I can't believe how long I've been at this and never knew how this was done....Thanks Roy!!!!

@ChristCenteredIronworks

7 жыл бұрын

+Charles Wright you are very welcome :-) inlay is one of those things that I don't do very often but when I do I enjoy it in find it to be a great accent to my work. Thank you for the great compliment God bless

This was the best video I could find on this process. I made a thing. Next one will be better. Thanks Roy.

Having learned to inlay from a engraver i find your technique interesting with the biggest difference that I was taught to start with an engraved line.

I just tried t do this before seeing your video. I didn’t undercut it. Now I will go try it again. Thanks for the instructions

Great video and I appreciate the full explanation and insight of different potential methods and applications etc. thank you for making the video 👍

I was looking for just this technique. You nailed the explanation. Thank you!

Awesome video, thank you for helping all of us out here in learning age proven techniques with such care and charisma. It's much appreciated to learn a quick way to inlay wire and your drawings are nice and descriptive.

awesome simple easy technique to add flair to any piece.. thank you for this video.. i am learning so much from you.

Thank you Roy This has inspired me to do some metal inlay .I have machine shop experience from my grandfather and also have a small welding shop. It's now time to play, I'm 82 now and done working.

@ChristCenteredIronworks

6 жыл бұрын

+William Phillips that is awesome I am so glad this inspired you to get out in the shop and play! God bless you for your great comment and may He also bless you in the shop!

You know I’ve never noticed your hand shank Kudos Budi for making up a fake that you have that particular problem it’s amazing what you do

Simple, easy and well explained, thanks a lot

I've filled grooves in a horseshoe mig welding SiBr. and what is really improves it is a little bit of direct heat with a torch...It will "blue" the brass and if longer will blue the steel as well. Thanks again Roy....

Thanks. Love your videos

Very cool! This looks like a very simple, fast, and effective technique for inlaying. I'll definitely give this a try. Thanks a bunch for sharing! Grace and peace to you brother 🙂

@ChristCenteredIronworks

7 жыл бұрын

+lsubslimed thank you for the great compliment and thank you for taking the time to watch Grace and peace to you too brother!

Great video. I'll have to try this. Thanks

Another great video. I wish you and your family the best in this stressful time.

@ChristCenteredIronworks

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you Keith. We appreciate that.

Super. Thanks for sharing. Very well explained

Sweet!!! Thank you for the tip brother!!!😊😊👊👊💪🏻💪🏻

@ChristCenteredIronworks

7 жыл бұрын

+Irish Craftsman your very welcome!!

Great lesson. Thank you.

Beautiful highlight mate. I will be trying that.

Thanks, very interesting and inspirational. 👍

Beautiful!!! Genius! No surprise, though. After all, it's yours. :D Thanks for sharing!

I'll be trying this thanks

Nice inlay Roy, sorry for your loss. Keep your head up and always look forward to the future, things will get better.

Very nice and easy. Thank you

this is great information, as always ;)

@ChristCenteredIronworks

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jacob! I'm glad you found it informative

If I had known it was that easy, I would have done it years ago! BTW, love the name of your shop.

Thanks very useful

Beautiful, may the Lord continue to bless you and your family.

@ChristCenteredIronworks

7 жыл бұрын

+ShofarMan SoFar thank you! And may God bless you also.

great info, sorry for your loss of a family member

@ChristCenteredIronworks

7 жыл бұрын

+dakota territory blacksmithing thank you for the condolences. God bless you and have a great weekend

good job.....for inlay on a tank....but very informative.....

thank it help a lot

@ChristCenteredIronworks

6 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it Elizabeth

Ty soooo much😍🤩

I wonder if this could be done on round stock to give a ring inlay like for a handle

Sorry to hear about your loss.

@ChristCenteredIronworks

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I appreciate that.

It may help, in demonstrations like this, to use a piece of hot rolled bar stock with the dark oxide on the outside. The glare from the polished surface makes it hard to see what you are doing.

@ChristCenteredIronworks

7 жыл бұрын

+DethDelkanara I will keep that in mind for future videos. Thank you for the suggestion

God bless Roy! I've been watching a few of your videos in the last few days and am really enjoying the little insights!

Just stumbled onto your videos, looks like lots on good info is on your channel.... i was going to do this to my straight Razors, I was thinking the plan through and realized I would need to heat treat afterward.... I don’t think it would be a good idea to put the wire in before hand so I figure I could cut the groove, heat treat the steel then inlay the wire. Let me know if that would work, I almost think the heat treatment would contract the groove... but what do I know lik

If I had to heat it up for heat treat would the brass melt out? We used to braise weld on cars and it didn't take that much heat...

