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Toolmaking - Forge Your Knife

video Toolmaking - Forge Your Knife

This resource will show you how to make your own knife from a steel car coil spring. You will need quite a bit of equipment for this including necessary safety gear and a suitable workshop area. See the materials list of tools.
A note on Safety-
Safety is really important when working with metal, heat, power tools and hammers etc. Take extreme care, make sure you know how to use the tools correctly, do wear the safety equipment mentioned and take your time. If you have long hair, tie it up. More details on our online newsletter here:
http://tlcxpress.ac.nz/2011/07/make-your-own-knife/

6 comments

Jan 25, 2012. 3:53 PM

rimar2000 says:

This is the most complete video about the matter I have seen. Thanks for sharing, specially for putting subtitles. I can read English, but I don't understand it when I hear it.

Feb 13, 2012. 12:59 PMTheLearningConnexion (author) says:

Thanks, we caption all of our clips

Feb 1, 2012. 11:11 AM

blkhawk says:

I wonder if used motor oil could be used in the forging of a knife. I saw once in a video the blacksmith dunking the hot metal in motor oil. Do you think it is a good idea?