![]() ![]() It has a nice even color and needs just a little bit more heating. We aren't going to be working that part of it. But you don't have to worry much about the butt of the spike. The more blacksmithing you do the more hammers you are going to accumulate. Watch the video if you want to see the various hammers in action. They make a big difference when it comes to blacksmithing. One thing that I will talk about in this video is variety of hammers. I also have a video tutorial at the bottom of the page You can pretty much visualize the shape of the knife and then hammer it into that shape. And you don't need a whole lot of guidance for this project. If you are new to blacksmithing this is a great project to start out with. We do a down and dirty, quick and easy knife. It is pretty much a staple project of the art. It is one of the first projects that a person might make when first starting out in the craft. My name is Will and if you have questionsĬontribute projects or ideas you can contact me Make a Railroad Spike Knife Some do's and don'ts from a first time knifemaker.How to Make a Sword - an overview of the process.PS You can sometimes get a good effect just by removing the scale with a wire wheel and leaving the forging marks. Use the sander or a sanding block with emery paper to get it as fine as you care to. Heat it to a medium red heat high in the fire with a slow air flow because that will produce less scale. If you want to try to harden it I suggest that you wait until you have removed all of your forging marks but still have fairly course filing/grinding marks. RR spikes are fairly low carbon and won't harden much if you don't use something like super quench (look it up). ![]() ![]() It would be real easy to slip and sand off a part of yourself that you didn't want to lose. ![]() Worked OK but a little scary with the belt sander. Before I got a belt grinder I would put a belt or orgital sander upside down in my vise. I'd suggest doing the best you can with the grinder and then using progressively finer files and emery paper. Because grinding wheels are curved it is hard to get a good final finish. If that is not the case, you're going to have to use at least a bench grinder. If you did, reheat it to about medium red and let it cool in the air. That is you didn't quench it while it was at red color or higher. I'm assuming that you didn't try to harden (intentionally of unintentionally) your knife. Once it got up to temp (30 minutes maybe), all I had to do was keep hitting it with the air for about 30 seconds or so, hit again. I figure out when things got hot enough you beat on the metal, throw it back in, use the air (mine was a hair dryer), comes up to temp pretty quick, repeat. Once they burned off the tar or whatever it is, they worked well. I can say working with coal was interesting. What do I do now to finish it off? Thanks again for all the help. I have a bastard file I just barely hit it with to see if it scraped it (it did :)).īut now it's just a hideous frame that looks like a knife. I switched from a cross pein to a smaller ball pein to try and hammer out some small areas, but it left the marks. There's lots of indentations where the hammer hit. What do I do now? I took my angle grinder and got the rough stuff off. I finally got all the stuff together and made a rought railroad spike "knife." Much harder than it looks on YouTube. ![]()
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