You have been asking for a long time how to make a steel melting furnace and a crucible. We decided to film the crucible making process for you.

@huntrezz01

Жыл бұрын

is that a regular red brick or refractory brick 🤔🤔🤔

@davidmacfadyen165

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much, always love seeing the making of the steel

@mikegreene6742

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for this!!!!! This is the video I have been waiting for!

@jdmec81

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the blade making community. You’ve accomplished better results with recreating a wootz like metal than anyone I’ve seen.

@KevinJamesLaw

Жыл бұрын

So you allow the crucible to air dry? Does it actually take a whole month, or is it faster? And could you bake it in the oven to speed up the process?

It’s extremely nice of you to show everyone this. It’ll doubtlessly entice others to tear this journey.

This shows how much hard work is involved behind the scenes in making your beautiful knives! Thank you for a peek behind the curtain! Slava Ukraini!

@fz-makingknives3663

Жыл бұрын

Geroyam Slava

I was one of the people who asked a long time ago. Thank you for sharing the information on making the crucibles. You are a legend and I love watching you make your knives. Thank you from Australia 👍

@fz-makingknives3663

Жыл бұрын

THANK YOU

This is the reason why that I follow you. That's the very wootz steel I've imagined and been looking for.

The crows approved!

That’s true craftsmanship - start to finished product.

Ура!!! Видео, после которого не остаётся "глупых" вопросов. Мастер как всегда порадовал. Спасибо!

@user-uf9ms7rk3k

Жыл бұрын

А вопрос про использование ингредиентов для тигля? Слепить то можно, но из чего?

Much love and appreciate the behind the scenes that everyone has been asking for for so long now! I’d love to one day be able to make something on this level. Maybe in another lifetime.

Thank you for sharing the information on making the crucibles. You are a legend

@fz-makingknives3663

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

Thank you so much for sharing. You are very generous with your knowledge and watching you work has always been thoroughly enjoyable, I always love watching your creations come together. Another big thanks from Australia.

Yes!!! So cool!!! Thank you for sharing this video!!! This has to be the most important knife making video on KZread!!!

Thank you for posting this. I have been wondering about the furnace aspect for a long time.

Fantastic video! Thank you! I would be extremely interested in getting a list of exact measurements, and possible links to vendors of the materials. I am interested in attempting this, and would like to get the process perfected.

wow, I never thought that take so much work, congratulations on your craftmanship, from Argentina

I always wondered if you made your own crucibles as I know to buy they're not cheap. Thank you for showing this process, much respect from here in the UK.

Dear FZ,謝謝您分享這麼好的解說影片

a very very very big thanks for share your knowledge and your process!! you don't know how i can be happy to learn from one of the best wootz master in the world!!! thanks you again and again and again!!!!!! please never stop to create videos and make knives!!!

@fz-makingknives3663

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

Thank you, that was very cool seeing how it is done like that. Hope you and your family are safe and healthy.

@fz-makingknives3663

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

You have killed one of my curiosity's. 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌👍👍👍👍👍👍

Very cool to watch making ingots process start to finish

Thanks so much for sharing this, and also for all your other videos ! I never miss one !

@fz-makingknives3663

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

Merci pour cette démonstration, pour fabriquer un four de fusion et un creuset pour l'acier wootz. 👌

Great setup! Would love to try at some point.

Amazing as always! Thank you for sharing your secrets and art

Fantastic video ive wanted to know how to do this for ages but couldnt find enough information thank you.😊👍

Thank you SO MUCH for showing us how to make these! Thank you thank you thank you!

@fz-makingknives3663

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

Wow! Before this video, I used to think that these videos are somewhat a video editing trick. This is amazing!....

Wow! Never knew how much work was put into the making of these beautiful knives you make

@daveprokop1917

Жыл бұрын

Why the glass

@Skinflaps_Meatslapper

Жыл бұрын

@@daveprokop1917 The glass creates an atmospheric barrier to prevent oxidation of the steel while it's molten. Without the glass, the steel will oxidize and lose carbon content.

@daveprokop1917

Жыл бұрын

@@Skinflaps_Meatslapper did not know that. Thank you. Take care

Thank you for sharing your process, and also the beautiful work of your finished knives. You have inspired me to try out some of your methodology.

