Lesson 4: How to Make a Railroad Spike Knife | DIY Knife Making: Lengthening Your Blade
This video throws us right into the heat. With Aram, our DIY knife making expert, we go through all the preliminary steps to lengthening your blade on what will become your knife. First things first… SAFETY! Once your beards are tucked away and your cool protective goggles are on we're ready to light up the forge, choose the right tongs, and get going. There are options for which tongs are best for making railroad spike knives and Aram gives his advice on which tongs are best. Then, it's time to jump in the fire. First, Aram shows us how to use the peen to elongate and widen the blade portion of the spike. At this point, it's not necessary to choose which side will become the sharp edge of the blade. What matters is getting the blade to the proper length and width. Aram then goes through the process and starts hammering away at the spikes to get them to the proper length.
In This Video:
- Lengthening you blade
- Which tongs to use
- How hot to have your forge
- What color your spike should be for hammering
- Peening your spike
- And more…
