I have a forge somewhere! Lmfao that's the story of my life! I do appreciate that in most of your videos you use stuff that most people have in their garage or could easily borrow from a neighbor. Very cool

I've started making things with lether and the sound of it being cut is satisfying and soothing at the same time

@WyomingWright I appreciate your mindset and I’ve always found a solution to anything holding me back. If I don’t have a specific tool I find or build a work around and keep on moving and try my hardest to accomplish what I had set in mind. Most the battle I think many people face is lack of creativity. They see others build or make something and think they can’t do it without the same tool when if they just thought about it for a bit they could come up with an option to make things happen. I enjoy your videos and positivity and I also appreciate the fact you lift commenters up and tell them not to look at themselves as a victim and they can do it and I respect that about you. Have a great day !!!

Great idea. Thanks for sharing.

I bought some new small cheap wood chisels off of Ebay. I sharpened them down on a diamond stone, then a wet stone, then stropped them & they are sharp as anything I have ever cut with. They made great little skiving knives & straight blade cutting knife like cutting in a square corner. I think I spent $5.00 to $10.00 for 5 of them & they have been worth every penny. If Tandy had a set of these they would want $100.00 + for them.

@wyomingwright

Жыл бұрын

Love it!

@alierem4266

9 ай бұрын

Best deal ever. Also, possibly due to good skills in sharpening. Enjoy.

Nice job! Thank you for sharing. I've wanted to make a knife for quite a while. Maybe I'll get the to make one soon.

@wyomingwright

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Trial and error..brother. Nice work. 👍

You can save your stone by doing some rough shaping and initial sharpening on sandpaper.

Perché hai messo nel fornello elettrico il coltello ? Grazie

When such a piece is on hand, why not use both ends? They can be prepared at different angles for variety, as well as having in readiness 2 sharp edges without having to resharpening in a mid project. Of course for safety, caps for it can be made out of cork.

@prowokator

23 күн бұрын

You could have left and right handed blades, one in each end. Would be handy especially if you don't have room around your table when cutting.

I've made similar from power hacksaw blades. It's a good way to recycle used blades as they are made from High Speed Steel.

@wyomingwright

Жыл бұрын

I’ll have to try a hacksaw blade. I have plenty of those :)

@scottmasson3336

Жыл бұрын

@@wyomingwright not an ordinary hacksaw blade. Although they make nice fine flexible blades it's blades for a power hacksaw that you need.

@wyomingwright

Жыл бұрын

Oh I see, like a sawzall blade :) I have plenty of those too.

@dfcjr

8 ай бұрын

Sawzall blades make great filet knives!

Thanks for this showing. For those of us new to this, could you explain what you use for the acid etch aspect. Thanks

@wyomingwright

Жыл бұрын

I used ferric chloride. The longer you leave it in there, the darker the metal gets. I like how it looks, plus it helps you see differences in hardness on the steel. You could use any acidic fluid. I’ve seen people use vinegar, it just takes a lot longer.

@ericerf6837

Жыл бұрын

@@wyomingwright thank you for this and I appreciate your response as well as how simple yet effective your methods are, so to speak.

I like the resourcefulness. Nou please tell me about your punch pad/cutting pad please. Thanks

@wyomingwright

Жыл бұрын

It’s a hard rubber pad you can get at a farm or ranch store. Usually placed in the bottom of horse trailers. I cut a big square chunk of for my tabletop. It’s virtually indestructible. Probably not the best working surface out there, but I had it and it works pretty darn good.

Love the video! But what to do if I dont have sandpaper grinder ? What is alternative ?

@wyomingwright

5 ай бұрын

One option is to use a bastard file to bevel the edge and then sharpen on sand paper. Another option is you ask around and see who might have a grinder or belt sander. You might be surprised at the tools that are available around you when you put some effort into reaching out.

Love a handmade tool!! BTW, what is your cutting mat made from. It looks recycled and probably was cheap- just my style!!

@wyomingwright

11 ай бұрын

Thank you, sir. My cutting mat is a section of rubber mat such as you would see some people put in the bottom of a horse trailer. You can pick one up at a farm supply store pretty reasonably. I do believe they are recycled rubber. I’ve been using mine for a couple years and it’s held up really well. Although I will say it does have a little give to it so it’s not the best for smacking sewing chisels, tooling, or setting rivets. I have a large anvil I use for that.

