Making a Forged Machete // Blacksmithing | I Like To Make Stuff

Summary by Krater

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.