Making a Forged Machete // Blacksmithing | I Like To Make Stuff
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The creator demonstrates the process of making a custom machete from high-carbon steel, covering forging, heat treating, quenching, and making a wooden handle.
From the video
Answers: How do you make a machete?
- knife making
- blacksmithing
- forging a machete
- heat treating steel
- making a knife handle
What it concludes
- Starting with a 3/16 inch high-carbon steel bar allows you to forge a machete with a thick, strong spine while thinning out the cutting edge.
- Normalizing the steel three times aligns the grain and makes it hard again.
- Quenching the heated steel in oil makes it super hard but very brittle.
- Tempering the hardened steel at 400 degrees for two tempering cycles reduces brittleness and prepares it for sharpening.
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