Making a Kitchen Knife: Integral Bolster from Round Bar (Knife Making)

This project turns a round steel bar into a kitchen knife with an integral bolster and a wide blade. This is a good example of the transformative nature of blacksmithing to turn steel into completely different shapes just using a forge, hammer and anvil. I will take you through all the necessary steps and provide detailed narration. The knife making skills shown here are fairly straight forward and this could be a project for a beginner to intermediate blacksmith. There is even an attempt at hamon to control the differential hardening of a shallow hardening steel. Pattern Welding Explained T-Shirts: RedBubble: https://rdbl.co/2BSFDkr Tee-Spring: https://bit.ly/3hOnhC7 A big thank you to the following Patreon patrons: Andrew Hecker Debora Richards Jon Drud Lucas Gourbeyre Nils Anderssen Rashar Arji Ryan Hobbs Wayne Agostino Patreon:   / nielsprovos   Subscribe:    / mintwart   Follow me on Twitter:   / nielsprovos   Like me on Facebook:   / nielsprovos   Filmed on a Sony PXW‑FS7. Color grading in DaVinci Resolve. Chapters: 00:00 Start 00:10 Prolog and Framing 00:39 Kitchen Knife via Magic 01:34 Kitchen Knife as Blacksmithing Project 02:00 Cutting W1 round bar 02:12 Marking location of bolster 02:31 Forging front of bolster 02:49 Establishing blade section 03:08 Broading blade with beveling dies 03:31 Forging tip of the knife 04:07 Moving base of blade towards bolster 04:24 Forging bevels 07:33 Establishing and flattening full tang 08:38 Normalizing blade steel 09:20 Rough grinding the knife 12:06 Finer belt before heat treating 12:53 Removing vertical grinder marks 13:39 Applying clay for heat treating 14:41 Heat treating by quenching in oil 15:21 Testing hardness with a file 15:30 Tempering to reduce brittleness 16:03 Finish grinding the blade 16:33 Straightening the blade 17:15 Preparing handle scales 18:41 Cutting steel pins 20:04 Gluing handle scales with epoxy 22:53 Polishing the blade 25:31 Hand polishing the blade 26:00 Etching the blade to bring out hamon 27:50 Sharpening with tri-stone system 29:03 Cutting tough vegetables #blacksmithing #knifemaking #kitchenknife