How To Make a Fighting Dagger Out of an Old Steel File
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Today we're making a fighting dagger with a stacked leather handle. This one borrows from many different styles and the inspiration is drawn largely from several daggers made by Boker in Germany and the Fairbairn-Sykes fighting dagger variants.
Thanks for watching and enjoy!
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A lot of people I noticed shit on this guy for having an awkward on-camera presence and they pretty much ignore his skill and actual bad assery.
+Luke Loder I thought he had a GREAT camera Presence! He is confident, doesn't say Um or Ah and he knows what he wants to say. I like watching his videos because they are not cringe worthy and not distracting from the actual topic of the video.
+ssunfish thats what i noticed! That can distract me so easily. This dudes straight to the point with no funny business. Must have a pretty cool dad/mom(:
+blabada 123 ill bet you haven't been laid either at all or in a long time
Luke Loder im 13. What do u think.
+blabada 123 we're done here LOL i wont argue with someone online, especially someone who hasn't finished secondary schooling quite yet.. Id just feel like the cancer myself. have a good one fam
In an internet filled with crappy videos on blacksmith, yours stands out as an exemplary example of how to make a great video. You were to the point yet covered all the steps. Kudos to you sir.
You went from making bows from PVC pipes to being a blacksmith. Amazingly cool.
Haha! Thanks!
Brainake check out his other videos, he's a blacksmith :-)
Dude, beautiful. I don't think I've ever actually seen someone do stacked leather.
same,... guy really knows his shit
I made a fantastic file from an old hunting-knife.
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Keep choking your snag jaye see
Wow wonderful work!
+Cosmas B Could not agree more!
+Cosmas B Right
Pretty cool for low cost low tool tech
This is a Very nice knife to say at least :-) Very simple tools, yet a astonishing result, bravo :-)
And very easy to understand the steps when your making it :-) Thanks great video :-)
How about a simple folder design with PVC scales sort of like our granddad's old pocket knife.
having been an ironworker for almost 35 years, the skill you have with a hand grinder is impressive, usually takes awhile to get thart steady and accurate
shit mate, I was expecting a half-assed ground edge on there, but you made a beautiful knife out of that old thing! Subbed!
What you can't see in this video is the years it took to acquire the skills to make it look this easy.
well said
+tetsubo57 yes.
Its worth the years off work tho
So true! 👍 What it also doesn't show is all the new guys filling their trash cans with snapped, melted, fractured and oddly shaped files bought from the discount store whilst trying to copy this video on a Saturday afternoon. 😂😂
+tetsubo57 so true, He makes it look easy.
4:54 [H] FULL BLUE CASE HARDENED [W] 500 KEYS
+Anomaly
ANOMALEH omfg :D
ha, the fuck you doing here?
+Andy ednios hahahaha thought the same
+Anomaly lol anomaly?
+Anomaly yeah lol wtf u doing here
Awesome knife, and awesome video! Congrats on almost a million views! ATB to you.
Thank you!
+BackyardBowyer Excellent video, liked, and subscribed.
BackyardBowyer Subscribed. Great video... With minimal equipment...Genius to the max..
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I wish I could wake up one morning and say, "I'm going to make myself a fine dagger today."
Daniel Cruz you can
most people have jobs that suck the life out of them until they are nothing but a brain dead husk at the end of the day only fit to keep a chair warm begging god to make it hurt less until the weekend comes, never making enough to buy the tools necessary to get this kind of skill.
You can, he just showed you how
Half Insane Outdoor Guy this is extremely basic stuff that doesn’t require any special tools, anyone with two functioning hands could do it, they could even make it easier by going on amazon and buying knife blanks for a few bucks.
Realistically you could do this with only one functioning hand and a table vice, so long as you can get a good grip on your grinder, or you spring for a $70 belt sander and a lot of belts and pads from harbor freight or Home Depot.
You also need some sort of forge ,a quench tank of oil and a bucket of perlite. Unless it's just for display,then your tool list would work fine.
I've learned so much from your videos. This is a beautiful knife and I wouldn't believe that you made it from a file if I hadn't seen it for myself. I'm a true fan of your work.
The fact you can get clean bevel grinds with an angle grinder is amazing. Steady hands.
