Don't need a flashlight when you got that stuff and a belt grinder.

@hanelyp1

2 жыл бұрын

Titanium sparks are BRIGHT.

Nitinol really just says "nah, I don't think I'll be a knife, or anything really. Have fun trying to use me"

@GreenBeetle

2 жыл бұрын

Heheh

@Lumberjack_king

2 жыл бұрын

Nitinal is just not meant for blades its far more useful for its applications in engineering and tech

@beybladesinmyheels1267

Жыл бұрын

@@Lumberjack_king theoretically at least, since nitinol is a memory metal you could just heat it up and it’ll resharpen itself. Kinda like the synthetic knife from battlefield bad company 2.

@Lumberjack_king

Жыл бұрын

@@beybladesinmyheels1267 interesting

@3xeplodng_3agle_studios

Жыл бұрын

@@beybladesinmyheels1267 I forget the name but there was a research group working out how to successfully make nitinol blades, and body armor. It's also used in some medical devices

Ntinol: when you take Nyquil and Tylenol to try to forget all the money you spent on abrasives. Cool blades I dig the sandblasted look of the blade. Also those sparks were bananas!

those scales are really cool, especially the green one. looks like some kind of skrillex album cover art

Hey guys! Critical editing mistake at launch I had to take this down for a few minutes and repost the correct version!

@RadDadisRad

2 жыл бұрын

Alright what did you do differently on this video?

@lucasgumbiner8673

2 жыл бұрын

What was the mistake? I didn't notice anything obvious on the first one.

@GreenBeetle

2 жыл бұрын

Stuff…. Minor stuff but important I’ll spill beans later

@simpleman806

2 жыл бұрын

Made me think that I was losing my mind.

@GreenBeetle

2 жыл бұрын

If you’re here you are part crazy. I’m sorry!

- not really good at holding an edge - damn near impossible to work with - can't even get a cool finish Yeah, I'd file that under "was fun and worth doing...once."

@nathanclarke6694

2 жыл бұрын

I think the sandblasted finish on it is gorgeous; it's not damascus, but there's something to be said for a satin look on sharp metal.

FYI, that handle material us called C-TEK. It's aluminum honeycomb that's filled with resin. You can buy it pre made or buy the honeycomb and do it yourself. I have a couple knives and even a pen made from it. Pretty cool stuff and good video. I had heard SM100 was a pain but didn't know it was this rough to work.

Back for part 2.0. Hell yeah.

Oh I was looking forward to seeing this project completed, it's a shame the material is so hard to work with but what an interesting metal

They came out looking amazing! 😍

I like the workmanship throughout. Well done!

They look absolutely gorgeous! Glad we got to watch the handle making!

You are an absolute mad man. Don't ever change.

I applaud your persistence!

AWESOME WE GET TO SEE HANDLES !!! YESSSS!!! amazing video as always steve, thank you !

Wow, thanks for doing the handles, I love that you are so creative and how you think outside the box for materials. Your the best 👍

Handles are beautiful. Congrats on the sponsor!

Sweet, Great vid as always GB

Perfection all around 🪲

Your videos make my day, cheers mate.

Those knives are gorgeous 😍

At last!! Great work and congratulations on your success.

Came out looking great!

Beautiful work as always.

Your work is amazing 💪👍

Gotta admit the handle scales look amazing 👍🏻

I think that's one of those Japanese knives, "shenobefun" 🤣 looked good though.👍

A thing I've seen Alec Steele and Will Stelter do that should work well for surface grinding non-magnetic stuff with your attachment...they put masking tape on the two surfaces and then glue the masking taped sides together. You get a good hold, and it comes off without whacking the poop out of it later.

Good choice on the scales

*The best way to work with Nitinol is with electricity. Get a large 12 volt fork lift battery (1500lbs.) and use large 0000 wires and weld the Pos and Neg on each end of the Nitilol bar and this keeps it yellow hot for 10 to 15 minutes, long enough to make a knife. I use a 2000 amp knife switch and my assistant keeps the nitinol at the perfect temperature opening and closing the switch.*

@GreenBeetle

6 ай бұрын

🧐

Nice song to end this project XD. Represents rly well the amount of troubles you've encountered through this. GJ, very determined man. Clearly an important quality in the field 👊

Man mad props for making two sick looking knives out of the biggest nuisance material ever. In one of our engineer modules we did a lecture on nitinol. It's got some crazy properties and crazy applications but is a NIGHTMARE to process. Most times they use vacuum arc welding or $$$$$$$$$$ as its more commonly known

I really think they came out great. Too bad they are hard to deal with, but that matt sand blasted look is very nice. Great job!

