Posted on 06/25/2018 5:00:37 PM PDT by Buttons12
Found this video on youtube, just had to share. Unbelievable skill. The guy turns a plain bolt into a miniature knife.
We had a 1.5 cubic gas furnace. Water cooled for temper ‘cause we were in Jr High and would have found a way to set the oil on fire. :)
WOW! Thanks very much.
Nice work
Poor old Mr Poe was the metal shop teacher, He tried to learn us to be frugal and creative
The old penny pincher! LOL
We’d heat up a quarter in the forge and toss that out on the concrete deck.... “He, he, he... got myself a Yowl! quarter!!!”
He’d pick up the quarter with a pair of pliers, quench it and mutter “stupid kids..”
He was a good shop teacher
When all us kids drove Mr Poe nuts, he would take a mental health day.
There, was this goofy sub that came in who wore a toupee
That guy never had a chance.
Chris and I are setting him up, taking hits of oxygen off the unlit cutting torch...
“He’s like what are you boys doing”?
‘sniffing oxygen... Makes you feel good, makes you feel energetic...’
We got that guy passing it around, LOL
Chris says take a BIG old hit and cuts on the acetylene!
That guy turned BLUE
Bkmrk.
I clicked on the original ok too.
Interesting video, and nice work. The guy sort of freaked me out a bit when he stopped and stared into the camera.
Interesting work though.
We just blew up lawn mower engines that got left out...acetylene & oxygen into the carb and pulled the rope.
When I was about 7, I wanted a pocket knife, but my parents said no. I went into my Grandpa’s wood shop and hunted around for something steel. I found an 8 inch steel gutter spike and went at it with an anvil and a hammer, until I’d made it flat enough on the pointed end for a blade. I then used some emery cloth to give it an edge. After that I took the crude knife and whittled a wooden handle and stuck it on with rosin Grandpa had in his shop. Once the glue was hardened, I beat on it some more and then sharpened it again with emery cloth. I had to wrap the handle with string and varnish, because it kept coming apart.
That was my first knife. No, it didn’t look like the one in the video, it was functional, not pretty.
The following year I joined the Cub Scouts and finally got a Boy Scout folding pocket knife.
Bobby Duke is hilarious but more seriously, a very talented craftsman. Enjoy watching some of his builds, especially his ‘But you can do this’ build vid.
I just went to Western Auto and bought a trusty Barlow knife :)
It has been a VERY long time, but oil quenching is the was to go for general purpose tempering.
You are correct about water tempering and crystallizing.
The temperature of the water makes a huge difference, but Oil has a different thermal coefficient and is more forgiving
Probably learned from a master—someone from prison who makes custom made shanks.
That’s cool! Loved the editing too!
Watched him make one out of Jell-O. Crazy!
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