+Ernest Sheffield Like no fucking kidding... I was looking at him do the bevels with a god damned angle grinder and I was like , well I need to watch a different video because there is now way I can do that... lol
+JD Tremblay sure you can... just get it close then draw file it to final shape... hell, I've made a few knives where I only used files... can be done, just takes longer.
tritowns
I just made a kick ass knife today man; made a forge bought some bloodwood and purple heart, made some mosaic pins out of brass pipe and steel rods just need to shape the handle tomorrow and make it all shiny shiny!
tritowns
I used an angle grinder to do exactly that, got it down to pretty close then finished it off with a bastard file then heat treated and so on :D as you can tell I am stoked and proud lol
+JD Tremblay That is no way to talk about your files dude!Show some respect for your tools! 😉
Im gonna be honest....being from a military family in Canada (PPCLI)....I have ww2 daggers carried by my grandad....you sir have done an honour to us! Thank you!
yes he did i couldn't agree more its a beautiful dagger
Hold on, your grandad didn't happen to migrate from Germany..
did he?
James Gordon this dagger is by the looks of it based on the fairbyrne skyes fighting dagger used by british commandos (SAS) during World War II and to this day its on their unit flash on their beret
Yeah, kind of a more German look to it.
@@beerthug ibuyworldwar2.com/tag/ss-daggers/ LOL
You, my friend, are a talented young man. You did a good job on what appears to be a quality knife. Keep up the good work; you now have a new subscriber.
wow thats a beautiful blade you did a fantastic job!!!!
You make it look easy. You obviously have hours of practice with that angle grinder. Minimum of equipment impressive result.
Especially when you realize it is a Harbor Freight grinder. lol
joe rohling equipment second to skill
Days of practice
Aj Ginther I am waiting you do a video better than this one, good luck
Years, I would say. xx
Fantastic looking knife Nick. You are the man.
This is the first time I've seen a stacked leather handle, it's beautiful
I make my own knives my self so i know how much work this is.. You really done a good job with this. looks Great.
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Nice Nick, awesome knife with minimal tools.
You're genuinely wholesome to watch. Thank you.
Awesome Knife. One that will last a lifetime & more...
Oh, usually those type of files are 1070 - 1095 high carbon steel.
You sir, have talent
Hard work and dedication shits on talent every day lol.
for a "bowyer", you sure know an awful lot about metal working.
I like the way you teach. It's easy to learn from you. I think I joule do this. Thanks
Where's my file honey? LOL...what file? ;)
Badass looking blade. Definitely something to be proud of.
+Fletchett Thank you!
I have a full blood Cherokee Indian friend in northern Georgia who made a knife so sharp from a file like this that I ignored his warning "Don't touch the blade even just to see how sharp it is. It will cut you on contact." Not believing him, I ever so lightly touched the blade and absolutely shocked and amazed when blood ran down the blade. I've never seen a blade that sharp in my life and I've seen and even made a few very sharp blades.
Edit: this actually happened. My fingers are VERY TOUGH and that blade cuts leather and even leaves grooves on steel plating. My friend owns a company that repairs arcade video games, and Roger if you see this video give me a call. Let's go coyote hunting again.
really?
Wiz V no he's just messing with you
Cristos Palabras us Indians where in the crystal age before contact (obsidian age higher than the so called Clovis culture of europe.) so yeah that knife blade was shaaarp!!
Either You're blowing smoke up everyone's ass or you've never worked with your hands and have soft baby hands
nice instructions. what is it you put the blade in after heating it up?
Your confidence with a grinder blows my mind!
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try to make karambit
I have trouble understanding heat treating and tempering. I know they have something to do with making the metal less likely to break but I don't know the differences between heat treating, and tempering, can someone please explain this? I tried google but the weren't any straight forward answers. Thanks.
+thepuppetmagician Tempering is a part of heat treating. There are many things that can be done during heat treating and different steels require their own heat treatment to perform their best. Most steel manufacturers give heat treating instructions for the steels they produce.
Basically when you heat treat a knife like this, there are three basic steps. The first thing I did was anneal the file, which brought it down to what is known as dead soft. This is where the crystal structure of the steel is very fine and under little stress. This can be done during heat treatment to relax the steel and ensure the crystals are all uniform in size and type. You can also normalize, which means bringing up to critical and then allowing to air cool, a few times.
Next, I hardened the file by bringing it up to critical and then quenching in oil. Different quenchants cool steel at different rates, so you need to figure out what works best for the steel you are using. Oil is generally a slower quench and can help keep the steel from getting so stressed it cracks or breaks. Water is faster and various brines are usually the fastest. There a lots of ways to harden a knife, and sometimes only part of the knife is hardened.
Finally the knife needs to be tempered. Tempering is basically heating the hard but brittle steel up to a certain temperature (in this case 400 degrees F) to remove some of the brittleness and introduce some springiness into the knife. There are ways to heat treat without tempering, but generally knives like that don't have the same springy quality as a knife that has been hardened fully and then tempered back. They tend to stay bent when bent rather than spring back.
This is a really basic way to talk about heat treating. Heat treating steel can be very complex, but hopefully this helps!