Is that copper on the vice? So that u don't leave marks on blades? This video was worth it just to learn that

Would you be able to do an oil finish to a piece like that for that classic matte black, or would the heat damage the inlay?

Sorry for your loss. We will add you to our prayers. This is a technique that I can definitely use with my knife fittings and have been looking for a way to do it. I just need to make/buy the tools.

@ChristCenteredIronworks

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment Eric. I appreciate the condolences. Inlay is a neat effect you can add into a lot of forged projects. Gives it a bit of extra "pop" :)

2nd what Irish Craftsman said. This will be a very useful technique. Question, the first double cut you made that was too wide...would it hold a double wrap of the wire or no? I suppose I should test it out for myself. Would make a nice embellishment with a double wrap bracketed by a pair of singles. May even have to attempt to inlay a Celtic rope wrap if I can figure out how to overlap and stick the wire successfully. Once again, thank you...for this and all the other instructional videos. You my young brother are a good man.

@ChristCenteredIronworks

7 жыл бұрын

+Kenny McCoy thank you very much for all your compliments! The double wide or the two wide line first cut can be used with a twisted wire or braided wire or a thicker piece of soft material. Keeping everything together in a wider slot is a little more difficult but doable. My mentor Tom Latane name showed Me how to do a braided inlay and that was pretty sweet looking I would love to see the Celtic thing in an inlay :-) God bless you and thank you once again have a great weekend

..Nice Job Roy!! Could you do the same with copper & aluminum??

@ChristCenteredIronworks

7 жыл бұрын

Yes you could. Any soft metal wire!

Just the video I've been looking for! Great job! One question though, is inlaying in steel pretty much limited to straight lines, or can you do scrolls?

@possumsausage5029

4 жыл бұрын

You for sure can do scroll work you just have to use smaller chisels to work the curves. Google image search viking/Celtic knives and swords. They were pretty big on in laying designs into their blades such as the Ulfberht and the seax

very young lad for a lot skilful experience

@ChristCenteredIronworks

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Hi Roy, one last question...have you ever put a video out on making a butcher tool? Sorry if I have missed it....sure need to make a few.

@ChristCenteredIronworks

7 жыл бұрын

+Charles Wright nope I have never done a butcher tool video yet but is on my docket to-do list. I will be trying to get those videos up soon as I would like to do a lot more of these kind of things. Thank you for the great question God bless

Great job, You can polish that surface too bring it to a shine ,Is that correct

@ChristCenteredIronworks

5 жыл бұрын

Yes sir thanks for watching

is there a way to inlay brass against a black forged finish or will it melt the brass

Great video,do you think the inlay would hold up if you twisted the bar,I think it would look really cool to do multiple inlays along maybe a 4 or 6 inch section of bar and then do reverse twists along the same section would be a really cool affect

@ChristCenteredIronworks

7 жыл бұрын

+Blacksmith 76 I might do a video on that if you don't try it before I get a chance LOL if you do let us all know how it goes :-)

@hendersonhandmadeironwoodc8881

7 жыл бұрын

Christ Centered Ironworks,I have never done any kind inlay work but sure will be giving it a go soon,it was just and idea that popped into my head after seeing this technique done,I would love to see you do a video on it,I am slowly "Very Slowly" easing into doing some videos but I get terribly nervous in front of the lens even with no one else around lol. Thanks for all the great knowledge you are so willing to share with all of us.

@IslandMetalForge

6 жыл бұрын

I have a few hundred pounds of copper wire and I twist everything lol, I may try this with wire.

Can you reheat and reshape the piece once the inlay is in place? Or will the brass melt?

@ChristCenteredIronworks

2 жыл бұрын

No The brass would melt 🫠

The wire is like 0,4mm? Aweome video

What do you use to neutralize the gun blue?

Roy, let me start by saying our prayers are with you and your family. Sorry for the loss.Second, This is a great idea and I will be able to use this in my blade work. I am excited to give this a try. So thanks for sharing this with us. Question have you ever tried this with wood using metal solder ? Works quite nice and shines up well.Blessings, Martin at M&S Blades and Blacksmithing

@ChristCenteredIronworks

7 жыл бұрын

+martin and shan Moldovan thank you very much for the condolences. And all the prayers:-) I have never tried in laying wood as I'm a terrible woodworker LOL but there may be a time that I have to try and I'll reference this information then :-) thank you for the great comment and God bless you Martin and Shan

Could this be done on the frame of a gun? A rifle receiver?

