 Hello friends. I hope this finds you utterly sensational. I'm Chris Thrill, I'm a former Royal Marine and when I'm not hosting the popular bought the t-shirt podcast or doing reaction videos I like to do a bit of bushcraft and I thought today we can get the studio sorted out. I thought today I'd show you what I've been working on. So first off hello to everyone in the chat. Should we have a look at the intro again? I made this myself. Yes and the artwork there none other than the angry bootneck. So hello Matt if you ever get a chance to watch this. So this morning I've been doing a video for Instagram. Let me just show you this one. You won't believe how long just a one minute video can take. Let's have a look. Hello legends. Did anyone recognize the picture? There you go. I've been busy getting out there smashing life and I've been working on my bushcraft knife. There you go with my very own thrall and bear claw logo. Complete yourself taught folks of YouTube. If you'd like to see a longer video on making the bushcraft knife get on to my YouTube channel. It's just another reminder. Get out there and get out and smash your life. Much love. There we go. Hang on. Yes hello to Frank in the chat. How are you sir? Great you can join us Frank and you made it on time this time because I know you often you often miss the lives because I do them at short notice. So yeah there you saw my intro and I didn't know some of you are old enough to remember this one. It's by Nigel Foster and it's called the Making of a Royal Marine Commando. That's why I got the idea for the thumbnail for this video. And this was the book to read back in the day if you're thinking about joining the Royal Marines this had it all in there and the funniest anecdote in here is when a Royal Marines officer stayed at an army barracks and it was for a guards regiment and he sat at breakfast in the officer's mess in the morning and he leans across to to a guard who's unusually wearing his you know the big hats what are they called begins with bee doesn't it not beef eater but you get what I mean somebody put it in the comments below the video and this chap's wearing his his headdress and so the Marines officer says again excuse me could you pass a sugar please and the guard turns to him and says when a guardsman wears his headdress down to breakfast it means he doesn't want to be disturbed at which point the the Royal Marines officer stands up on the breakfast table walks along it shoves his foot shoves his boot into the guards breakfast and says when a Royal Marines officer when a Royal Marine puts his boot in your cornflakes it means pass the F in sugar don't know how much don't know how much truth there is to that that one but um but it is funny bear skin yeah that's David's got it so anyway right let me show you what I've been making and I've I've been taking my time doing this it hasn't been a quick quick process I've sort of been spinning it out over the last couple of years or so but it's really good fun um for anyone that likes bushcraft and you might watch a bit of Ray Mears and you know Ray he's got his own brand of knife and um I started getting in watching knife making videos which are really really interesting to watch one of the sort of better things on YouTube you can say and um one day I thought I'll have a go at that and I bought some antler some deer's antler at a bushcraft festival years earlier and it's for this bit here can you let me know if you can see my cursor in the chat um it's for making the handle and so I had this deer antler for years and years just tucked away in the garage and finally I thought right I'm going to make this knife I thought it would just be a case of uh buying a bushcraft blade and putting the knife together then I realized that you can actually make the blade there we go hang on I'll show you a bit better excuse the state of it it was all shiny and if you leave it for a while they they start to get a bit of rust on them um so yeah when I realized you can make a blade then I bought some 001 steel which has got a high carbon content and then I thought I'd better buy a grinder so I bought the bench grinder then I bought another bench grinder then I ended up either buying all the tools to make knives or um or making it myself which I'll which I'll come on to so there's your bushcraft knife this is a sort of um a Finnish knife as in from Finland and they say that the um the sign of a good knife sheath is if you try to throw the knife out of it or cast the knife out of it if it sticks in there it's a good sheath and these knives obviously would have gone back to the the Samma the Samma people the um uh what are they called what do we call them we don't call them Samma but you know the indigenous tribes that lives in the north of Scandinavia um again somebody put it in the chat yes so there you go I I found a knife on youtube that I like the look of and um drew it out on a piece of paper it's the first stage then you cut it out surprise surprise then you stick it on your 001 steel and the thing about having a high carbon content is it means the blade will remain flexible because of the the steel that's in it but the carbon allows you to get a really sharp edge there you go there's some uh metal workshop type information can't say I was really that um that into that but you can see the carbon content there someone who knows more what they're doing would um that would make more sense wouldn't it uh quite thick this this steel that's what four millimeters makes the blade really heavy gives you a bit of um chopping power there's my gallery there's my gallery in the garage I'm just going to um um I'm just going to refresh the chat guys because it looks like it's paused oh maybe not Frank can you just write something in the chat because I can't seem to see any of your your comments unless there aren't any so yeah so there's the knife drawn out then you've got to cut it out if you haven't got a band saw then you have to cut it out with the the grinder and as you can see you get through quite a quite a fair few uh grinding blades and there I just laid it out with a rough approximation of what it would look like when it's got the handle on and I decided pommel and the the hand guard you can see there the hand guard that's I think that's tungsten it's got a really nice color to it it's sort of in between in between brass and steel and yesterday I spent with my um thread borers again I can't even think of the names because I'm I'm sort of quite new to this but the you know the tools that you cut a thread with so I put a thread on to the end of the tang and then drilled a hole into the pommel there obviously and then cut some thread into it and tentatively I put the two bits together and turn the pommel unfortunately it um it's it's screwed on nice and secure tap and die well done Richard you're being an absolute legend today you can be my right hand man in the uh in the man cave mate so what else we've got here that's just like I say to give me a rough idea how it would look I decided to put a saw on it just because you know why not and there you can see my logo