Knife making has existed for so many centuries that I am certain any knife we make is a blatant copy of someones previous efforts. I enjoy your channel. Keep up the good work.

A Craftsman-Blacksmith in the true sense. Simplistic and to the point, done with an obvious love for your creativity skills..!? Thanks, i enjoyed every minute of it..!!

I can see that little forge being modified to be the fire pot in a larger forge, Very nice little thing :)

I love my charcoal forge. Cheap to run, fun to use and the best way to forge weld. Plus, I use it to make the coffee and cook lunch and my neighbours think I'm having a BBQ

@gstongs

Жыл бұрын

Small charcoal forge comes in really handy. Also love mine. Thanks sharing. 😬

Love the mini forge and the knife, the skeleton handle really makes it. Thanks Glen.

@gstongs

Жыл бұрын

The knife is unique but nothing to write home about. Abby said it's cute so I gifted her another, bigger knife! I need more knife making practice... Thanks. 😁

More cole means a larger fire with less oxigen, especially necessary for forgewelding. Also keeping burnt cole at the end is useful for an easy start next time. Nice to see you working the cole forge. Thanks for sharing!

@gstongs

Жыл бұрын

For sure your points are very good. And I have some "used" coal leftover from this for next start. I really like using this mini forge. Thanks. 😬

Best Blacksmith from the entire KZread. Clean and sharp stile of making stuf! GJ!

Man this guy speak like a og ai. Nice vid I’m thinking on purchasing on and giving it a shot

Nice little knife there Glen, thanks for sharing. I'm sure your yoga teacher will be chuffed with it.

@gstongs

Жыл бұрын

Abby said, "wow, that's so cute". So in addition to this, I gifted her a bigger knife! Cute maybe isn't what you want to hear when describing a knife and some other things. Thanks Tony. 😁

Hey I wouldn't worry about those people what they say they're a bunch of haters I love your show😊

Well, that was fun to watch. good job Glen...

@gstongs

Жыл бұрын

Abby said this knife is cute. I proceeded to gift her a larger, perhaps more useful knife. I gotta get more blade practice in. Thanks for sticking with my channel. 😬

What a kuul project! Lil charforgeasaurous really did a job no doubt. I think you like it a lot. " Hello Costco....I need to order some chunk charcoal.... Blessing brother Crawford out 🙏🔥⚒️🧙🏼‍♂️

@gstongs

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, this tiny forge or charforgeasaurous is really fun to use. Great name by the way. I have to remember that for future videos! Thanks for sure. 😁

Nice job! She'll love it.

@gstongs

Жыл бұрын

I haven't heard any feedback but she said several times it's "cute". So I decided to gift her another, bigger knife! 😁

Nice change of pace Glen. A far cry away from the Beaver Cleavage vids flooding my timeline

@gstongs

Жыл бұрын

I just ignore the nonsense when possible. But my feed also gets jammed with some real hammer head videos. Thanks for sure. 😊

Great little knife, Glen! Hair or no hair, Abby will love it! Lol!

@gstongs

Жыл бұрын

Hey Steve, Hair today, gone tomorrow. Abby said the knife is "cute". Not exactly what you want to hear about a knife. So I gifted her another, bigger knife! We men are truly stupid at times. Thanks for all. 😁🙃

@MinionsSmithy

Жыл бұрын

Ouch! "Cute" is definitely no what you want to hear! Was the next one a bowie knife, or a machete? 😂😂😅😆

How could they forget about the mini charcoal forge😂😂.great video

@gstongs

Жыл бұрын

Hi Ty, This forge is no joke! Works well for what it is. More to come... Thanks. 😁

I have made a knife out of a file in a coal forge the only thing I don't like about coal forges is you get like a backwards curve bit. But I made it for my mom so she can chop veggies with it good. But I like to do blacksmithing and bladesmithing like they used to.

That came out really nice! 👍👍

@gstongs

Жыл бұрын

It's not terrible and I'm sure Abby can find some use for it. But I need to get more time in with making knives in general. Thanks. 😬

I just brought a fordge like this for wok cooking looks like it will work well

@TalRohan

Жыл бұрын

thats a cracking idea

@gstongs

Жыл бұрын

Hi Barry, someone else is using their mini charcoal forge for making coffee and bbq'ing. Your idea sounds good to me. Thanks for watching. 🙂

@gstongs

Жыл бұрын

I agree. Thanks. 😬

That little forge is so cool. I don’t have the space or $$ for a big blacksmith set up, but this would be fun to mess around with. Is that from where you are at?

@shootinturkeys

Жыл бұрын

I’ve been wanting to mess with blacksmithing for awhile now but I don’t want to spend a lot of money on a forge so I was looking around and found this same one on Amazon so I looked it up on KZread and it brought me here

@andrewlast1535

Жыл бұрын

@@shootinturkeys I found one for sale like that for 400, restored. Think that’s good deal?

