Forging A Big Bowie Knife From A Truck Bearing, Blacksmithing, Knifemaking, period piece, bladesmith
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
- Transforming a large steel bearing into an iconic blade.
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I have a 5 year old daughter and the pterodactyl was the best part of the video! haha
Your daughter is absolutely precious!🥰
John Rambo would have been proud to have a masterpiece like this one.
Worth at least two buffalo hides and six beaver pelts!
Hell Yeah. Spectacular Bowie Knife !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Forging a knife from an old bearing ring sounds much more poetic than forging a knife from brand new steel. The first is art, the second is manufacturing!
Overcome and adapt 😂 great job as always!
Thank you!! 😁
Don’t know if a frontiersman would’ve been proud to carry it but I know I’d be
Proud and Honored to carry it in the field
I can’t comment on what a frontiersman would carry but I would be proud to own this knife!!
Beautiful work!
Thank you
Beautiful blade, I'm sure the frontiersman would have died to have the tools to make that!
Anyone should love to carry that BEAUTY!
Nice, thanks for the video 👍
I think anybody would be proud to carry that knife, not just a frontiersman... Thanks for the videos. Keep it up.
Thanks I appreciate it!
proud? stupid more like.
@@FireCreekForge do u just make any knives u get requested?
@@nicklasbehrendt3802 I'm not currently taking custom requests, but will in the future. As far as the videos, it's different ideas I have but I do like to hear what people want to see built.
@@FireCreekForge cool!
That’s a beautiful knife. 99% of people don’t abuse their knives. That would be a life time knife for most people. Great job.
VERY nice! I bet frontiersman would have been more than proud to Cary that.
forget about Frontiersman, I would be proud to carry that
I would love it
I remember being a kid and my dad would give me the brass guard and pommel pieces to file down and polish
It'd be awesome to meet those rollers in a crucible and forge a blade
👌 Beautiful work man! I’m sure anyone on the frontier would have been thrilled to carry this awesome Bowie knife. 👍
Nice pommel setting technique 😀
I know I'd certainly be proud to have that strapped to my leg. It's beautiful.
Notifications finally working!!
If that was a Timken bearing it was originally made from reclaimed steel. I worked for Timken bearings for about 7 yrars and then Timkensteel for 18 years. I made all parts of bearings except the cage and worked the electric arc furnace where we melted scrap to make the speciality steel used in bearings. I'm glad to see another life for that bearing.
I don't think it's a Timken, but yes a lot of steel is recycled these days. Thanks for watching
What a truly gorgeous knife!
I’d love to own a knife like that 😬👍🏻🇩🇰
Nice work 😁 All the best from the north west of England 👍🤙
This is my first video of this gent and I'm only 4 minutes in and I've already subscribed and i like him because i can hear so much sincerity and honesty in his voice
Awesome piece thank you 👍☘️💚🙏
Well done brother
Thank you sir
Would definitely carry it. Perfect for those Alaskan Hunting trips
Great u are the master
I take bushcraft classes with my cousin here in Alaska. I would 100% leave my Bark River Teddy at home and use this.
That’s a fine looking Bowie knife
Thank you sir
I like this knife. Well done.
Realy nice!
This knife will be a perfect companion to a frontiersman!
looks great...just needs to be proved
Now that's an artisan crafted pterodactyl! :D
Nice One
DUPLO blocks! My kids loved those as much I did back in the 70s!
I can almost smell that ironwood from here.
Gotta love it!
Hell yea brother I've got at least 50 if not a 100 old bearing setting in the top of my press from rebuilding rear ends and trans from the last 24 years will be trying to make 1 very soon !!
That’s enough crocodile Dundee would carry for sure
anyone should be very proud to own a period piece like that great work
Wow! Very awsome build!
I would like to carry this thing arond! For sure!
Keep on building knifes like this!
Greetings
HP
Get yourself a mini rolling mill. I use leaf springs for my knives and the rolling mill saves a lot of fuel and frustration. You can take a fairly small chunk and run it through a few times and end up with a dimensionally accurate billet with virtually no loss. Harbor freight has a decent one. It's especially good for roundstock scrap like big auger bits and large bolts.
I do want to get one someday, I think they would be great for Damascus too.