below it with a bare bare claw that logo you um you make yourself a little machine using a power pack so like a mobile phone charger you take it apart you um what do you do you attach some crocodile clips to it and then you you cut out your stencil and then I think you use lemon juice on the surface of the metal and when you run the current through it it etches etches your logo out again it's quite a clever quite a clever process this was a um my own uh invention a bit of heath robinson there but I I wondered if I shoved the two drill drills together on the workbench whether I'd be able to grind the uh grind what do you call it the the the bevel the sharpness of the blade it's called the grind and yeah it worked quite it worked quite well it's quite surprising you just have to run the blade through enough times and then I use the um the bench grinder as well or the bench sander I should say there we go yeah just like that and finishing it off on the bench sander shining the blade and once you've sanded them with a really light sandpaper or um god all the names are escaping me today but a bit of wet wet and dry um and then you put it on the polisher it really really comes up sparkling almost like a like a mirror hello Colin oh thank you thank you royal really appreciate that Colin Sanhees enjoys the the podcast that's from a brother royal marine there's my dremel bought all the kit can't say I've used a whole lot of it but the dremel's good for carving you can see uh where are we you can see the uh this bit here this hollow the dremel was good for for grinding that bit out there you go needn't have shown you had I it's amazing when you see your knife taking shape um to be honest I'd normally would have screwed screwed something up by now and I managed to to keep it all tight on this um um on this bit of uh metal work when I was at school I used to just over file something or grind it down too much and end up having to start again you can see there where I've marked the um where I've marked the saw on the back of it feel like we're going around and oh would help if I went the right way through the slides and this is the oven the furnace because once you've cut your blade and you've shaped it and you've given it a rough sharpen you've got to temper the steel and unless you're rich enough to buy a furnace or you happen to have one you have to um you have to build one yourself using fire bricks and fire cement and a blowtorch or two blow torches frank sound wears the sticky back uh plastic didn't teach you how to make these on blue Peter mate huh there's a hole for my blowtorch shaping the chamber using the the uh cement I'll show you a video of this going in a moment shaping the entrance so you keep as much heat in as possible you've got to really get this blade hot until it glows cherry red when it glows cherry red that's your indicator to shove it into a bucket of oil sticking it together not sure not sure what what I was doing there smoothing off the cracks so no air can get into it or no heat can escape yeah you can see it comes up pretty shiny there's my uh the logo I figured out for myself and this is the hand guard I guess you call it the hand guard the finger guard um it's not the easiest of things in the world to drill out but again I quite surprised myself managing to do it all with a drill and a file that's a bench drill and then I just filed out the filed it out to get it to get it rectangular only managed to snap one one file doing that and uh that was me yesterday just doing the the tap tap and die Richard wasn't it um yeah John's saying shame I've got no access to a forge I did have someone offered to make me a bushcraft knife um in fact no it was the Sykes Fairburn the commando knife someone contacted me from Austria I think it was and then they never got back to me so do you fancy seeing some videos I won't bore you too much but let's see what we've got and better put some headphones on stop the stop the feedback loop turn the volume up a bit is this me using the furnace I'm not sure sounds like it getting the blade ready put it in I think I'm using the the grips what are they called mold mold grips there we go heating up the knife blade now it's quite obvious when it's ready to quench because it it it glows this specific cherry red color and is it something about um rogue you you'll probably know the answer to this I think when it loses its magnetism that's also another sign that it's ready it's because the molecules start to shift or some such thing mold grips yep there we go just checking the color in in the darkness or in the in the shade shouldn't really trust a boot neck with um with fire but hey ho I don't know what um because I cut the slits inside I managed to fit it in uh the problem now is I think I've placed the inlet valve of the jet of the gas uh too far back so one end of the knife is getting cherry red and it's losing the uh the magnetism but the other end is is is is hardly getting red at all so rather than just go ahead and quench it for the sake of it um I think I'm just better to adjust the furnace slightly and then see how we get on I think you're right sir I'm grinding the um the handguard here obviously for this first knife I just wanted everything to be sort of traditional obviously bushcraft knives don't generally have a hand protection they just have the blade in the handle but um I just wanted to kind of almost make like a stereotypical sheaf knife it's really handy having the uh the right tools as well just making my furnace excuse the upside down video look at that isn't my boy good at filming there's only six years old gets it all in shot and everything that's right and he won't stay here I think we're going for it again here are we is this the one I think it might be put the colour of that into the oil that's the Yorkshire um T tin as you can probably see but what I what I did is I bought myself an ammunition can a sort of 7.62 um ammunition can and um works really well because when you've used it you can obviously shut the shut the uh the ammo can and and save your oil for for another time after you've done this you have to put it in the oven and probably rogue state's going to be able to tell me why you do that I can't quite remember but you've got to once you've um tempered this steel this this putting it in the oven for I think I think it's something like four hours I can't quite remember it might have been an hour again it makes it makes it stronger again I'm not sure if we've seen all this so that's about it friends quite really good fun thanks to everyone who's joined us in the chat by the way um yeah just uh really good fun hobby wish I had more spare time that I could put more time to it might go and do a little bit today it is it's quite addictive um and uh yeah I'd recommend anybody gets involved you can make these knives out of any old steel people make them out of um old axes bits of railway line you know the the pins that hold down the the railway lines um all kinds of stuff but yeah really good fun okay folks have a massively brilliant weekend thanks for joining me and um I'll see you next time