Hey Alec, I’m an IE and I love the new warehouse. For some extra lean with reducing footsteps, might also get some ergonomic floor padding, improves visual flow and physical strain for little cost, something to think about. Keep up the awesome work with all these great projects.
I just wanted to say thank you for the best wishes with my surgery everything went good and though im still sore I feel a million times better meant a lot you took the time to wish me well I was already a huge fan but now I'm a dedicated fan for life!
Alec, This is exactly why i LOVE watching you! You show your mistakes and help everyone learn from you. Lots of other smiths on YT make a fancy production out of their videos, condensing a month of work into a 20 min video, with no mistakes and everything absolutely perfect... but you show what went wrong so other people can be better smiths from watching your stuff. Roll on 2m subscribers
Dude, Alec -- that fork looked incredible right off the anvil, the shape and contours were beautiful. I really like watching your hammer work, you make it look so easy. Makes me want to get to the forge and practice!
Great video. I love seeing you guys make mistakes and explain your learning process. That is one of the main differences between your channel and some of the masters out there showing off their skills.
Man, this channel has taken a serious knock in terms of quality of videos and projects done. Obviously it’s understandable with the new business and the expansion etc. These days it feels like videos are put out just for the sake of getting some sort of content on TH-cam.
Live and learn, Alec. "Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement." It's great that you always soldier on and try to recover the situation.
You guys should do storage racks on wheels next door. That way when you package whole orders , you can move the racks needed for that order closer to the packageting area. This option optimizes the packageting process greatly, and is used in many large scale production systems in the world. Keep up the great quality of work guys and that awesome positivity you have. love from Denmark ;o)
7:27 you could of instead of putting it in prongs first you could of left them out just by flipping it the other way leaving the thicker material to hear up quicker whist the prongs heat up slowly.
Man, that is starting to look sooo cool🔥 you should give away a belt grinder or hammer and also I really like your chef knife videos, please make more. Cheers, from Australia.
Man, I tried to order one of your hammers the exact moment y’all went live, tried for the 2.5 first and something was going wrong with getting payment processed by the time I worked around the problem they were sold out. Jumped over to the 3.5 and too late, also sold out. The 4.5 was still available but just didn’t want one that heavy. Can’t wait till you get more made. I hope whoever you chose to make them videos the process just like the guy in Canada did. Keep up the great work 👍
I had the exact same issue. I watched the countdown to zero. The page refreshed and I went straight to the 3.5 hammers as tried to order one. Basically, as it was so nicely explained to me by Alec, they sold out immediately with launching globally. The system created that shipping error in response to inventory reaching zero. They're having it fixed. Good luck and I hope on Monday we both get the hammers we've been after!
Being smart after the fact, means not making the same mistake twice! Next time you will get it right. Maxim 70: Failure is not an option - it is mandatory. The option is whether or not to let failure be the last thing you do.
many years ago I read a novel by Michael Slade.. the title was Headhunter. In this book there is a knife described, it is a machete with a groove running on either side of the blade along the spine, from handle to almost the tip and fitted to this groove and running in it is a weight which would slide from handle to near the tip as the blade was swung... increasing the momentum of the blade allowing 1 swing decapitations, with less muscle power needing to be exerted by the "headhunter" . I have always wanted to see this blade in real life to see what went into making it and see it being swung at melons and pumpkins etc as in comparison to an ordinary machete. Maybe a project for Will the bladesmith.
Try to put bronze sheet between every stainless steel layer. These two connects very well and I think, results will be astonishing. Another thing, stainless is very reactive to oxygen, so would be good idea if you use induction furnace full of argon till you heat up, because if you use your oxy-propane furnace, you will contaminate the material. Just thoughts! ;) And another thing, stainless has bad thermal conductivity which means, thermals distortions and deformations will trying make your life hell... so be patient and give it a chance. I work with stainless 5 years already and I purely love it. Another important thing is... DO NOT USE YOUR ANVIL for stainless, also hammer... you can use some thick aluminum sheet between anvil - stainless - hammer :) If you need certified stainless steel tig welder... I am free ;)
Funny, I was just watching an old video of heat/worktime planning you did a few years ago. Lolol Also... Stainless appears to be acting just like stainless at high temps. Lolol
I don’t doubt that one of the steels picked up a charge, but how? Stainless doesn’t usually stick to magnets, heating an iron permanent magnet to red hot will destroy it as a magnet and I never saw some regular magnetic field applied to it. Did he do a normalization cycle in one of the paragons while I wasn’t looking?
if you pour muriatic acid in a bottle with some aluminium foil balls you can make a really cheap sound bomb... normally you use like half of a inch of muriatic acid in any kind of plastic bottle, the balls should be almost covered by the acid and boom... remember to close the bottle and be really faraway from childrens lol
One should never use tools (grinding discs; belts; heck, even brushes) that are made of or was ever in contact with mild/carbon/... steel on stainless (austenitic at least). Hence the corrosion pattern you experience. Also, fuming nitric acid is the best for these grades of stainless.
