This video shows the making of a small machete using nothing but hand tools. The video will appeal to both beginning knife makers who don’t have large, highly equipped shops as well as to survival/prepper folks who want to be able to make high quality cutting tools under challenging, rustic circumstances.
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Made a karambit with a hacksaw and files, an old hand crank drill for the finger hole.
put the bevel on it with some files, and sharpened it with a wetstone.
making the handle: Did the same thing with an old Indiana joans machete i found in a barn fire. hand carved and all that stuff XD
Walter I'm not big on your music but you are a true master. Thank you for sharing your well of knowledge.
dude you said that it was going to look ugly and that may look rustic but it is not ugly
So propane torch is also a hand tool ?
THAT MACHETE LOOKS SOO FUUCKING COOL
That blow torch is a power tool
@ Around 15:30 : He heat-treated the machete in the oven for one hour. I don't know how heavy the machete was, but it's supposed to be one hour for every pound of metal; not just one hour no matter what.
nice teaching video – sweet machete
nice job.
ok me encanta
The trick is to heat the metal before you drill it!
Drill the holes in the wood, then drill them 2 sizes bigger, to allow the epoxy to work better.
to prepare for epoxy rough up the surface with a file and gouge the surface with the corners of the file and wipe with acetone and then epoxy it!.
This was a good video!
First off… Sir, thanks for gutting that out and showing how it can be done with no power tools or forge and using backwoods (not wards) enginuity. A lot of people get discouraged at the thought of even trying to make something by hand, having never seen the process come to fruition.
I've read the comments below by fellow "smiths" and others and, frankly, am disapointed and perturbed by so much ignorance and arrogance.
To the "laughing guy," below, last time I looked a torch/stove/forge was not a "power tool" (unless you call a hand-cranked blower "powered"). I see no gears and motors, no electrics hanging off of his torch, nothing moving but the gas through the tube. Too many people can't wait to say "gotcha," even when there is no gotcha, instead of "thank you" or offering some respect.
Finally, as a blacksmith myself, not every blade or tool (esp. a machete) is forged within an inch of its life "proving what a studly, accomplished smith I am." A guild member of ours makes a military contracted, very expensive, battle tomahawk and 95% of it is made by stock removal.
Stock removal by means of filing and/or grinding (I also have a hand powered grinder, for the smart-ass in waiting) your brains out, depending on the intricacy or complexity of item or desired finish, is a common part of craftsmanship, period.
I don't know one smith in our guild that doesn't have a drawer full of hand files, rasps, air or electric powered rotory files, die grinders etc., even some job specific and hand-made by them, at times…
So "nuts" to you who would say filing is not for "real smiths" but neophytes and fools.
Apologies for the rant and thanks again, sir, for a great series of videos that are entertaining, to the point and don't drag on with a bunch of heming and hawing, drawing breath through empty minutes of air and finally spitting out the point. Please make more.
Yo he said no electricity but he used an oven!😂
PERFECT
how long did this take
Man, I'd give almost anything to have a cool workshop and not a volcano like here in Texas.
you clearly used a sander on the blade bevel but we forgive you