@codiwiersma3091

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewlast1535 amazon has cheap ones for >$200

Great job!

Nice job Glen!

@gstongs

Жыл бұрын

Thanks robert. This knife is nothing special but Abby seemed to like it and so that's all that matters. 🙂

Hey Glen. Hope all is well.

@gstongs

Жыл бұрын

Hello there Tommy. Thanks for watching and I wish you the same.

Excellent 😮❤❤❤

Hey Glen, you can make the next Blade show. My favorites knife making channel is 'Tyrell Knifeworks'. Denis earned his Journeyman's at Atlanta's Blade Show last month. Enjoyed the video

@gstongs

Жыл бұрын

Hey Brooks, I would be laughed out of the building! And now on display: a baby knife made with a baby forge by a baby brained balcony blacksmith. Glad you enjoyed and I will continue with the occasional knife making project for sure. Thanks for all. 😬

@brooksmartin5183

Жыл бұрын

@@gstongs LOL, don't under-estimate your skills! Stay safe.

Knife looks good, to hot to forge here also under a burn ban

@tomfarrow710

Жыл бұрын

Nice work keep the good work coming, thanks

@gstongs

Жыл бұрын

The knife is nothing to write home about but Abby got a kick out of it and called it cute. Later, I gifted her a larger, perhaps better knife. Thanks Kennard.🙂

@gstongs

Жыл бұрын

I'll do my best Tom. Thanks. 🙂

Just curious about that step where you were rubbing the knife on that red hot chunk of steel . . . what was the purpose of that?

@mzteuszz4569

6 ай бұрын

Tempering

I've enjoyed watching this, I have but one question, and I've got no experience in blacksmithing, because it's already hardened still, is there no more hardening or quenching need to be done once you got the profile you wanted? Thanks for your time.

@gelanghaarteweile3048

Жыл бұрын

Every time you heat up a hardend piece of steel it loses its hardness. You need to re-harden after finishing your work with it. Steps are the following ones for forging a blade: 1. Work: you heat up the metal and work and shape it. 2. Normalization: You heat up your piece of metal to critical temperature (hardening temp) and let it cool slowly so that all material stress can disolve. Do that 2-3 time. 3. Hardening: You bring your piece of metal to critical temperature (~720-810°C) at which it will be nonmagnetic and quench it in hardening oil or water, depends on the steel. 4. Tempering: You take away a bit of the hardness because the steelblade would be so brittle it would break like glas. So you put it in an oven for about 2h on 200°C That's a very rough discription! It's like explaining how to drive and say: "well you get in the car and start the motor and stomp on the pedal and than it moves!" :)

How quickly does that forge come up to heat?

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Not every file is the same .Old files can be hardened in oil ,new production files are quenched in brine at factory which is combination of 10% kitchen salt and water for faster cooling.

@gstongs

Жыл бұрын

I actually learned this the hard way very recently. I made a tool from another file and the heat treat went haywire. Very good information - thanks for sharing. ☺

Where can I find a square anvil like he got

@timocsutube

4 ай бұрын

He had that machined I think.

Nice knife Glen, might be just me but is the handle upside down?😁

@gstongs

Жыл бұрын

I honestly don't know. I've seen most of this style made this way. Maybe a case of monkey see, monkey do and I the knife videos I saw were made by actual real monkeys which probably makes me less than a monkey... Thanks Paul. 🙃

@paulorchard7960

Жыл бұрын

@@gstongs I could be the monkey Glen,but to me it just looks odd!

@gstongs

Жыл бұрын

Hey brother, you just need to do a handstand when watching and forget which side the edge is on.

@paulorchard7960

Жыл бұрын

@@gstongs Thats gotta help!🤣

Interesting to me that you can get away with having an open fire on your balcony. My last apartment complex would have terminated my lease!

@armageddontools

Жыл бұрын

Mask it as a bbq -no problems .Actually noise from hammering might be the bigger problem.

@gstongs

Жыл бұрын

Taipei is sort of unique in this way. I'm actually on the roof so few people can smell it and to be honest, once it's fired up well, there's little smoke. But the unique thing is so many people here burn "joss" money on certain special dates - money for dead people. You would be hard to tell if I'm making an offering to deceased, bbq'ing or blacksmithing. Thanks Bryson. 🙂

@gstongs

Жыл бұрын

You're very close to perfectly correct. Thanks for still being active on my channel. 😬

You didn't show how you engraved it

Don't forget the coin!

@gstongs

Жыл бұрын

Hey Alan, don't forget what? You lost me. Thanks all the same. 🙂

@Alanbataar

Жыл бұрын

@@gstongs The old superstition, that you always give a coin with a knife, lest the knife sever the friendship. The coin is returned to you, making it a commercial transaction, not a gift, neatly side-stepping the threat of a severed relationship.

If you used water on your coke and made a little cage and ran your rod through the cave you could have heated that knife up anywhere you wanted .