Welding Rod Damascus Knife, Forging Electrodes Blacksmithing and Knifemaking Project

Forge welding a knife with 7018E welding electrodes. These welding rods are commonly used for mild steel arc welding applications. Today I'm going to incorporate a bunch of these rods into a super cool knife. The edge steel is 80CrV2 high carbon steel.

#welding #damascus #forging

[leemitchell]

As a retired welder/steamfitter I always wondered about the stubs in my stub bucket. Tig wire has a coating of copper on all the carbon rods up to chrome rod and stainless rods. Stubs in a canister of 6010-5p+ and 7018 would give a nice pattern without the powder I'd think because 7018 is lighter in color and more malleable and your 5p+ is darker. Plus stubs are just going in the scrap barrel so why not.

[kingscorpion]

I can honestly say: I have seen a lot of bladesmith videos, starting with Forged In Fire, and others, and I was a welder when I served in the Navy, but not once did I ever think that welding rods could be forged into a blade! that's one of the reasons I love watching these videos; the creativity and artistry that goes into bladesmithing!

[marksindustries]

Finally, someones videos who are simple, imformative, and enjoyable. No ad derailing is so appreciated

[breakawaybooks]

3:50 the welded billet is literally loose inside of the cannister! That white paint never ceases to amaze me.

[selador]

Awesome! Next up... USE the rods. Build up a huge pile of weld. Then use that pile of weld, as your starting block...

[donnelhuddleston]

Learn something new everyday, I didn't even know what kind of metal welding rods were made from.

[fpscoco]

World needs more man like you. God bless you. Keep up the good work!

[WonderboyWDE]

I’m so glad you actually forged the tip, not cut the tip in like all these other YouTube crap blademakers. They don’t know the “why” you should forge not cut on the tips and the entire blade and tang. They don’t realize they are putting stress risers in the grain. Bunch of ignorant copycats or wannabe’s is all they are. A forged tip and tang will ALWAYS be stronger than any cut in.

[jeffreywhitmoyer]

In many cases, the core in 7018 is a low carbon iron rather than mild steel. I believe Carbon in a 7018 deposit is on the order of 0.07% max. Also, in addition to the deoxidizers in the coating the manganese content is picked up from the coating. Most stick rods get the alloy content from the coating. Basically, the electrode really only provided bulk to the mix and dilution of the 1084. E70S-6 tig rod would contribute a little more Carbon and 1+% manganese to the alloy. This would slightly improve hardenability to the body of the blade and a little extra toughness. E70S rod is available without copper coating. INE and Midalloy should have it available. Working from memory on this since I retired a few years ago, but confident in being generally correct.

[_Merica_USA]

I have watched a lot of forging videos and this one is by far the most detailed, great job 👍

[tokus]

A beautiful knife without a beautiful sheath is just an addition to the scrapmetals in your shop.

[jerrysanchez]

Honestly this has a pretty good example of why edge geometry matters.better than most anyway

[robertr]

The pattern in the steel looks almost like a cross between a Cable Damascus and a rain drop pattern. Looks good.

[shepardsforgeh]

Love the olive drab handle that screams jungle blade!

[eddybarker]

Super nice pattern on this one! I really appreciate you providing tips as you go such as how to forge the San mai core around the tip and how to fix the edge geometry when it didn’t pass the first test before thinking the heat treat failed. Great video!

[ericjenkin]

Ok I'll have to come back but the drill trick at beginning is cool I can already see it coming in handy, thanks

[AndyFromBeaverton]

The laddering really did add to creating a nice pattern.

[jml]

Im a welder, when I saw this I was definitely intrigued. Great work man.

[meninoandrade]

I like the pattern it's very clear and too forging. good kitchen knife tnx

[jefferythomas]

Coat hangers and welding rod are one and the same material. That's a dirty little secret that could have saved you a lot of time and money.