+thepuppetmagician heating the steel up to critical and then quenching makes the steel very hard but also very brittle, tempering sacrifices some of the blades hardness but makes it much less brittle and less likely to snap or shatter.
+thepuppetmagician When you're dealing with a hammer-forged metal, especially if you are twisting or folding the metal, certain stresses can build up within the metal due to it being stretched out in some places and compressed in others. Rapidly cooling the metal in water or oil causes it to become extremely hard, so it's essential for blades, but thermal shock is an issue - imagine dipping a hot wine glass into cold water. It will shatter. If you don't alleviate the built-up stresses in the metal before hardening, the same thing will happen to your piece.
To do this, you heat the metal to just past the point where it loses magnetism, and allow it to slowly cool in the air, and repeat several times. This evens out all the stresses in the metal and reduces the risk of the blade breaking or warping during quenching.
While you are working on the shape, you need the metal to be soft and malleable, but it can't hold an edge in this state - so quenching is necessary. After quenching, the blade is extremely hard, but also extremely brittle - it would shatter if dropped. So it must be made a little softer and more flexible to be able to absorb impacts better. That's why he put it in the oven for a while. This softens the blade slightly, but not to the point where it can't hold an edge. The hotter you go, the softer the metal gets.
+thepuppetmagician The best way to think of it is that heating and quenching tempers the steel. Baking the steel then relieves the stress caused by tempering, which is what makes the steel overly hard and brittle. This part of the process is called "stress relieving".
when you don't heat treat metal and try to bend it, it will bend and stay that way. when you heat treat, during the first step you make the blade super strong but its very fragile like glass, you quench it in oil so that it doesn't have time to just cool down and the atoms to go back to their normal state. on the second stage when you heat it to the wheat color, it relaxes the metal and makes it more resilient. If you're still interested and have ever looked and studied a katana you'll notice it has a slight curve, this is due to the fact that when they heat treat it, in the first step they but clay over the spine so that it stays strong and won't get a dent when it gets hit, but because of this when its quenched the spine contracts and the blade expands creating the curve... sorry if I didn't explain things very well or if my grammar was bad don't judge, I'm only 13
Badass man!
Thanks for watching!
beautiful knife, great instruction. liked and subbed
Most of the other blacksmith tutorials involve power hammers and various dies for them, you make true blacksmithing tutorials that are achievable by most people, thank you
+LaserPenguins Thank you for the kind words and for watching!
Should learn to blacksmith, it's actually easier than all that cutting and grinding.
I think its easier but grinding is more fun
+wayne maciasac Hardly.
And hot file.
+Rex Mundi Your profile pic makes that statement perfect.
2:33 "Hey Tom" "Oh hey Bill"
XD How did you think of that while you were watching this?
"That hurt"
Likeitornot I have no clue
+tito1rocks hahahahah!
I was inspired by your video to make this knife. It turned out pretty well!
Awesome! I'm glad this video helped.
+BackyardBowyer Could you make one for me just like that and I could pay for it?
I annealed the file by heating it to cherry red, then slow cooled it in a bucket of perlite over night. Made it very easy to work.
that is a very attractive blade there. Perhaps a red or black acrylic spacer halfway through the leather would really make it stand out.
very nice
great work
files are mostly made of W2. quench at °1800 temper at °350 for one hour. twice. files make a very durable knife.
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Looks like you used a Sturmabteilung (SA) dagger for your model.
Thanks for watching!
It's a Schutzstaffel dagger with an ebonized wood handle with the SS runes inset.
+Chase Ramos propane torch
+Chase Ramos the fire brick or prolite?
shuv it up your ass
Kendall Reinhardt lol what
what is that White stuff in the bucket were you it in ?
Tomas Tamosauskas
It's called pearlite, it's a medium used when growing hydroponics. You might be able to find it at garden centres?
Thank you.
Beautiful dagger - really want to make one...well as close to that as I can.
Ian Macfarlane me too
I have to say, this was one of the most complete videos for an amateur to learn how to make a knife.
You did a great job with the video, and with the knife. My grandfather and I made a similar knife together, and it brought back great memories.
Keep up the good work!
As an aside, look for really old files at flea markets and yard sales. some newer ones are cast steel, which won't work. Older files will usually say FORGED on them.
It's gorgeous... I cried...
Very nice!!!
How can this video have any dislikes, seriously? That turned out amazing.
Beautifully done
Nice bro.
Amazing work brother, truly. I can't wait to start some simple projects of my own. Your work is very inspiring.
How much time did you invest is this dagger? it turned out beautiful. Thanks for the video, and a thumbs up to you.
Yo dude someone stole your video and put it on facebook without crediting you
you should put the link, because otherwise, its impossible to do anything about it.