Thank you for sharing. Nice experiment.

Still a thing of beauty Steve!

Great job!

Munitions metals are always odd to work with and really expensive to acquire. Really good follow up i wasn't sure if it was possible to get a blade out of nitinol.

Love both.

Nice job man

Great experiment. I like the handle scale material. It would be nice if nitinol held an edge though. As tough as it is to work with you would think it would be a superior blade material.

Those were pretty sweet.

For that much material and the hardness of it I would probably use some sort of oil or coolant while milling it. That might be why the carbide end mills broke so suddenly

Took a long time for this to come out but good job on getting it done

just friggin' gorgeous

its cool that it would be unbreakable and if you ever manage to bend it you just have to heat it up to whatever its memory temp is

I was thinking about the utility of a nitinol blade today. One could theoretically make a very long knife or sword portable by bending it and installing a heating element in the blade. When the blade is needed, press a button and the blade will snap back into its original blade shape

those are great. Love it

@GreenBeetle

2 жыл бұрын

🙏

That little divot or deeper cut that occurs on the surface grinder at either end of the stock happens in woodworking too. When planing wood, we call it “snipe”. It’s common so we always plane wood long and then cut down. Obviously not ideal for such a high dollar piece of material, though, I’m sure.

Fit and finish is good as always, at least it is looking through a screen from Australia, thanks for being the guinea pig on the Nitinol steel, never again for you and never ever for me! Cheers

Hey Steve, Nice job. I really like the look and how well the blade finish and handle material complimented each other. This seemed like one of those jobs where you think .."no sweat, I can knock this out with no problem". Then about half way through (and 3 end mills later), you're saying to yourself.."what have I gotten myself into?!?" Anyway, thanks for the sequel. God bless, and take care.

@GreenBeetle

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

Pretty awesome looking knifes, dude! Beautiful work! 😃 But yeah, it's always fun to try new materials! We just need to learn and do not stay using those difficult ones! 😂 Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

Guys from the abyss movie would def need these.... Otherwise not so much. Kiddos for the hard... extremely hard! Work. Thank you.

Not convinced something that won't hold much of an edge qualifies as a knife. Really interesting to watch all the trials you had using the stuff. Sometimes the negative results are important to put out there.

those scales are nice as

Could you try inconel, I've got some and have only seen one person make a knife out of it before but I think you might would like it better than this stuff. Anyway great video as always keep it up my man.

@Santi says gorgeous! I just says YES! Maybe a set of kitchen knives? In Damascus?

I think I'd rather a nice Damascus blade frankly. That being said, you did a great job.

i wonder if it can get back its shape if you bend it.

ALWAYS use weldingglasses if you work with titanium alloys.. the sparks are so bright they can blind you! stay safe.. nice project.. sry for bad english.. greatings from germany

Love the handles especially the green one lol. But those knives are a nice conversation piece, that there only use is to open mail or cut cheese lol. Other than those two things, not much else.

Altought It may look at first a love story, by the end felt like the pricess was so rude that crushed the prince's heart. RIP Carbides.

If anyone likes edc lights olight has their i3t and i5t. I recommend them both.

So was it worth it?? Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

Steve's back! The knife community's Ben Kraznow. Keep doing cool shit Steve.

wow! that's proper commitment to content beautiful work. funny that something so hard wont hold an edge.. any idea why?

@GreenBeetle

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t know. Sorta crazy. It’s not awful at edge holding according to the chart it’s just very meh. Definitely should be better.

They look very nice, but I do agree you could have made some spectacular demascus with the overall cost of those

Thats gorgeous!!! What are the advantages of nitinol? I would love to have one just like this knife

@GreenBeetle

2 жыл бұрын

Stainless, 20% lighter, 3x as expensive.

I think those scales are really cool looking, will be perfect on the knife with the 3D weave effect damascus! Oh yes i still remember 🤣

Why don’t you add your touch/makers mark? How’s a person to know you crafted these? I watched the new grinder review. It looks nice. Thanks for the post!

So if you bend it prying with it you might be able to heat it and it may return to it's former shape? What's the purpose of heat treatment when no deformation stresses have been induced in the material from machining or hardening from transition through different lattice structures

@GreenBeetle

2 жыл бұрын

hardening is the purpose, to HRC of 60-61

4:46 this is like planer snipe.

What’s different about this one from the earlier one?

Dood I need to get you some stone for some handles, I bet jasper or some obsidian would work well with your style Cool upload man and lemme know about the stone!

@GreenBeetle

2 жыл бұрын

Stone handles! Where can I see some examples?