Outstanding video most informative, 👏 👌
Suhhhweeeet knife! That handle is amazing!!
Enjoying your videos, from Houston, Tx.
Thank you!
Another DelMonte success!!
An old car bearing race will make a decent knife too. I've been wanting to make a hook knife (for carving spoons out of wood) out of one for some time now.
For those considering using a tapered roller bearing at your stock. Those are often made by carburizing a lower carbon 41XX or 86XX steels. Before putting much time into it, grind down about .100" and look at the sparks thrown when grinding the core to make sure you have a through hardened steel.
I am a metallurgist with years of experience heat treating bearings.
Thanks for the info!
Same goes for cheap files these days. When the teeth are just a millimeter tall, it makes a lot of sense to just case harden.
Eye like it.
I like your commentary. There is way more to this than meets the eye
I would not mind carrying one like that today
Any Frontiersman with this hanging from his belt would instantly become a legend.
That’s a fine looking
Good looking knife there! Cheers!
Thanks man!
That's a beautiful knife, recycled and given back a new life, nothing's more awesome than that.👍👍
Thanks I appreciate it!
Now that's a knife I think Dundee would even carry. I would as well. Lol
Very beautiful blade great job
Nice love et
I certainly believe that a frontiersman or for that matter an outdoorsman of today would be ecstatic to own that knife. Best wishes.
Beautiful blade
A frontiersman would be proud to carry that ad would any other serif respecting person! It turned it great as usual. Thanks for sharing
It turned out awesome.
Thank you sir
Cool. I didn't even know David Bowie was into knives.
New to this channel, and I just noticed the Gadsden flag 👍 Love it
Good job, awesome piece
You have sound business reasons for using virgin steel as opposed to snobby ones. And this project proves that there’s no need to be snobby about not using reclaimed anyway. It was fit for the application and you tested it at several points to be certain.
Great work!
A really nice job on this and over all I'd agree. Frontiersman ready. The best thing, for me, is the forge pitting you didn't grind out. Perfection has its place but in reality perfection is only for show not function. Sweet video...
Pretty cool 😎
Fantastic job....
I'm not a frontiers man, but I would definitely be proud to own that beautiful knife.
Daniel Boone would have loved that knife!!
Who wouldn't be proud to carry that knife? Great looking blade!
Definitely any frontier man would be over joyed to have such a great knife with them 😎🥰
if i would be a fontiersman, i would be proud, nice Job Bro, Kind regards from Germany
It looks like something a big-man-on-campus sheriff type would carry around in a film. I'm sure that level of finish and detail would signify some amount of wealth and or status from those times. It looks expensive.
Thanks!!
Beautiful knife would love to have one
Gorgeous
Thank you
Absolutely awesome watching from 🇬🇧👌
I carry my FCF knife for no reason!
Oh yeah. Gorgeous.
outstanding 💯🏆
Beautiful !!!
good job congratulations PT br
Yup...Mick 🤠 Dundee would like that knife. 👍
looks great,,, now lets see you go back the other way and make a bearing race out of it,,,
What a piece of art!
Fantastic
That anvil wooble makes me anxious
Awsome man!
Great looking period piece. I understand working with unknown steel, but think one would be wise to have that experience in his toolbox. With supplies and materials becoming limited, craftsmen may be forced to build projects out of pre-used steel. I would imagine in the 1800’s many knives (or weapons) were built from reclaimed steel or other metals as we saw happened to Confederate States during the Civil War.
Good point. Thanks for watching!
Truly amazing work, that has to be the best damn Pterodactyl I've ever seen.......oh nice knife too.
Haha thanks!
Thank you for your time and effort.
Beautiful Bowie you smacked up there 🔥⚒️🗡️
I have to say, the forging community on TH-cam is this apps saving grace. You and a handful of others are always giving us something to actually enhance our lives and sharing your knowledge. Thank you for being a part of that.
You bet, thanks for watching
Nice work my friend you can drill through your log and into the concrete and drive a peice of rebar in it will help I had to do mine that way
@@michaelmosley254 beautiful? yes, maybe, but totally useless except as an excersize in black smithing.
Beautiful
She’s a beauty
That’s amazing