Turning a Railroad Spike Into An Knife

[Hitman]

 

[JCcypress]

All that work and the best thing he can come up with is to slice carrots with it??!!!

How about cleaning a deer or splitting logs or something?

Pretty cool video otherwise.

 

[Leadfoot]

Pretty ghetto blacksmithing tools but hey, its the end product that counts, right?

 

[Hitman]

All that work and the best thing he can come up with is to slice carrots with it??!!!

How about cleaning a deer or splitting logs or something?

Pretty cool video otherwise.

I thought throwing it at least lol

 

[oleheat]

Three homemade knives- built the old-world way!


And the best part is, no one was seriously injured in the resulting train derailment!!!

WIN WIN~~~!!!!

 

[Khyber]

I've made a few of those, back in the day. They arent the best knife steel, but are a great way to practice and have a cool product on the finished end. I've seen a way to make hatchet heads with them, but never made one.

 

[Gringo Loco]

Innovative and resourceful. I like it!

 

[returningliberty]

I've made both a tomahawk head and knives out of rail road nails. It's pretty decent steel and once you polish em up they look real nice. The tomahawk does require a better tool steel insert and a forge weld, but it's not too difficult.

 

[LACamper]

Actually I was more interested in his forge setup. Old bbq pit, old shop vac, and a pile of charcoal?

 

[Spent Brass]

hmm lots of questionable camera angles (see 3:38) and an odd song but overall a neat process. Guess I'm off to steal acquire some railroad spikes.

 

[cbr900son]

As long as he enjoys it I like the end product. the problem with railroad spikes is your never 100% sure on the steel which means you have a rough idea on the heat treatment. NOW that being said Id love to find a anvil so I could make something just like it! Love that old world rustic charm things like that have.

 

[cbr900son]

Actually I was more interested in his forge setup. Old bbq pit, old shop vac, and a pile of charcoal?

It is probably a coal/coke setup and Ive seen people use anything from a vac to a hair dryer to get more air going so you have the temps you need. You would be suprised tho on how complicated some of the smiths' forges are. Some have PID controllers and temp monitoring to where it auto adjust the air source so they can get specific temps which in a forge is pretty cool.