Magnificent - thank you so much for making this video

@fz-makingknives3663

Жыл бұрын

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Thank you for sharing this information. I hope that one day I will be able to utilize this information.

I always wondered how you made that!!!

I love watching you make wootz steel amazing

@fz-makingknives3663

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

The arcane knowledge is revealed!

@fz-makingknives3663

Жыл бұрын

😁👍

Always like the way your knives turn out, what temperature do you have to reach to make the materials melt? Thanks

I didn't know you could actually MAKE a crucible like that, or at all....thank you!

Excellent and very interesting instructional video. Thank you very much!

@fz-makingknives3663

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

you do a magnificent job! we see that you are passionate

Thanks for sharing love you knife work and steel making.

Many thanks to you mr.fz

Thank you! I was just wondering how you do this while watching one of your videos the other day. One other question, why did you stop leaving a hole in your lids?

First I must say I am amazed at your work, I am a welder here in US. And love working with steel and wood, May I ask where you get your graphite for you crucible mixture? And I admire you artistic work, Amazing.

I have a smelter, never used it. Think I will and do a video, thanks for inspiring me

Very cool , thanks for showing us how you do this from start to finish. I enjoy your videos. Keep on cooking

@fz-makingknives3663

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

I like your crucible construction ! Well done …. Id avoid the use of bearing steel as this tends to have Cr in the mix and this was not an element that was in ancient wootz steel. very nice video

Thanks for sharing!

اتمنا لك دوام. الصحة عمل يستحق لاحترام وتقدير

Beautiful!!

Very interesting. Nice video.

Thank you for this video!!

Very informative, thank you for this video!

@fz-makingknives3663

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

Esse é o vídeo que todos os que amam a cutelaria esperavam. Contém a receita da fabricação do cadinho e outros detalhes. Muito obrigado por compartilhar.

is there any draft on your crucible mold or does it just slide out no problem on its own?

Good job 👍

@fz-makingknives3663

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

Great video thanks for sharing very interesting to see how you make your crucial

Thank you!

Thank you

Merci bcp pour ce vidéo 😁

Thanks. Can you grind up and recast the busted crucible? I assume you'd have to add new graphite each time but don't if it'd work.

Awesome! Thank you. I have been wondering what your crucible recipe is

what temp do you think it gets in your furnace to melt not just the steel but all the other elements in your stock.

Our boy FZ has done it again!!! I am sooo proud of your work and the video with all of the scrap Wooten and differs metals in your other video was awesome!!!! Would you ever make blades from this process for the market? Best regards from your New York people and be well!

Good job mister

@fz-makingknives3663

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

Thank you so much!😀

Amazing!

So cool I though you just used normal concrete but it a mix of stuff! do you reuse the broken Crucible for the next Crucible or trash it?

Amazing video.

@fz-makingknives3663

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

I love watching your videos. They are always fun. Could we get general amounts of the materials you used for the crucibles in the mix?

@N1ck00

11 ай бұрын

Assuming 525g final weight at 7:30 ~33% whole bearings (173g/525g=33.33%) ~58% bearing balls (303g/525g=57.71%) ~9% iron powder (46g/525g=8.76%) It looks like he adds around 2g of graphite at the end, though that's just an estimate. Maybe 0.5%? If you're considering steel strength, you would want around 0.5-1% carbon by weight. The ball bearings he uses are likely 1% carbon already, so you might adjust the recipe he's showing here to have more iron powder and less graphite powder. Glass powder is just flux, enough to cover the top will work. Not precise. The most important things seem to be the use of different sized bearing steel (chromium steel) parts and iron dust to create the wootz pattern, plus a little carbon (graphite). For anyone looking to try this, you might use this recipe: ~90% Chromium steel parts of various sizes ~9.9% Iron powder ~0.1% Graphite powder + Enough glass powder to cover the top

@QwispJr

11 ай бұрын

@@N1ck00 Thank you for that break down of the steel. That does help for when I want to do this later. However, I was asking about the crucible itself, not the metal going into it.