@TheRogueRockhound

2 жыл бұрын

​@@GreenBeetle Good question lol, I find a ton of awesome material and every time I watch your vids I think how cool stone handles would be. If I send you a softer material, such as obsidian, you wont need any specialty diamond tools to shape/form and good sheen would accent the knives well. Chat soon!!

Handle scales for the knife are great looking. But If you never touch them again I totally understand. Still an interesting project, frustrating as it was

If it loses its edge, what happens when you heat it up? It’ll be cool if it even regained any sort of sharpness

How do you get the sandblast finish on the handle after the scales are attached without damaging the scales

@GreenBeetle

2 жыл бұрын

Scales are taped w nylon tape

Also knife is wicked!!

I’m struggling with how one can keep up with how all the pieces go together when you can’t see the pattern. Do you have to etch each piece before welding so yo can see the pattern? Thanks for this incredible video!🐋

@GreenBeetle

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

Any plans to make a copper beryllium knife?

With the properties of nitinol, the only useful blade I can imagine getting from it would be a rapier, where you actually get to make use of the shape memory effect. But after all the stuff you had to go through, man does that not seem worth the trouble.

@Lumberjack_king

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@fallenstudent1103

2 жыл бұрын

Rapiers are still supposed to be able to cut. They're just more specialized for the thrust.

I just have to say, I *REALLY* like that handle material. That is, and I do not say this lightly, truly BUSSIN.

@GreenBeetle

2 жыл бұрын

Is bussin like “Gary Busey-in”?

@rabbidrick7533

2 жыл бұрын

I work with younger people that say bussin so I just say busting instead. They are aren't fans of that. Example, that pizza was busting huh fellas lmao

Love the handle material. Enough of the exotic metals for a while.

I admire your perseverance mate, the result was great, nice and clean. I would agree with you, however; never again. Haha have a good one

Dude, was that surface grinding attachment for your Bader? If so, who makes them for the Bader?

@GreenBeetle

2 жыл бұрын

It was for an esteem grinder, wertz

Hey, they came out looking really nice though.

Digging the first one, the handle of the second one is not my cup of tea personally because the color combination is so busy. Love the bead blasted blade finishes, though!

Love how that resin/aluminum material turned out. Looks like that metal is a bear to work with. You’d think something that resistant to abrasion would hold an edge well.

@roberttodd619

2 жыл бұрын

Nitinol is a metal manufactured by the United states to incase munitions ie bombs it is in no way a reliable source for forging a reliable knife. It's meant to fragment and burn at extremely high temperatures. It's not aluminum but there may be a percentage of tin in it.

@IllNacs

2 жыл бұрын

@@roberttodd619 Excuse me sir, i do believe you are mistaken, perhaps you heard where Nitinol got its name (Nickel Titanium 'Naval Ordnance Laboratory') and simply assumed it was used in bombs because of the word "Ordnance"? After a quick google search and some very light ready it is known that they used it in high pressure hydraulic titanium tubing(a coupler specifically). I can personally find no evidence that Nitnol was ever used in bombs, or documented to "fragment and burn at high temperatures".

@georgejones5019

2 жыл бұрын

@@roberttodd619 I worked with explosives in the USAF. That is incorrect. Nitinol is "Nickle Titanium" hence the name NiTiNOL. NOL meaning Navy Ordinance Laboratory. It was discovered trying to make a heat and corrosive resistant alloy. It's commonly used in robotics or mechanical applications as a sleeve for wiring to prevent chaffing from movement or vibrations. It's also used in some medical equipment such as bone staples or stents.

I'm no expert, but coolant on the mill probably would've helped your bits cut.

Put painting tape on both pieces before you glue, saves lots of time on clean up

Looks absolutely wonderful….sucks there’s no edge retention. After all that you’d think that material would be sharp AF forever!

Nitinol? Never even heard of it. But I didn't know you do knifes for customers. Nice knife

You should bend the blade then hit it with a flame and see it straighten out

Beautiful knife though! 👍

Awsome

Those would definitely be some wall hangers

@Green Beetle Did you find out how the Company making SM100 did forge the Nitinol?

@GreenBeetle

Жыл бұрын

Ni

@GreenBeetle

Жыл бұрын

Er no

Seeing you use the holy blue dykem I all of a sudden heard Alec Steele sing from my speaker.

@GreenBeetle

2 жыл бұрын

I hear it every time I crack the bottle

pretty amazing knife tho!

cool! ill just stick to 80crv2...

I learned with titanium, blue tape & super glue in the middle is so much easier to remove. Ok I've only gotten that far, haha. Back to the video, hope all is well, take it easy.