How to Use Heat Treatment for Making Your Own Knife: Home Workshop Knifemaking

Have you always wanted to learn how to make a knife? Well, here's your chance. With a few inexpensive tools, some easily acquired materials, a little hard work and this two-disc DVD production from Paladin Press, you can learn all the basic skills of knifemaking and be on your way to producing your own high-quality custom blades.

Master Bladesmith Wally Hayes first shows you how to turn your workshop into a functional knife shop for less than $250. He then takes you step-by-step through a complete course in knifemaking, including profiling and grinding your blade; differentially heat-treating your knife (using a home-built forge that costs less than $40); embellishing your blade with filework; crafting form-fitting Kydex sheaths in your kitchen oven; polishing your blade to a mirror finish; attaching a slab handle and doing a Japanese cord-wrapped handle.

This video covers the complete construction of two knives - a chisel-ground tanto-style neck knife and a flat-ground utility/hunting knife - and is one of the most detailed courses in knifemaking ever captured on video.

Available now from the Paladin Press Professional Action Library: http://www.paladin-press.com/product/Home_Workshop_Knifemaking/Knife_Making_a...

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[381polaris]

what matirial are you useing to make the blade?

[PaladinPress]

@381polaris Thank you for the question 381polaris. I personally do not know what material Mr. Hayes is using in this clip, but here is his website where you can contact him. If you're unable to contact him, let me know and I'll see what I can find out.

hayesknives com

[PaladinPress]

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[stuartracing1]

I couldn`t find any clay so I used some plaster mixed with some dirt and water....Would that work just as good you think????

[dirtyer76]

Nice work,thank you for vid post.

[DenEldenKrieg]

this is cool

[RnW93]

Some great tips mentioned here, Thanks for posting :)