how's it going guys so basically what I
like to do after I post the video how I
made a knife I'd like to go maybe about
a week or so and see what kind of
comments questions I get and then maybe
try to answer those in a video so
basically this knife it was requested by
probably way back by a lot of youtubers
and they wanted me to make this knife
and it is uh it's not my design so I
just want to get that straight it's not
my design that's why this knife is not
going to be mass-produced I'm not
gonna make another one like this so this
knife is for my one of the family
members it's gonna stay in the family so
it this knife is Gil Hibben knife and Gil
Hibben he made a lot of knives for
different movies like Rambo and
Expendables and this is what it is it's
from our Expendables movie and basically
I modified it a little bit because Gil
Hibben's knife the  Legionnaire knife
the handle is pretty square and I wanted
to round it off a little more and the
the handguard is more square looking where
as mine I made it more oval so those are
the biggest changes that I did with this
knife also my knife doesn't have a
fuller and that is basically because I
do not have a milling machine so if I
don't have if I don't have a tool or a
machine to do something then I'm not
gonna make that design in that knife
simple as that
so I'll go over some questions that you
guys had and hopefully answer those in
this video
one of the questions was basically
because I posted a previous video how
how much each knife I sold for and I
told you guys that I'll be posting a
video pretty soon and I showed you the
finished product
of the knife but it took almost a month
for me to post the video because and the
reason is because I tried to contact my
leather guy and couldn't get ahold of
him for like a week or so and by the
time I got ahold of him by the time I
found time to go and drive up
hour-and-a-half to see him and drop it
off and you know and then what happened
was a guy at his work got injured so he
had to work double shift there's a lot
of hours basically and he couldn't
finish the leather sheath for me so took
him almost two weeks to get it done and
as soon as I got the knife back you know
I have to touch it up again and take
some pictures of it sharpen it and that
is why it took me almost a month to
release the video but now it's here and
you guys have seen it the other question
was how sharp it is and basically what I
did I used the 220 grit belt on my
grinder and after I sharpen it I use a
leather strop and I go over and to
get rid of all the burrs and there you
go this is how sharp it is cuts through
paper this is a big knife so it's not
your kitchen style knife well basically
slide through paper and slice it up but
it still cuts pretty good so I'm happy
with it
there was  a question how
balanced is it where's the balance point
so here it is here's the balance point
so it's it's almost right at the
handguard
right here I have to put it really close
to the handguard there you go got on my
pinky so I wasn't aiming for a balance
in this knife because it's a long blade
and the handle part is really heavy but
guess what miracles do happen and it
balance is perfect so there you go guys
somebody commented that I bet my hands
were really really itchy from not
wearing gloves or when I ground the
carbon handle and actually it ground
very fine and smooth it almost felt like
flour that one you bake with and didn't
feel itchy at all why did I use blue
masking tape on my fingers when I was
hand sanding well I believe I made what
fifteen or sixteen knives out of the CPM
154 for the stainless steel and I wanted
to heat treat all of them at once this
way I could save money and I was hand
sanding for days trying to hand sand
all of those two 600 grit from so
basically from 220 grit all the way to
600 grit before I shipped them out to heat
treat and basically I wore out all my
finger prints and I couldn't even open
my phone with the fingerprint app or
whatever the touch touch fingerprint
touch to open the phone and I just
started using the the masking tape and
it big because my my fingers hurt from
sanding so much so that is the reason
why I put
blue masking tape one of the viewers
commented that because the handle is
square it doesn't feel comfortable Gil
Hibbins knife is a lot more square than
this but it's still around it if you
look at it I don't know if you can see
but it's it's rounded it feels pretty
good in the hand it feels comfortable so
I'm happy with it
the knife is beautiful what is your
favorite and least favorite part of the
process both creating the knife and well
as well as the video so the favorite
part it's new it's something new into
something that I haven't done so it
basically I get bored when they make the
same knife over and over again
and that's something I have to battle
with so when I duplicate my Serega knife
or Vipera Invader knife they don't
challenge me anymore because I've made
them so it's almost like I have to shut
off my brain and just do it mechanically
or automatically because I don't know
they they don't challenge me anymore
I've done it
whereas this knife I've never done this
size of a knife I've never done this
kind of long grind convex grind you know
also I battled with putting  the handguard
on but basically this knife made me
think come up with new ways to make this
knife and that that was the fun part
when I started making this knife I had
no idea how I was gonna make this part
what spacers I was gonna use what type
of material handling was gonna use I
didn't know how I was gonna put this on
for a moment I thought I was just gonna
make this one big piece and slide it on
put a hole through in the middle put a
decorative pin that's the way I was
going to secure it or I was gonna drill
the handle out in a way that when the
glue is
in the handle would not come  come off
and I'm not on a metal part right here I
would make like teeth or something so
when the glue dries up the handle
wouldn't move that was my original
thought but I I wanted to do kind of
duplicate Gil Hibben's knife and I wanted
the metal handguard and a pommel so yes
that that that was the favorite part
that I had to think to make this knife