What do you use for quench oil?

@wyomingwright

8 ай бұрын

I think I used canola oil in this video

@djanes7210

8 ай бұрын

Thanks

how to blunt an edge. always draw away from the edge when sharpening. never toward it

Brilliant... How has this beautiful knife held up?

@wyomingwright

5 ай бұрын

Still use it all the time. I messed up in the heat treat though. The tiniest bit of the tip cooled too fast before the quench and didn’t get hardened. So I ended up curving the profile of the tip to remove the soft spot, resharpening, and now it’s golden

@wickedways1291

5 ай бұрын

That's wonderful and it's kind you responded. Well, you have inspired an old artist to try his hand at making his own knife. Thank you @@wyomingwright

These looks like iron age forged knife

What diamond stones are you using? Do you recommend them?

@wyomingwright

4 ай бұрын

I used the dmt double sided diamond stones. They are pretty good, but if I bought them again I would just get the course and fine and not mess with the extra course and extra fine. I also use a three strop system with 3 different stropping compounds to finish. Works pretty good, but I’d like to add some high quality ceramic stones as well.

@backwoodsengineer

4 ай бұрын

@@wyomingwright I just ordered a set of UltraSharp diamond stones. It was that or DMT. I’ll probably get a set of DMT’s too just to try both. Need to get a strop, or make one.

The problem was holding your knife against grinder belt direction

Indigenous people heats the file up to make it softer. Then later

you can do it your own with 500dolar machine :D

@wyomingwright

Жыл бұрын

What $500 machine?

@vmarc4682

Жыл бұрын

@@wyomingwright I think he means the belt sander.

I think leather tools are way cheaper than that sand belt or whatever it's called you have there. I guess I'll just go buy myself a knife

@wyomingwright

5 ай бұрын

I get it, man…tools are expensive. It’s taken me a while to get the few I have. But the laws of the universe dictate energy in, product out…It takes effort to make something. When you’re first starting and you don’t have as many tools, it takes even more effort. Use some sand paper and some elbow grease. Use a file. Borrow some tools. There’s lots of solutions. One thing that won’t help is victimizing yourself. Don’t let your lack of one specific tool keep you from accomplishing something you really want. You can do hard things!

1$ PLUS 5k IN SHOP TOOLS.

@wyomingwright

10 ай бұрын

I was waiting for that one. Yeah you gotta have tools to make stuff. I did use a second hand belt grinder, a weed burner and some sharpening stones. Hardly 5k but I get your point.

@escapetherace1943

9 ай бұрын

get creative dude. Metal hacksaw if you are giga poor or an angle grinder if you're average joe, use some sandpaper wrapped around a drillbit if you have no sander (there's like 60 dollar sanders that work okay enough...) and use a propane blowtorch to heat it up before quenching and doing the main profile with a file then a sharpening stone. Assuming you own a way to sharpen your knives you can make one of these for 30-50 dollars of tools you probably already have.

@dfcjr

8 ай бұрын

I just made one of these for woodworking. The Japanese call it a kiridashi. I used a hacksaw, a couple different files, and sandpaper.

I'll take a $10 knife from Amazon, delivered

@wyomingwright

Жыл бұрын

You’re not wrong. But I had fun making this one and I do use it.

Make a leather knife for 1$ you just need to have 300$ worth of equipment tools 😂

You have a real creative definition of poverty if you think people can just happen upon workshop tools and machines to make their own tools.

@wyomingwright

6 ай бұрын

Who said “poverty”? Don’t be a victim

@varun009

5 ай бұрын

He has a point. It's a catchy title but pretty misleading. For someone getting into leather working, it would likely cost more just to acquire some of the tools you used than it would be to just use a box cutter with a wooden spine added for rigidity.

@wyomingwright

5 ай бұрын

Granted, but you might be surprised what tools are available to you when you ask around. Everyone has to find solutions for their own situation. This video shows my solution. Not all of it will apply to you, but some of it may. It’s hard to find solutions when you’re looking for problems.

@AlwaysBolttheBird

4 ай бұрын

$5 for sandpaper. $15 angle grinder. Small propane torch from home depot. Does the exact same thing just takes a bit longer. Dont act like you cant do this without a workshop you just dont want to do it.

@seanhayes2998

4 ай бұрын

Look into the mens shed movement. That’s exactly what they do.