Forging QUILLION DAGGERS from rusty old railroad spikes

Hello and welcome to the forge! In today's episode, I forge a Quillion Dagger from a railroad spike. This is a different twist on a RR spike knife that anyone with a forge can do with a little practice. thank you for watching and if you would HIT that SUBSCRIBE button as well as ring the NOTIFICATION bell to be informed when our newest videos post.

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[stoneinthefield]

Best knife to make with spikes I’ve seen. Great job.

[leatonbridge]

Well done thank you for sharing your dagger with I have a heap of spikes to play with

[SomeOrdinaryPlumber]

This makes a wonderful beginners project, it was my first project that I had completed on my forge

[saintlynnie]

my husband has made something similar to this, but he flattens out the twist for the blade and he says it makes a really bad ass design

[Athooper]

Thanks for sharing this!! I love this project and cannot wait to try making one. I bet you are right that they would sell well. I’m going to need to show my son and see if we can get it done. Keep up the awesome work! 😊

[chrisbeene]

Would love to see more railroad spike projects and thank you for the videos you do amazing job

[alexjemetz]

This a really enticing project that I aim to do for my first attempt using my home built forge. Great video and thanks for the creative design. Can you tell me the weight of your anvil and where you bought it? And
one more question, how much do you sell the daggers for? Thank you!

[carterlucyk]

A bit late responding to some great educational videos. I am retired and just starting after buying a retirees equipment, coal forge setup. I have almost a 100 hammers, tongs and things, that I have no knowledge of and see how you utilize a few. Your video has raised my interest even more and hope I can get to the stage of getting forge lit and to start the forging process. The only thing I missed to the hammering process was the hammer face. Whether its round flat or a special shape. I figured the flatter hammer makes metal flat, but the other shapes are of interest. Or do you just use the horn to stretch metal out. It would be nice to see the hammer face that you use for a few of the different steps. Thanks again for the great videos and really appreciate you taking the time to help steer us in the right direction. I might be 50 years late starting, but your videos will help bridge the gap. From Timmins ON, Thank you!!

[ItzStooby]

Proper nice work mate! The push dagger you showed at the end is also really good, given me an idea to try to make a double headed short handle tomahawk outa one!

[dougtroutman]

I'm going to try that just got some spikes, just getting started doing knives looks good. Thanks for the video.

[whiskey]

I'm new at forging... Do the spikes harden well? I saw other videos that quench in water only. What are your thoughts on this? Thanks.

[jaymuzquiz]

I tried doing that hot cut guard today after watching you do it. And I must say it came out looking like some orc dagger from Lord of Rings all mangled and chewed up before it one side just broke off. ( I can still consider it a win right? Because technically I did make a guard that way and held for like an hour before I mishandled it. )

[R_Arizona]

Cool video. I wish thought that I can watch a video like this, but they don't have a power hammer or a press. I'm just a poor extreme novice smith. Still it's a great video.

[joesmith-tz]

i would not have believed that if i had not seen it. would not have thought there was enuf iron there. Back in the day i would sometimes slit the spike and forge weld tool steel in, both to get more blade length and to have a hard steel at the edge. if you were better than me, you could jacket it with hard like the Japanese swordsmiths do.

[GordoBondiola]

I wouldve left the pommel facing the edges though its an amazing dagger!

[gregpassmore]

In the future, Im going to try this, very cool

[Mountainmonths]

cool i was wondering how to do a guard like this. thanks!

[mattthescreamer]

Loved this video man, thanks for posting this

[linuslingenfelter]

What sort of chisel did you use to make the quillions? I'm new and I'm not sure where to get one.

[jaymuzquiz]

Excuse me Mr Mountain Forge Sr. As we all know for every good Smith like yourself there are 100 bad ones like me, so basically we bad smiths are in demand because more are needed. Whereas only one of you are needed for every 100 of us. So my question is I forge custom bed frames with an offset geometry to give it that rustic rough look, but I'm having a difficult time selling these hand forged bed frames. How do you see the hand forge bed frame market this coming fiscal quarter?