Forging a Hunter with Stainless San Mai Damascus

In this video I'm forging a hunter (Thresher model) using stainless san mai damascus. For this stainless san mai, the cladding is 416 stainless with a 1080 core. The handle is red box elder burl with black G10 liners.

[TyrellKnifeworks]

What do you think about stainless san mai? Any other damascus patterns you'd like to see on the channel?

[FarawayForge]

You're an artist and a half my man, you deserve more subs; keep up the killer work!

[BrighamKindell]

The carpenter square trick just changed my life. Thank you Denis! I cant believe I never thought of that

[guillermoalfaro]

Hey 👋 there Tyrell how are you my friend is good to me the way the knife 🔪 looks. It's amazing how it looks I am in love with it nice job buddy blessings 🙌 🙏

[puiaralte]

My favourite knife maker Tyrell knifeworks, I really like your work, I watch all your videos

[vladimirkovacevic]

awesome knife i love san mai and that red handle

[anthonystrunk]

Handle looks very comfortable.. great job on the San mai too!

[dapeters]

Damn Tyrrell, that's a masterful example of the San Mai technique. I'm only 5 minutes in, but it's awesome so far. I'm sure I'll comment again at the end.

[blauertknives]

I think I like the stainless San mai more than most Damascus patterns. I’m really going to have to learn to make some.

[cultivationplus]

Ive never needed to coffee etch for 12hrs in my life. Usually i can get a mono steel black black in a matter of 5-10 minutes with a coffee etch. For my san mai and damascus blades ill go into ferric for 15-30 seconds, sand off with 1500 grit and repeat 3-5 times. Once im happy with it, i go into coffee. I mix 1 jar of coffee for every 1L of water. I boil water pour in the instant coffee and while the water is still relatively hot, ill put the blade in. It etches far better and far quicker if the water is still hot. Been debating making a video on my process cause ive never had the need for a ridiculous amount of time. Literally only takes a few minutes.

[Bar_D_Forge]

I noted you said that you had problems drilling the stainless... I learned a trick from a boat builder a while back; use cold water for cutting fluid... Works like a dream...

[ginojeffries]

Had to comment on that. I welded for years and my favorite was tig

[LozHarrop]

Gorgeous piece of san mai bud, having watched the vid im thinking the pitting is maybe carbon migration coming through the stainless which is what the ferric is working on. All the same the outcome is so nice. Ive got to get me a damn tig welder now for sure. Cheers.

[darrell]

In Slovenia I made a stainless San mai japanese marking knife. We called the stainless stuff " inox " after etching in ferric, the stainless or inox showed layering... It was a piece of flat stock. Have you ever heard of something like that before? Nice work again man
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Oh my holy Jesus that is sharp. Holy crap

[rifincurly]

just a dream to have such a beautiful knife what power is the son of a peasant labor

[es]

Awesome job i would love one of your copper ones

[albalmaceda]

Are you too good for the reality show “forged in fire” ? I’d like to see you beat these guys like a drum!

[HeavyForge]

That came out great!!! I did another stainless blade and hoping to get a migration pattern like that. I used 304 again but I ordered some 416 to try.🔥⚒💪🏻

[danwerkman]

Great work... About her win. Very cool indeed 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[david-kib]

Very nice knife l have learned a lot from your videos 100k