Forging a WWI Knuckleduster Trench Knife: Doubled-Edged "French Nail" Dagger (Complete Build).

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  • @elimcgraw4066
    @elimcgraw4066 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Good job. Glad to see that somebody made a knife video about WW1 history

    • @PhilBaumhardt
      @PhilBaumhardt  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks Eli! I try.

    • @elimcgraw4066
      @elimcgraw4066 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You should read about the British Robbins- Dudley knives used in WW1

    • @PhilBaumhardt
      @PhilBaumhardt  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@elimcgraw4066 Interesting, I'll have to do some digging on that. Thanks dude!

  • @ianfinrir8724
    @ianfinrir8724 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    The first French Nails were made from cut down Lebel bayonets. These bayonets were so long that three knives could be made from one

    • @brittakriep2938
      @brittakriep2938 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The french bayonnets had been not so practical and also there was the danger of breaking, so they had been cut down and the tips got wood handles. Also the french navy still had some boarding daggers from the 1830s (?) in stock, which saw their first use in ww l.

    • @mr.meowgi9876
      @mr.meowgi9876 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Neat

    • @jamesdolan5236
      @jamesdolan5236 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Some of these knives were still being issued for the Normandy invasion

  • @craigthemonke794
    @craigthemonke794 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That wooden sheath looks so brutally simple I love it

  • @eduardonavarro5910
    @eduardonavarro5910 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    That was a beautiful test
    Amazing work man

  • @lefunnyN1
    @lefunnyN1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    simple yet effective and cool looking

  • @tonynapoli5549
    @tonynapoli5549 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Very effective in the right hands

  • @legioxgemina1117
    @legioxgemina1117 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excelente trabajo.

  • @Juan-md5fb
    @Juan-md5fb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great video loved watching it was so cool. Got a old coil from my shocks going to fire up the forge and give it a shot! Thank for the video brother.

  • @samnottheotherone4363
    @samnottheotherone4363 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Cool, might try this one myself.

  • @danielbutler6823
    @danielbutler6823 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Try making the blade first. Then you can texture the grip or put on a handle or something and bend it in the vise last. ones I made turned out ok that way and you can put a bit more personal flair in it.

  • @techronmattic5876
    @techronmattic5876 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Cool dagger Phil, blade came out sweet

  • @crispwhitesheets2175
    @crispwhitesheets2175 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful

  • @raphlvlogs271
    @raphlvlogs271 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    a work of art.

  • @franksworld9922
    @franksworld9922 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well done 👏

  • @deneufville
    @deneufville 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    le vrais a un diametre plus petit et la lame est est en forme de feuille alongée . cela dit le votre est tres beau , bravo , bon travail

  • @cgreen3597
    @cgreen3597 ปีที่แล้ว

    No critics or being mean. This is a great project on your part, but at the point you were at an emphasis on the wide curve of the hand guard, I would have hot cut the forward part of the guard so that there would be enough space to bend it closer to the ricasso and close some of the guard's width.
    Closing some of the guard's width may also have squared up the aft end where may have been able to forge in skull crusher. I realise you were going for historical accuracy, but just a thought.

    • @PhilBaumhardt
      @PhilBaumhardt  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Its an interesting idea, trying to shape those handles has always been problematic for me. I may try it one day, but yeah I was trying my best replicate the historic piece in this instance.

  • @fishdude666ify
    @fishdude666ify ปีที่แล้ว

    I HATE unbending coil springs; the last one I did was off a truck so like inch round stock with maybe two inches between turns. Took forever.

  • @juggy8896
    @juggy8896 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’d like to buy any available

  • @caseyc6364
    @caseyc6364 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice job

  • @cgreen3597
    @cgreen3597 ปีที่แล้ว

    Emphasis should have read empass. Pounding my tablet with a hammer now.

  • @Tito_Viera
    @Tito_Viera 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Artists... always they make look easy to do what they perform 🤣

  • @raphlvlogs271
    @raphlvlogs271 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    were bayonets ever converted in to trench knives?

    • @jamesdolan5236
      @jamesdolan5236 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Very much so. Men in both world wars frequently made knives out of bayonets they got ahold of. They also made what were called "theater made" knives out of found steel and used anything from wood or leather for the handles to making rather fancy handle spacers out of clear and colored plastic

  • @lucaskauffman4554
    @lucaskauffman4554 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Bayonets were also long as a defense against calvary.

    • @PhilBaumhardt
      @PhilBaumhardt  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Right! They had some really long ones in the late 1800's.

    • @brittakriep2938
      @brittakriep2938 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The main infantryrifles had also been rather long. The combination long rifle and long bayonnet should give a reach advantage in bayonnet fencing, and of course against a cavallysoldier with no lance.

  • @totounicorn6885
    @totounicorn6885 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    You had my like at “stab the shit out of him”.

  • @davidbradley6040
    @davidbradley6040 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    no tempering?

    • @PhilBaumhardt
      @PhilBaumhardt  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I temper everthing in the kitchen oven

  • @fstef9632
    @fstef9632 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Make a sword plz!!!!

    • @PhilBaumhardt
      @PhilBaumhardt  5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I will, thanks for watching!

  • @aslob9321
    @aslob9321 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dude, I like your videos, keep it up. But, you need to get in close on that belt grinder, and get rid of the gloves. That thing ain’t gonna bite you!

  • @popeyhead7687
    @popeyhead7687 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    You can buy a nail knife for 20$

    • @DSWL_
      @DSWL_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      that's not the point... get it?