Forging (Schmieden) a Knife Blade From a Leaf Spring

You can see this Axe finished in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBBkjt8TbQ8

This is a video of me forging and shaping a large blade from a piece of leaf spring using the waste oil forge.

The Tongs I made: http://knivesbysteve.com/knifepic01/Picture%20189.jpg

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[PuYanHui]

It feels like you wasted lot of steel. You should try and get an idea for how much steel and how much knife you want PRIOR to making anything. You forged an 8 inch tang..

[69furball69]

@PuYanHui If you click the link in the description you will be able to see the finished axe in the video.

[ManufacturedLack]

Awesome effort, you've got spunk!

Kudos to you. 

[2244113322441133]

thumbs up for jackhammer arm!

[Polakonoid]

stu*pid kid*s



[Polakonoid]

stupid kids

[sszabo777]

I love the critical remarks from the peanut gallery. He is just starting out and and at least he is doing something, on video, for the rest of us to see. I for one think that is great. He clearly needs some more information and experience but that comes with time. Stick with it brother and you will be amazed at where you end up! Oh, and ignore the fools who put you down and make stupid comments. It is easier to criticize than do. Where are their knives and videos?

[frozenwalkway]

so he made a spatula what.

[frozenwalkway]

@69furball69 your both wrong. get a strong magnet put it some where next to your forge. get it to alittle hotter than non magnetic. and then quench it in oil. then you can use a blow torch and heat the cutting edges to a faint yellow dark yellow or brown is too hot. but for the middle and back of the blade u can do a blue temper past the first blue for a sringy temper instead of a hard one. if you have an oven set it at 400 for 1 hour and then just blue the back.

[69furball69]

@jonkat100 Yeah, those gloves I was using were really slippery so if I held the hammer further back it was always slipping, more dangerous than choking up on it in that case. Some hockey tape and better gloves has solved that problem.