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Beautiful work!
A great creation with great use of tools at hand.
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It's very good
Beautiful knife
Very nice job!
Dude you have a lot of control on your angle grinder. I'm sure you could do heart surgery with that thing =P
woah,good maker! The dagger is very well made,although personally I wouldn't have chosen a plate pommel,which would be redundant with the cross-guard...but it's only a matter of taste.
You make it look really simple. That's encouraging for beginners like me as we develop our own skills......
What kind of liquid in which you inserted the dagger..... Plz tell......?
I'm not sure how long it took you to reach critical temp with your torch, but I just used another version of this from Harbor Freight on a rasp bush knife (15 inches long) and it took around 7.5-8.0 minutes from turning the gas on to quenching. :D Thank you so much for your response on where to get the tool! My life has been made so much easier!
Every time I put a knife in the oven for tempering I have the irrational fear of the blade shattering if I lay it down a bit too rough.
Very cool. A little tip I use, you can use the stone wheel on it's side to make a "hollow grind" which gives a good spine and a killer edge. And then you can buff it out with a flap disc! Keep up the good work
Beautiful job. That knife looks fantastic.
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you can learn all that how to craft a knife with in 5 years of apprenticeship this guys polishing skills need working on .but to say he done it all by hand i will give him 99 percent out of a 100 ...from a x sheffield knife craftsman :) a dyeing trade soon the skill will be lost. its people like him and me that can keep trade alive . but its 1000s years of craftsmanship thats been past down the centuries and today's power tools that make it look easy
Wow. it has been a long time since I watched one of your videos. You sure have expanded your skills.
Bro... Cant believe you shaped that with an angle grinder. Hats of to you . that takes talent. Good job and keep up the good work.
Brilliantly done. Thank you for sharing.
The dagger looks cool!
It only lacks sheath/scabbard.
Real good work.
young feller you are strong warrior, it is time for you to make a Moose hunting tool and come to Cape Breton Nova Scotia and I will take you hunting moose you get first kill with your creation.
That’s beautiful bro. Very inspiring
VERY IMPRESSIVE!!! I am setting up my shop for knife making myself, my son, and my grandson. I am putting a belt grinder, forge, anvil, hammers, tongs and all the other trimmings, and then, I see your video using minimal equipment.. As a VN vet, I also thank you for your tribute to the military. I am now a new subscriber!
that is very good... sir you are truly talented. I hate too ask, but could you do an aggressive stress test on that beautiful knife to prove to me that I could make one of these in my garage and have it be worth while
Да, только высокоуглеродистая сталь не перестала быть таковой, даже после «закалки».
При первом ударе по плоскости, этот клинок сломается.
You are really dumb.
Thank you buddy, It's just amazing what you do qned how you do it¡ From Mexico. Congratulations¡¡¡
Excellent workmanship man.BTW files are usually high carbon steel between 1 and 1.25% carbon.
Que producto es las piedras blancas en que la introducía al principio
thank you very much! very clear and detailed video and explanation!!
You are very clever..thankyou for sharing . :-)
I heard somewhere that 19Th century blacksmiths made knives from old worn out files. Now I see how it's done. Phenomenal! Excellent backyard craft and now I have an idea how to make those Black Mamba throwing knives that I had as a kid back in the seventies.Not to mention arrow heads,spearheads...swords maybe? Much thanks for sharing! I'm putting you on my Facebook.
Maaaaaate that is some seriously Beautiful work, and you make it look way too easy. Your years of skill and craftsmanship show through with this awesome creation. Huge congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,
That knife looks really good. Too bad I don't have an propane torch!
Beautiful dagger, your work is awesome. I have a Kershaw boot knife (dagger) from around 1980, made in Japan. Do you use water stones to sharpen a dagger knife. I have never sharpened one before but it needs sharpened. Ray...Oklahoma
Man you are one hell of a craftsman... Were you taught this skills?
Nice work.
Do you have a brother who is really into KAC Sr15s?
I would LOVE to see you compete on Forged in Fire.
Have you entered an application?
Perhaps a competition of TH-cam Knife Masters?
Dagger came out very well.
What kind of disc on the angle grinder are you using to grind in the bevels. Is that a metal grinding disc, or flap disc 60/80 grit ?
PS. Thanks for recommendation youtube how to make a chopping knife from a rasp.
That was frkn amazing...bro you are talented.....have you made throwing stars?
ANOTHER THUMBS UP.
That is awesome !
Would love to see a bushcrafting knife tutorial :)
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Very nice i love the fact that it is very much like the v42 British WW2 God bless from Canada eh great video thanks I watched your video back in the day when you were making PVC pipe bow's good to see you are well brother!