring something someone done. I thought he made a beautiful knife out of something that looked like a lost cause.
Kwiiten :/ I did not ask for it I said I would love to have it there is a big difference you dumbass! And yeah you must give a fuck because you sure don't know how to shut the fuck up and mind your own business!!!!!
Kwiiten :/ I congratulating someone for a job well done and stated I would love to have the product he produced! But now I wish I had never wrote a word!! So go ahead with your trolling since you have no life!! I'm done with you!!!!
nobody:
the mosquito in my ear at 2am: 0:59
using a wire wheel with no gloves?? that’s a brave man right there.
I love what you do, and I enjoy watching your videos. But this title is very misleading.
In order to make it a real high end knife you need to know precisely what steel the blade is made of in order to have the right procedure for heat treatment.
You can't just take any random sheap old knife, clean it up, arbitrarily hardening and quenching (and giving it a differential hardening) without some sort of hardness testing, i.e. a rockwell hardness tester at best or at least tester files.
And then put on some bolster, liners, fancy woods handle and call it a high-end Japanese chef knife (not even calling it a Japanese-STYLE kitchen knife). 😅
Don't get me wrong. I love the work you put into it! But it's important to be clear on what really goes into a knife in order to call it high-end, and even a Japanese chef knife for that matter.
Please don't take offense!
Anyways, love your videos. Keep it up!
what are you buying when you buy a high end japanese knife? quality steel a proper grind / knife shape, and a good handle.
but then what is this? some time of steel alloy, with a pretty well done flat grind (no hollow grind) a ridiculous blade shape, a handle with the tinyiest tang. though it is pretty.
it looks okay, but then he gets to the part where he's cutting a tomato and, i'm just shaking my head, why do you need a like half a pound of steel to cut a tomato. where is the clip of him slaughter a pig.
Get out here with your logic and facts!
@@matthewhoban9105 it still isnt even that sharp...
Legit no one cares get over it
DriftCentral AJ you cared enough to comment 😂😂😂 bum, OP is right.
Time and time again you make some of the most aesthetically pleasing handles I’ve seen. Truly beautiful stuff. Great work!
And you try to say in person what you say behind your back ...
at the end he barely succeed to cut, i'm DONE xD
barely succeeded? are we watching the same vid
@@wah9349 this video was recommended to me because i look a lot of sharpening(doing it myself, not video ofc) and forging video, seeing the black hole between our percepions of what is a clean cut, i'm pretty curious about which type of video leading you there xD
Calm down boy
It's not dull but it isn't slicing through with ease either. Notice how the slices stick quite a bit to the blade which means it's not smooth.
@@FSMonster yep, maybe a title like: "...look like a High end japanese..." Could be more accurate and not triggered me. My disapointmeent came from the fact i looked and enjoyed the video (maybe not the poor Wood main section of the handle, anyway) and waiting for the climax with a satisfaction clean cut (which is doable with quite any material)... unfortunalty we finished on a pushed (to not saying crushed) tomato skin, and hard melon who is bending on the pressure from the knife, anyway, who Care xD
I really like that you use Lidl bought power tools, it really boosts my confidence :)
Tang is crazy skinny for a blade of that size an an odd shape for a chef knife looks more like a Bowie
damn straight tang way to tiny
it looks like that this knife is modified just for trhe video .
Absolutely no structural integrity for this blade. I have no idea WTF he was thinking when he removed 3/4 of the tang's width Somebody will end up with just the handle in his hand in no time..
Dylan Klemm agreed
should of kept the full tang or at laest add some more steel to make the handle into a bolster
This guy looks more professional than most of this kind of videos on youtube. I think he is doing a great job. And this videos are so satisfying too
I like the background sounds and the non talking. Its relaxing and makes me wanna sleep heheh. Good video! :)
A beautiful thing to behold. From useless to useful.
A trip to the Masters hands has restored beyond what it once was intended for!
Me: has well over a hundred things on my bucket list that I have no intention of actually doing
Also me: "I'll add that to my bucket list"
"actually"
Knifemaking and restoration is a very fun hobby if you know what you are getting yourself into but if you don’t regularly carry knives or use them it probably isn’t for you
A fancy handle and reshaping it, doesn't improve crappy steel. It's ok sharpening it to shave a few hairs, but it won't hold an edge.
Hard to say if its crapy steel. O-1 tool steel is cheap and you can harden it very nicely. A good heat treat is all he really needs.
@@Bshwag You can if you know it's O1...problem here: he nor anybody has the slightless idea about what steel is...probably 420 or similar, so no high end anything can come from that. All this is retarded clickbait
TheChzoronzon, i think even worse. 420 has decent amount of chrome, this piece of... steel rusty all the way, so you know where i am going.
@@7501Nitai Good quality high carbon steels will rust like crazy, The problem is cheap ones will too but at least with a high carbon steel you can get a reasonable knife even if it cheap as hell. It just won't have consistent internal structures.
@@Bshwag Cheap cutlery steel rarely is made of plain carbon steel 1065-80 etc...precisely for the rusting issues, I can only think of Opinel still doing that
That looks like such a good knife now! such good craftsmenship! thanks for the share!
