Tonight's forge action, "bang-bang-bang"

[Alan Molstad]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsqrSw8WZvg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_1soZg134A

I dont say much of anything in the clips.
I just was working in my shop and my wife caught a few seconds of the action,.

My steel is 52100 ball bearings.
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You may have to waite a while tonight for the video to be offical with Youtube...it takes a while for them to post it to be seen

 

[warrior24]

very nice video thanks for sharing it with us.

 

[Alan Molstad]

It was fun, and becides, Im at my wife's work computer tonight and its F-A-S-T, Fast!

Took 3 seconds to upload onto YouTube here, but at home with my hand-crank dial up, it takes about 2 hours to upload the same video.
The knife you see me doing tonight is going to be destroyed in the morning after I finish it.

I want to see what I have learned about forge work and knives....

I will stick the knife in the vise and bend it until it snaps.....

we shall see how it goes....

 

[warrior24]

good luck bending it

 

[Alan Molstad]

I made a type of clamp to hold the tang-end of the knife that will allow me to use a torque wrench to bend the knife with.

My guess is that I can pull off a 180 bend,,,,I know I can do a 90, because i did a 90 about a year ago,,,
However I have never tried to do a 180 bend....that would be cool to video ...