I work in shipping/receiving and warehousing... The last thing that would interest me is watching a few noobs doing it on TH-cam, lol. Crucial tip though; hire someone with experience doing it. Most of the issues I see in places I work stems from office or sales people thinking they know the best way to organize a warehouse
I'm a CWI and my largest concern is that they are tig welding without proper ppe and im curious if the SS in the forge is hot enough to give off chromium oxide. Dangerous for ones health if not properly informed.
You know what they say: knife makers don't make mistakes, only smaller knives
giggityguy haha
Lol excelent!!!
And smaller thumbs, apparently.
giggityguy you know it
giggityguy at first i read that as smarter lol
Hey Alec, I’m an IE and I love the new warehouse. For some extra lean with reducing footsteps, might also get some ergonomic floor padding, improves visual flow and physical strain for little cost, something to think about. Keep up the awesome work with all these great projects.
I just wanted to say thank you for the best wishes with my surgery everything went good and though im still sore I feel a million times better meant a lot you took the time to wish me well I was already a huge fan but now I'm a dedicated fan for life!
Next projects:
-Forge Doors
-Damascus Steel Gauntlets for Will
TheTaco TCG yesssssss the 2nd one is important
If Will is consistent on which finger he's hitting, a thimble would be good.
hanelyp1 A Damascus Steel Thimble
So...buying more fire bricks, and damascus steel gauntlets for Will? :P
more like chainmail gloves for Will. they will be more durable and easier to wear.
Alec, This is exactly why i LOVE watching you! You show your mistakes and help everyone learn from you. Lots of other smiths on YT make a fancy production out of their videos, condensing a month of work into a 20 min video, with no mistakes and everything absolutely perfect... but you show what went wrong so other people can be better smiths from watching your stuff.
Roll on 2m subscribers
“One of my top two favorite thumbs”
- Will
I burst out laughing XD
I love Will's sense of humor.
Apparently acid is easy to find, even in the kids section at Lowes.🤣
muriatic acid a common swimming pool chemical (cleaner)
Great xmas gift for the kids, 1 bottle should cover all of them...
i get my wcid from a guy nane jack on the corner two blocks away from the church but I think we're getting two different kinds of acid
Well duh this is america.
Apparently easy to find in the UK as well
Dude, Alec -- that fork looked incredible right off the anvil, the shape and contours were beautiful. I really like watching your hammer work, you make it look so easy. Makes me want to get to the forge and practice!
Great video.
I love seeing you guys make mistakes and explain your learning process.
That is one of the main differences between your channel and some of the masters out there showing off their skills.
Man, this channel has taken a serious knock in terms of quality of videos and projects done. Obviously it’s understandable with the new business and the expansion etc. These days it feels like videos are put out just for the sake of getting some sort of content on TH-cam.
Don't worry Alec, being smart after the act is very helpful and useful. It's called learning. All the best.
Still think you two should do an episode on how you met and what brought you to the states.
It's really nice to see detailed hand forging again.
I actually think it's really cool to see you guys growing a business
Live and learn, Alec. "Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement." It's great that you always soldier on and try to recover the situation.
You guys should do storage racks on wheels next door. That way when you package whole orders , you can move the racks needed for that order closer to the packageting area. This option optimizes the packageting process greatly, and is used in many large scale production systems in the world.
Keep up the great quality of work guys and that awesome positivity you have. love from Denmark ;o)
I love the creations they can come up with after saying there's not enough material to do so.
Those earmuffs are amazing if you hate earplugs, fits with everything
Get yourselves a sponsor for some gloves. I use Superior Glove Endura Gloves. Great grip on the tools, not too bulky and has great cut protection.
Need to get Will some armor for his fingers
LOVING the music!! Watch ALL you videos anyways, but now you got some metal riffs ripping in the background,AWESOME!! Great job to lol!
Great music. Feels like old Alec video.
I want a stelter kitchen knife so bad!