Дякую вам за це відео

This is another amazing video! Do you have to re-build the furnace every time you create an ingot? Also, what types of steel work best for wootz? I think I've read the ball bearings are often high in chromium. Great video! 👍

@garethbaus5471

9 ай бұрын

If you want to get pretty close to the composition of historical wootz steel you might try melting 1 part W2 steel(for the vanadium) to 9 parts wrought iron with enough charcoal powder to get the total carbon content up to 1.5%. The chromium from ball bearing steel is a carbide former, but it will be somewhat different than vanadium, and I don't know how much you would need to use.

@fredrichardson9761

9 ай бұрын

@@garethbaus5471 This is fascinating to me - I read the old Pendray articles way back when, but metallurgy is pretty far over my head.

Thanks for sharing.👏👏👏🤜🤛

Hi, what do you use as fuel?? I see some bricets "high pressure someting"? I normally use a coke.

Awesome traditional way ! For why you added glass before melted? Anti oxy layer ?

So, what is it that gives the wootz pattern? Is it the alloying agents in the ball bearing steel, or is it something to do with the process? Also, is it possible to make those crucibles with cheaper materials? Very, very cool work. Cheers!

Very good

@fz-makingknives3663

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

That is so cool. It's a baby hockey puck waiting to transform into a bad ass razor sharp cutting instrument.

Thanks FZ. 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

Hello friend, allow me to ask you a question. Do you build the crucible for melting steel using cement? Cement, sand, and lime? Thank you very much.

True wootz will come from the mine of Salah Ah Din. There's a 3% vanadium content in that ore that isn't present in other areas, which made for exquisite patterns once drawn out.

@janstefan694

Жыл бұрын

You are make some "true wootz" right now?

@jeanladoire4141

19 күн бұрын

3% vanadium ??? No. No way. Maybe 0.003% or 0.03%, but not 3%. A tiny amount of vanadium is enough to change the pattern of a wootz steel, and vanadium is rather rare in ores.

@gra4279

19 күн бұрын

@jeanladoire4141 it's not about the pattern, it's about the properties that the vanadium imbue into the steel. Those swords were known to flex in combat and then come back to being true after each strike. The mine that Salah Ah Din used was found again, and the composition of the ore was determined from samples taken.

@jeanladoire4141

19 күн бұрын

@@gra4279 ancient wootz steel didn't have significant vanadium content, it didn't affect the properties of the steel like with modern steels. Larrin Thomas recently made a video on his tests of wootz (following the ancient compositions) and the performances were pretty bad. Hard steel, but very brittle. A lot of ancient wootz swords weren't even hardened, by fear of breaking them. Tiny amounts of vanadium only had effects on the pattern, and not much more

Very cool video. I like how you do it all from scratch but I know that every brick layer who watched, shook his head and smiled😆.

Great video..

@fz-makingknives3663

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

Awesome! Thank you very much!

@fz-makingknives3663

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

Thank you so much😍😍😍

@fz-makingknives3663

Жыл бұрын

👍

حديد جميل ورائع 😍

What is the average time to cooking the steel? Thats the only cuestion that left, all the video is well made to get the metallurgical knowledge thank you

Very nice. Have you ever gotten any ore from the woods mine around Damascus or wherever? They say it makes the prettiest pattern and maybe the most carbides? I forget the Mines name. It's the famous one owned by a king long ago. Anyways it's said to make the best stuff for some reason I forget what is was in the ore than made it special. I'm sure you know tho

What are those little brick things that you used to burn? I am very interested!!

nice cooky!

what if you throw some non-steel metals in there what would happen, could you make any usable alloys?

Do you use charcoal or coal? How much coal/charcoal used for to make an ingot?

Fz,做的好！

I don't know if you have answered this before but are you using coal or charcoal to fuel the furnace? I have access to both just curious how you go about doing that?

@jeanladoire4141

19 күн бұрын

Usually it's said that charcoal is a better choice for heating crucibles and melting metal, it makes a wider fireball

Tq for shareing 🙏

Respect masterknife

Very interesting video, do you have to build the forge every time you make a blade?

@fz-makingknives3663

Жыл бұрын

Takes dozens of times

Can i ask? Is that what you use? Wooden Brick as fuel? You don't ide coal?

I’m not familiar with wootz Steele is it better that Damascus or multiple folded high carbon

Do you have to restack all the bricks each time?

Can i get a list of the crucible ingredients cause as far as i can see chammote and fireclay crumbs are both just ground clay that has been fired and im confused as to the binding aspect if there is no mortar or raw clay