the least favorite part was I was afraid
to mess up on this knife and I'll tell
you why if you guys go to newjerseysteelbaron.com go look at how much
stainless steel cost this is CPM 154 and
compare it with the high carbon steel
it's like four or five times more
expensive so I was afraid to mess up
when I was grinding this that's why I
took it slow I messed up four three
times I messed up three times making a
handguard this is the first time and I
think when I drilled it you know I I I
measured I measured the width the width
of the the knife and I chose the the
drill bit appropriate drill bit but what
happened was when when you start
drilling the the drill bit wonders and
it makes a bigger hole and by the time
you come out that's your actual size
that the drill bit is so after and when
I drilled this one out the first one I
measured the distance the width of the
hole  with the calipers and it
was too big so that one's out the window
so I went with a smaller drill bit got
it perfect started filing hand filing
and I I was rushing and one of the sides
was bigger so when I put it on on
and to the fitted it basically on to the
knife you could see a gap on the side so
this is a junk then finally I got this
part done it would be perfect it's at
perfect no gaps and I was working a lot
of nights at one point and working
working on the knife during the day and
at some point I didn't even work on the knife
for like a week or two weeks didn't
touch it so when I came back to work on
it again
I grabbed this and I said oh okay I
remember I gotta make this corner you
know her it's got to be curved right so
I started grinding it and then when I
put it on the knife you know put it on
the knife this part right here if you
could see that my drawing over the
pencil you see where where it ended so
when you turn it sideways this part was
extended so I either had to grind this
part up and have it sit a little bit
higher or make another hand garden
that's what I did I basically discarded
this one I'll all three of them and made
another one I told myself slow down and
that's what I did slow down and work
thoroughly make sure I don't make no
mistakes and this one came out perfect
now I had to transfer because all the
red carbon fiber was already fitted on
this I had to carefully transfer all
these little holes that I drilled and
threaded I have to transfer everything
onto the new handguard so that was
very frustrating and scary
well the other reason why what a the
least favorite part was big the steel is
expensive I messed up three times on the
handguard now this space right here the
red one I know you guys can't see in the
video but in the pictures you could see
it that's about ten dollars at the end
it's about ten dollars this block aye
I bought it from a I'll put in you know
in the video I think it's AJ composites
or something like that there's this
block of handle of carbon fiber is $150
so if you mess up on on on that handle
say goodbye to your $150 so when you put
all all the money together it's a lot of
money to mess up on so that was the most
frustrating or part that I didn't like
about making this knife but like I said
it came out to my liking so I don't a
lot of you guys like this knife so I'm
happy to hear your responses so that was
pretty much what I liked or this
disliked about this knife the other
thing that I didn't like about making
this knife or it's actually it's editing
the video I am I'm slow at and I guess
or I don't know but it takes me about
two hours to three hours to edit ten
minute video and my wrist hurts a lot so
I don't those of you that work in office
I don't know how you guys do it but
that's my least favorite part about
making a knife Jack of Ages commented
that this is the bottom part this is the
bottom part and this is the top part of
the carbon fiber and I should have used
this part right here and this part the
wavy part should have been up top I
understand
but I like the design or the way it
shows on the handle when it's facing
this way and said it this way I didn't
want a bunch of blocks or squares to be
on the side so this this area right here
the curvy waves I like it more on the
side of the knife and that's why I went
with this style or this side basically
it's a personal preference such an
amazing work man that was really nice to
watch may I ask how many hours did you
did it take to finish this knife I don't
keep track of hours that I work on a
knife but this knife I started in
January but meanwhile I made 15 knives
from the same steel so I worked on it a
little bit one basically what I did I I
cut out all the knives i ground them on
a profile them and then I used the belt
grinder to grind all the bevels and then
I hand sanded all of them and I shipped
them out to heat treat and then I made the
stingray cleaver while they were out in
the heat treat so I wanted something
 for you guys to watch so when one
they all came back I worked on a little
bit and when I got frustrated with
something you know the handguard didn't
work out I would go work on on other
knives on the other blanks there so that
that's why it took me so long to it
didn't take me actually from January to
now to work on it it just I worked on
different knives while making it so no
specific time how long it took for me to
make it I don't even know why did I send
it out for heat treating this is CPM
154cm stainless steel and I do not have
oven
to get the temperature up to what 1900
degrees so plus after that you gotta put
it through cryogenics it's it's easier
for me to just ship it out and get it
professionally done I'm looking at
future if if I get into mass producing
knives I probably still gonna ship them
out and just let them let the
professionals deal with the heat
treating
those of you that
follow me for a long time remember when
I made to gut hook knives and I made a
Viper Invader knife after they came back
from the heat treat they had this
gray scale on them and I had a hard time
hand sanding that stuff off of the knife
and I remember Nick Wheeler
saying something where you throw it in
the vinegar and it makes it softer and
the scale comes off softer and I I threw
that in I know I don't show it in the
video because then after I hand sanded
