The Cheapest Way To Heat Treat A Knife? Does It Actually Work, And Give Good Results?
How to make a mini forge for knife making. In this video I show how to make a cheap heat treating forge, and see whether you can realistically heat treat a knife using it. You could probably forge a small knife using this mini forge but mainly its for heat treating after stock removal. This is a great way to get started with knife making. You can absolutely heat treat a knife using a mini forge like this one, if you pay attention to a couple details.
Chapters
00:00 Can you actually heat treat a knife with this stuff?
00:31 Quick disclaimer about steel
01:38 How to Make a mini forge
03:35 Going over the testing to see if this will actually work for heat treating
05:03 Fine tuning the burn chamber MUST DO THIS
05:35 First test
07:51 Mini forge fail! Watch previous segments to know why
09:18 Trying it again with another knife
10:25 SUCCESS!
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