Im happy that its going good for you Alec, ive been watching almost sense you started, wish you and your team The best!
🇸🇪
Will showing that pretty English boy how it's done. Thumbs up!
7:27 you could of instead of putting it in prongs first you could of left them out just by flipping it the other way leaving the thicker material to hear up quicker whist the prongs heat up slowly.
I had some Acid once...
Couple times.
I have acid all the time.
In my stomach.
Did you get it in the children's section of Lowe's?
Man, that is starting to look sooo cool🔥 you should give away a belt grinder or hammer and also I really like your chef knife videos, please make more. Cheers, from Australia.
Alec you need to get a magnetic particle tester or dye penetrant kit to help you figure out if you have cracks. A major brand is magnaflux.
Is this going to be Alec’s first Thanksgiving? If so, we need video of Alec enjoying his first proper Thanksgiving dinner.
Editing was so much better, they have slowed down on how fast they jump from clip to clip. Thank you
I enjoyed the sharing of the process
Happy for you guys
This is why you need a coal forge along with your gas forge. That way you can get small area's hot and not worry about over heating the smaller ones.
saw that bucket with the "dust" inside your grinding room
well, challenge: melt that stuff down and do something out of it
Dominik Kempen I said the same a while ago. Put it into a crucible and make it into a butter knife.
@@1014p yeah, at least something usefull out of that ^^
Man, I tried to order one of your hammers the exact moment y’all went live, tried for the 2.5 first and something was going wrong with getting payment processed by the time I worked around the problem they were sold out. Jumped over to the 3.5 and too late, also sold out. The 4.5 was still available but just didn’t want one that heavy. Can’t wait till you get more made. I hope whoever you chose to make them videos the process just like the guy in Canada did.
Keep up the great work 👍
I had the exact same issue. I watched the countdown to zero. The page refreshed and I went straight to the 3.5 hammers as tried to order one. Basically, as it was so nicely explained to me by Alec, they sold out immediately with launching globally. The system created that shipping error in response to inventory reaching zero. They're having it fixed. Good luck and I hope on Monday we both get the hammers we've been after!
koretechx momento mori There will be more on Monday?! I didn’t know that.
You should do a 6 hour knife challenge
3:41 It's a V for victory!
6:11
Now it's an L for loser! -Alec
Becasue we never see the time between, when they just grab it out the paragon, it always makes me nervous
We usually forge stainless between 2200° & 1750°, but we do large forgings and not Damascus.
You guys talking about the " hidden tang" miss the " I got all the way up into the crotch" comment at 4:16. ??? The dad jokes are definitely coming.
Well that is what it's called, so....
Being smart after the fact, means not making the same mistake twice! Next time you will get it right.
Maxim 70: Failure is not an option - it is mandatory. The option is whether or not to let failure be the last thing you do.
6:31....1 of my top 2 favorite thumbs 👍🏼👍🏼
Just what every Thanksgiving needs
I thought, wow, 2400 °, that's heckin' hot, no wonder the end dropped off.
But then I realised you guys do degrees Foreignhot.
for your warehousing set up i would recomend looking at a organisation system called 5s has helped alot improving my working inviroment
Literally just got my anvil shipped in a few minutes before this video came out. I am so stoked
many years ago I read a novel by Michael Slade.. the title was Headhunter. In this book there is a knife described, it is a machete with a groove running on either side of the blade along the spine, from handle to almost the tip and fitted to this groove and running in it is a weight which would slide from handle to near the tip as the blade was swung... increasing the momentum of the blade allowing 1 swing decapitations, with less muscle power needing to be exerted by the "headhunter" . I have always wanted to see this blade in real life to see what went into making it and see it being swung at melons and pumpkins etc as in comparison to an ordinary machete. Maybe a project for Will the bladesmith.
Top(ped ) 2 favorite thumbs... literally! Good stuff!
Haha it is like the 60's. Acid everywhere!
Would be interesting if you made a Damascus tuning fork.
Well, I think we all learned a valuable lesson today. 🤓 Actually, quite a few lessons. 🤓🤓
You should make a smaller forge for smaller projects
Forge version of “good eats” , loved the white board moment.
LONG LIVE THE FIRST ORDER!
hi AleC 👋🏽
I’m still laughing at the running joke of you guys blurring the Helpful Place. It gets me every time lol
real talk though, when are you gonna make damascus mandalorian armor?
