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Man Makes miniature knife from a steel bolt
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| 6/3/18
| Bobby Duke Arts
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.
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: knife; miniature; video
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Me, I can't even sew a straight seam.
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posted on
06/25/2018 5:00:37 PM PDT
by
Buttons12
To: Buttons12
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posted on
06/25/2018 5:01:50 PM PDT
by
Buttons12
To: Buttons12
That was really cool. I love these types of videos.
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posted on
06/25/2018 5:07:51 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: Buttons12
Not a genius at posting threads either :o)I clicked on it just fine in the original post.
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posted on
06/25/2018 5:08:57 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: Buttons12
Just mentioned that to my grandad and he said “piffle - we were making knives in metal shop in HS out of files”
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posted on
06/25/2018 5:13:10 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: Buttons12
Nice...there’s a dude in Japan I think with lots of videos making kitchen knives out of like folded aluminum foil and whatnot. Really interesting.
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posted on
06/25/2018 5:13:42 PM PDT
by
1_Inch_Group
(Country Before Party)
To: Drew68; Buttons12
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posted on
06/25/2018 5:16:29 PM PDT
by
BBell
(says stupid things posts dumber things)
To: Buttons12
Sewing is trivial compared to what that guy did.
I’d love to have some tiny but functional knives like that one.
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posted on
06/25/2018 5:29:26 PM PDT
by
exDemMom
(Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
To: SkyDancer
Anza knife company makes knives from files. The files are too hard and brittle for a good knife blade so they need to be annealed some by heating to a moderate temperature for a time and then slowly cooling. The steel becomes less hard, but is also less brittle. Then comes the grinding, polishing and mounting of handle.
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posted on
06/25/2018 5:40:18 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: MtnClimber
Making knives out of files is what we did in Jr High, our grades came from the chisel we had to make from bar stock.
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posted on
06/25/2018 5:49:19 PM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
To: Buttons12
Daddy told me that during WWII, actually just after the war, he was part of the Army of Occupation.
He saw a tiny pistol which he said fired cartridges about the size of a match head. It was an automatic and actually worked.
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posted on
06/25/2018 5:49:37 PM PDT
by
yarddog
To: Buttons12
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posted on
06/25/2018 5:53:53 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: BBell
I always figured that's what my Orc sword started out as:
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posted on
06/25/2018 5:57:29 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
To: SkyDancer
I grew up as a metal worker/Welder.
Watching “forged in fire” the other night my buddy asked did you ever make anything like that?
I did not say a word, sipped my beer, shrugged and thought of guns made in shop class
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posted on
06/25/2018 5:58:44 PM PDT
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mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Buttons12
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posted on
06/25/2018 6:02:04 PM PDT
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mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Deaf Smith
Was the chisel steel treated to be very hard, by heating to red hot and then dropping into a bucket of oil or water? Or was it tempered by heating to a lower temperature for a while and then cooled slowly?
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posted on
06/25/2018 6:04:23 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: mylife
Chatted more with gramps and he said yeah, guns.
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posted on
06/25/2018 6:10:49 PM PDT
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SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: MtnClimber
Same thing he did/they did in class but then reheated and placed in cow hide shavings to cool.
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posted on
06/25/2018 6:11:55 PM PDT
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SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: SkyDancer
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posted on
06/25/2018 6:18:18 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: SkyDancer
The red hot and quick cooling forms very small crystal structure in steel. Small structure is hard, but brittle. Long crystals from slow cooling bends easily and is soft. The ideal knife blade is in the middle, moderately hard, but not too brittle.
The heating to below red hot and then slow cooling is called the tempering process and lets some of the crystalline structure grow so it is less brittle. The Case brand knives have a logo Case XX. The old Case knife blades were tempered twice. Each tempering was recorded by scratching an X on a part of the blade that would not be seen.
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posted on
06/25/2018 6:24:46 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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