them I remembered it and I I threw it in
the vinegar the next day it was such a
delight to hand sand
it came off so fast so there was
somebody on Instagram that contacted me
and I said why why don't you use
Byington blades they do heat treating in
California close to your home I said
I'll try them out so I shipped them out
all fifteen knives or 16 to get them heat
treated and when they came back I was
surprised they had no grey scale on them
it almost looked like as if I just
finished hand sanding them and sent them
out and they came back looking the same
so I was surprised and when I talked to
the one of the people that worked there
and they said they have very
professional ovens where they are vacuum
sealed so no air gets in
they basically do very high-end heat
treating for spacecraft or spaceships
and stuff like that so that those guys
are pretty fancy and I am thrilled and
happy the way all these blades came back
I mean they're they're nice and clean
they don't have that grey scale so if you
guys are in on a Pacific side I would
highly recommend those guys and if you
guys are on the East Coast then use
Peters heat treating I missed your
videos and music I I stated this in
other videos but I'm not gonna put any
more music in my videos one reason is
because I am sick and sick and tired of
copyright issues that I've been going
through to this day and I'm done with it
I don't want to do any of those I don't
want to deal with them so when you guys
get a chance come home I know you guys
can't watch you you can't watch a video
and play music at the same time on your
phones but come home turn on your
favorite music on the computer and turn
on my video and combine those two
I'm sure you're gonna have a blast why
were there no sparks when I was cutting
steel with the grinder this is stainless
steel that's why you didn't see no
sparks and as I mentioned before I will
not be posting the sketch of this knife
because this is not my design and this
is Gil Hibben's design so this is one of a
kind I'm not gonna mass-produce this
knife and it's gonna stay in a family
it's not for sale so those of you that
want to make this kind of knife go find
a picture of that knife zoom in or
whatever make it as big as you want
place your piece of paper on the
computer screen and trace it that's how
you get your sketch simple as that
blade is not hand forged as a custom
knife it's worthless as a decoration it
might be worth a few bucks I watched the
video of an old blacksmith make a knife
from a forge to complete project in
hours you are you rank amateur compared
to him
you need a lot of improvements to step
up your game your viewers who comment
aren't doing any favors
you are also anal retentive well I live
in apartments so I can't Forge I don't
want to make my neighbors mad also you
can't Forge stainless steel I mean you
can but the process is very complicated
not a lot of people can do that so
technically usually people don't Forge
stainless steel there are people or
buyers customers that will not buy a
knife from you unless it's forged and
that's fine if that's how you want your
your knife to be made from being forged
with a hammer that's absolutely
fine now there are guys that don't want
their knives to be forged there they're
happy with knife being made the way I
make that's fine there are knives that
are made by machine so those are the
three categories that customers exist
and if you're if you're not happy with
then your knife being machined or
handmade from by using a stock removal
method that's absolutely fine you're
paying for the guy extra time to hand
Forge it so but just because I didn't
hand forged that doesn't mean that this
knife is worthless
that's just basically your belief or
understanding how the knife was made or
should be made based on a video that you
watched of somebody else make a knife
yeah that guy may be faster better than
I am but I never said I was a pro I I
still I'm still learning but also being
an anal-retentive I had to look that up
because I didn't know what that meant
and it basically means it's a person who
pays a lot of attention to detail to a
point that it becomes an obsession and
they and it may be annoyance to others
so I'm basically making you mad by being
very by paying a lot of attention to
detail but that's just who I am
it comes from my mom's side she was
brought up that way to do everything
right the first time  my mom told me
a story where she was knitting you know
they have these spokes and and they
have a yarn and they  knit and
they make sweaters  and she got
halfway done with the sweater or
whatever she was knitting and she missed
one of the threads or something wasn't
lining up and her mom made her undo
a big row of knitting take it all
apart and fix that part and continue and
she was crying because she didn't want
to do it but her mom made her do it and
that's the way I was brought up when I
was a little kid my mom always said do
it once but do it right and when I try
to cheat and I hand sand and
you don't get rid of that little scratch
and you go to the next grit up guess
what that scratch that you didn't hand
sand out it's still there now you got to
use
a lot more a lot more time to get rid of
it with a higher grit so do it once but
do it right and I try to teach my kids
to be that way the way I am so
everything they would do would look
professional so if that makes you mad
don't watch my videos watch somebody
else who is sloppy pretty much it I
don't know what else to tell you well
hopefully you enjoyed watching all my
videos that I put out for you guys and I
did not claim to be a professional but
if you see something where I can improve
let me know leave it in the comments so
I'm still learning I still look up to a
lot of knife makers the professional
knife makers so I want to step up my
game and be I at least reached the level
that they're at
I don't know what knife I'm gonna make
next for the video but I still got to
work on all these knives and get them
done so I could sell them
so whatever knife comes in next in the
video that's what's going to be so
meanwhile practice making your knives
increase your skills yeah I will see you
with a different video
pretty good fit take care guys bye
 