Amazing work. I test the blade the same way. Good times!
me: sees rust is now off
my brain: *_d o p a m i n e_*_ ®_
13:32 I know, but I need to do this joke
Huh, its the first time i've seen that wire technique for creating the hamon, it looks interesting and seems effective
missed the spot where the knife became japanese
It's about the technique he used to make the knife less brittle, it is common in Japanese knifes and samurai swords
@@nathaliestav2241comparing this shit to japanese swordmaking, is a fucking disgrace.
Imagine that you have one potato and one carrot and you claim to cook michelin star dish only from those...
@@overpay7473 Dude, no need to be belligerent. The knife looks like a Gyuto, he used yaki-ire to get a hamon, the handle is definitely inspired by Japanese octagonal handles. It is styled more like a Japanese kitchen knife than a European one. If you have a problem with it, please bring constructive arguments instead of invectives.
@@Adduzer ok
@@overpay7473 shut
This took longer than making one from scrap.
It sure took longer than buying a new one.
That's what he and Hi-End.
That's pretty much what he did. It's not so much a "restoration" as it is "recycling" the blade from the old rusty knife. He already had to template and re-cut the knife's shape anyway. While it's an impressive feat to make that out of a cheap knife, it would've been even cheaper (and faster) just making a knife from a raw block of steel, and the process would have been identical minus all the extra cleaning he had to do. So while it's not the most practical way to fashion a knife with the tools and skills on display, I'll still commend the guy for at least keeping that knife from being wasted by sitting in a landfill.
But it's cheaper than making a new one
-but that's not the point..
@13:31 that's a really smart way of wood-turning, brilliant. The "Man-Bun Bandit" strikes again.
this is cool and all but can you imagine the torture this guys neighbours go through? The constant ruckus.
despite being traumatized at a few moments, that is a beautiful knife.
Nice nick :3
Its no longer restoration, its transformation into different knife.
Yea I know it's dumb, and he low-key made the tang on this one hella skinny
He took some garbage rusted scrap metal knife and turned it into something that can serve another human being and be useful to someone, in my book that's restoration
@@Shorim1
Sorry to be critical and pedantic ...Restoration is restoring an item to its original state ...BTW, the end object could be bought for pittance. If one puts a figure on his skill and the time used, that only produced an object, one can say that it was a waste of time. I have done some restoring in my life. Restoration is the highest form of skills and knowledge of Craftsmanship that few possess. His finished object looked nothing like the original...
@@meme8447 yeah the handle will rotate if not even fall out because its literally held on by glue not hammered nails or something like that but i do like the clay tempering
It also wasn't a restoration, because the damages it had, was artificially added.
Zero pitting in the blade, after it had heavy rust that was wire-wheeled off.
Should have used an S grind for the bevel. That way things wouldn't stick as much to the blade when you are slicing them thin.
If anyone is wondering, that would be a flat or convex grind for the edge, with a hollow grind down the middle.
Troy McDaniel he was making a Japanese style knife with the bevel only coming halfway up the blade, which wouldn’t work well with an s ground bevel. On top of that, an S grinds isn’t easy to pull off so that’s a lot easier said than done. Don’t just see something on Alec Steele and assume that it’s easy and everyone can do it too.
First off, he can call it Japanese style all he wants but it is not really Japanese.
Secondly, Alec Steele is not a good example to point someone towards since he is young (not bad thing, but lacks broad experience) and tends to wing things. Also doing everything free hand the way he does makes it much more difficult.
Using jigs and guides are your friend. Doing an S grind is not easy, but it is no where near as difficult as people who do it free hand on a belt sander make it seem.
When you consider the costs in tools and time, I think I'll just buy a knife.
Knifemaking and restoration is a hobby I’m sure that person could skip out on half his tools and buy an expensive super knife but that’s not the point
I always watch these kinds of videos at night
The Algorythms knows
Kinda made it 'less' Japanese when you started cutting it down like that.
You can make your own knife and video and show him how to do it then
@@dandaman83 its a misleading title. It looks nothing like a Japanese knife
Dan Mo there is a specific style that is implied saying its a “Japanese” kitchen knife. He was simply saying it doesn’t match the style, not that it’s a bad build or not made good. Just simply not the right stylization. To an extent he is correct.
@@dandaman83 people like you... :/
Go see jun's kitchen, he did the same but with a true Japanese knife
Damn thats nice!!! Good work mate! 😎🤙💯
That’s beautiful!!! That tang to handle connection is wild!!!
Satisfying Vid. It is awesome that in our consumerist society someone refurbishes something instead of disposing of it.
Wow on the handle, love the square peg in a round hole tip.
John Kennedy I thought that was pretty bad ass as well!
I was flinching a bit at some of your techniques but fair play to you. Then when you did the proper test of 'does it shave your arm' I thought, 'This blokes got it'.
Ah, the humble tomato. A staple in any knife restoration video. XD
I've seen a few of these knife restoration videos, and this is the first one where the persona actually bothers to heat treat the steel after cutting it. I would bet that this knife lasts longer than 90% of the other ones seen on TH-cam that skip this step.
Once again pure craftsmanship. A delight to watch.