@ChristCenteredIronworks

6 жыл бұрын

+Pete Lasko given the nature of how much material you need to move in order to do this type of inlay I would suggest learning the method where you cut away using gravers versus chasing tools.

Would it be possible to do this on a hammer without any problems?

if I wanted to put it in a twist would I be able to put it before or after I do the twist?

@ChristCenteredIronworks

7 жыл бұрын

+gotmilk1061 if you wanted to inlay a Twist you would have to start with doing the chased portion first then twist the bar and then inlay the wire afterwards. If you did it first it would pull itself apart. Thank you for the great question God bless you and have a great weekend :-)

@gotmilk1061

7 жыл бұрын

Christ Centered Ironworks thanks for the info

Very nice one. but you have forgotten the link for purchasing the gun blue online :)

@ChristCenteredIronworks

7 жыл бұрын

Hey Jan, thanks for the heads up. My wife accidentally left it out, but just went in and added it to the description. Here's the link also: Birchwood Casey Gun Blue ebay.to/2tuq8tC . Thank you for pointing that out :)

@drewfields4626

6 жыл бұрын

they sell it at Walmart for about 8 dollars

What a bout a knife that you have to quench's? Are the copper or braze survive the heat?

@Turin-Fett

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think so. Those non ferrous metals have a melting point that is lower than what I think a good quenching heat would be. And if it didn't all melt down in the fire, I don't think it would survive the rapid cooling in the quench either.

What are you using to write with

What if a guy chiseled a pattern into a piece, laid wire down into the grooves, and then chucked it into the forge until the soft metal melted down into the grooves? It seems to me like this would be possible in the O2 free environment of a gas forge, reducing fire if need be, or even with a flux coated rod. I think i'm going to try it, but maybe you'd like to try it here too?

@ChristCenteredIronworks

5 жыл бұрын

I think it definitely could be done although with the differences in Cooling and contraction rates that happens in differential metal I don't know if it would stay connected. Would be neat to try though you never know until you try! God bless you and thank you for taking the time to watch

@ISOSAILING

5 жыл бұрын

@@ChristCenteredIronworks i've done it sort off at least on a brass crossguard for a sword i made, cut all the lines on it then filled it with solder, i attempted to do the hole thing with silver solder but destroyed 3 days work, of punching cutting and filing the pattern, in the process as i got it to hot and melted the brass, no reason i can see it not working apart from it has to be totally clean for it to work properly.

have you thought about starting a patreon account? So fans could help you get more film equipment

@ChristCenteredIronworks

7 жыл бұрын

+ThisFish I've given patreon just a little bit of thought. It might be something that I will start here in the future. Hi can't say enough on how much it blesses me to know that there are guys that are willing to support what I do with sharing of their financial funds and knowledge and prayers. I can't say thank you enough. God bless you for the great comment and we'll catch you on the next one.

It looks like you’re writing with a “fun dip” stick from those candy packets. What kind of chalk is that?

@JenksBladeworks

3 жыл бұрын

Soapstone. It costs a couple bucks from hardware stores around the welding type aisles

@stormyeffects4795

3 жыл бұрын

@@JenksBladeworks Cool, thank you for the help

@JenksBladeworks

3 жыл бұрын

@@stormyeffects4795 Any time man! 🔥

cool I like this I was wondering why you are shaking so much and I hope I don't offend you brother god bless you and your family

This method causes a loss of control of width when you get down past the very top surface. Only appropriate on a very crude or primitive object. On a fine knife or other tool, it would ruin the aesthetic. Use caution where you use it.

Why are you shaking so much? Only people I know who shake like that has to much blood in their alcohol system.

Dude, loose Take And from your vocabulary, please.

@ChristCenteredIronworks

4 жыл бұрын

That's fine I will just go back to saying "ummm" 😉

I get it, you like to hear yourself talk. But the chalk on the workbench was a bit much. Next time you should try using crayons, the pretty colors might keep our attention longer.

@mrjp2149

6 жыл бұрын

But I enjoyed the rest of the video and gave you a thumbs up

it'd awesome if you did a lot less talking at the work bench and doing more work at the work bench.

@ChristCenteredIronworks

7 жыл бұрын

Lol, I do get accused of talking to much. Just my style I guess. There are other blacksmiths out there that do less talking. Thanks for your comment! Have a blessed day.

I am sorry if I sound negative but I think that if you are not willing to demonstrate the appropriate technique of inlay you should abstain from making tutorial!