Try to put bronze sheet between every stainless steel layer. These two connects very well and I think, results will be astonishing. Another thing, stainless is very reactive to oxygen, so would be good idea if you use induction furnace full of argon till you heat up, because if you use your oxy-propane furnace, you will contaminate the material. Just thoughts! ;) And another thing, stainless has bad thermal conductivity which means, thermals distortions and deformations will trying make your life hell... so be patient and give it a chance. I work with stainless 5 years already and I purely love it. Another important thing is... DO NOT USE YOUR ANVIL for stainless, also hammer... you can use some thick aluminum sheet between anvil - stainless - hammer :) If you need certified stainless steel tig welder... I am free ;)
Lol I thought fork was some intellectual forging word
Alec please add prices on your site for all your out of stock products
I've gotten some estimates on the 84 engineering site but I'd love to know what you're selling them for
A video where you have to forge things with framing hammers and other kinds of non metal working hammers.
I’ve been looking forward to this one !!!
You never learn anything from success only failure. Success is just minimal failure.
Muriatic acid tastes kind of like sulfuric acid but a little more savory
GooseTeamSix what you’d be tasting is your own burning flesh
@@brandonb9452 oh well
@@brandonb9452 Heh, more likely it's leaching sodium out of your flesh and reacting to make salt. Still a really bad idea to drink it ;-)
you should make typhoon damasks, it's the one with all the circles
Well a whittling knife and fork are pretty good too.
That acid is commonly used in pools to lower the PH in the water.
make a cover for will's thumb in Damascus steel
Big challenge. Zweihander and see if you can get Robert oberst there to swing it and make you guys look tiny.
For your next project you guys should make Will a new thumb
Next up - Alec and Wil forge a Damascus finger tip for someone in the area that needs one desperately.
Funny, I was just watching an old video of heat/worktime planning you did a few years ago. Lolol
Also... Stainless appears to be acting just like stainless at high temps. Lolol
Would look awesome with some elk antler handles
I'm pretty sure Alec was forcing a really serious look at 4:15...🤣
“Being smart after the fact”. I believe that is called experience
So alec have you had time to do any shooting yet, plenty of areas in montana for some long range plinking
You should really look into getting a liquid penetrate bench. Help identify real cracks.
MAKE A DOOR!!!
I love it that Alec makes a mistake, on camera, then owns up to it, showing he's human after all . . . Or did he make the mistake on purpose? :)
Plz make your green shirt for kids
I don’t doubt that one of the steels picked up a charge, but how? Stainless doesn’t usually stick to magnets, heating an iron permanent magnet to red hot will destroy it as a magnet and I never saw some regular magnetic field applied to it. Did he do a normalization cycle in one of the paragons while I wasn’t looking?
Always check your staging.
How come every couple of hits, you give the hammer a little tap on the anvil ? Is it just a way to rest your arm in between?
I'm convinced he only owns that one pair of shorts
Not sure which is worse, your hidden tang joke, or the fact that I laughed too?
I would give this a thumbs up, but I don't want to make Will feel bad.
if you pour muriatic acid in a bottle with some aluminium foil balls you can make a really cheap sound bomb... normally you use like half of a inch of muriatic acid in any kind of plastic bottle, the balls should be almost covered by the acid and boom... remember to close the bottle and be really faraway from childrens lol
Why wasn’t a torch used to prevent the tines from having issues. Heat up one side at a time.
Awesome stuff.
muriatic acid is used to lower the PH of swimming pools baking soda to raise the PH
6:18
Quentined and Tarantined
by
Written Directino
One should never use tools (grinding discs; belts; heck, even brushes) that are made of or was ever in contact with mild/carbon/... steel on stainless (austenitic at least).
Hence the corrosion pattern you experience.
Also, fuming nitric acid is the best for these grades of stainless.
Just FYI muriatic acid is used to clead concrete. So most hardware store cary it
Wooooo
I work in shipping/receiving and warehousing...
The last thing that would interest me is watching a few noobs doing it on TH-cam, lol.
Crucial tip though; hire someone with experience doing it. Most of the issues I see in places I work stems from office or sales people thinking they know the best way to organize a warehouse
Any forge doors in those boxes???
@ 4:14 "I got all the way up inside the crotch area of the fork..." Now I have to wipe coffee off my screen...
Can you make your new green shirt for kids plz
Ah Alex has discovered that there are two types of Stainless steel Austenitic and Martensitic ok I’m a welding inspector 😏
I'm a CWI and my largest concern is that they are tig welding without proper ppe and im curious if the SS in the forge is hot enough to give off chromium oxide. Dangerous for ones health if not properly informed.
yay