How Knives Are Made At L.T. Wright Handcraft Knives Part 2

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A day in the L.T. Wright Handcraft Knives shop for a step by step tutorial on how there knives are made

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all right so we're back with Dell team now and we're nearing the end of the process now and lt what's the next step well after the glue up the bolts and stuff will get cut off we'll grab this knife here and what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you how to square up the night put the actual shape on it and then I'll get it in 50 grit and then we'll head back for finishing all right it's going to get a little bit dusky and put my mask on and we'll go through it okay what get ask one well as well so what I just did was take off all the excess we have our machine set up for squaring and this is now square next thing I'm going to do is put a quick round over on the route again we have a machine set up depending as you can see that gives us a little bit of a roundover so now I have a nice consistent round over that I can start the 50 grit process so I'm gonna put my mask back on and I'm going to take this the full rough shape so it will take just a few minutes to do this you

and now the knife is completely roughed in on a 50 grit always is just I use a wheel a lot of people use a flat section or a slack section I taught myself on a wheel years ago and I just always do it and it's just a touch thing and then feel as you go through to make something round with something round sometimes a little bit of work but we get that already so now what I'm going to do is I'm going to change a wheel on one of our small grinder real quick and then I'm going to show you how we shape the underneath sides of these and move right down line at this point just going to put the finger not underneath get that shape the way we want I'm sure you're making it look easy but it is something I'm in it it's relatively simple it is a learner task in the llamas present Footwear and different things but I just want to get this this way you have grip and I'll pull it out and at that point little pretty square and dumb and that's how the underneath of that and the shape will actually start coming from there awesome alright we're here with Scott now we're pretty much at the end of our journey here with this knife and he's just going to put what are you gonna do the final hedging and I'm going to roll this down with a 120 grit that I have on there and remove some of those 50 grit scratches and give it a little bit more shape and then I'm going to roll it down with a 320 grit belt and get rid of those scratches and we're going to go over there and buff it and polish it up real nice and then the final step is going to be while I'm going to get to see that little rough spot yep I do see then go back down to that machine and go fix out a but other than that then we'll put an edge on there often shave paper so you're pretty much last main in the process usually this stable though if I set it between here is we have like hey we got to do 50 knives quickly I'll do a couple grits on here lay it on the table and then Nick will buffett and just like some of the other guys were doing the hopscotching back and forth Nick and I work really good right here he'll buff it put it back putting the other direction of the table now I know I can sharpen okay I'll put it back and he'll I'll put the burr on it and then he can but it sounds a good safer choice got these thing back and forth he's my sharpening protege alright let's see how it's done

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now you step it up and grit how we're going to go to a 320 grit depends on the depends of the knife depends on the material sometimes I'll use a war out 220 sometimes a first-year 320 kind of like a feel fun touch in a field all right that's the craftsman part of explain ask our artisan part of it a little after I have enough coffee more brain goes on autopilot that was a ruse you put on there that's a piece of rubber okay clear okay maybe right yeah exactly you see if I can make a spark for you yeah I did see that action watch is that metal being removed it was that static that's static electricity awesome school yeah seen that little blue sparks they know what that was so if you forget about it and you're damming and then hahaha oh yeah polishing up now good enough to start buffing it and then we'll look for scratches sometimes on this snakeskin stuff it's harder to see the scratches so we'll buff it a little and that will make the scratches come out if there are I mean I don't know let's get knocked on a shelf as it is if by by I that's awesome looking it would be well sometimes when we be blessed we'll just do the 120 grit and then go to the vblast cabinet that gives a great finish cool it so be blast this one but we're going to tuner up there in the buffing wheel all right this is one of the more dangerous machines in the shop just because this is high speed and just like when you're working with an angle grinder if you get past a certain point on here it will want to grab the knife and before you can say oh it's going to throw it onto the floor

mmm or your foot or something out of all the machines that I've seen today I wouldn't think that would be the most dangerous one it's run a few knobs on the floor all right you can see a little bit there some scratches there a little bit right there okay and the buffing compound usually lays down on the scratches you need can see this is looking bad thing almost you can almost see yourself and what's been good yeah if it's really good so sometimes these spots that are flat you think oh it's just flat there's no contour that'll be easy to sand what we're sending on a belt that is concave and it's moving around and sometimes the flat spots are ordered to get them curves hmm I'm also going to hold this knife like this it's my strategy doing this vertical here if I hold it this way if I hold it this way the different angles sometimes I can gradually drawing

yep hold on okay should be ready to buff again no if you get here but I turned the Machine up a little faster yeah I wasn't pressing as hard to try and keep this paper flat and I was just kind of trying to skim the surface and get rid of those scratches because if I were then you concave it I would have been catching the edges but not this little flat part if they're really bad I can come down here on this rubber wheel and touch it just a little bit but if you're pushing you would be hitting the flat surfaces see that I do this fine first all this is to get going to do it faster anyway like when we got 40 or 50 miles to do muscle memory is huge whenever I come over the buffer even if I've already thought this a little bit I do

tail to the bottom like an X and then I'll start on the sides again it's an autopilot thing it just makes them dang it shine it now you

okay Wow let me scratch downtown there no scratches in the brass or the steel little imperfection err that's the mic art of a beautiful but better than it was much smoother obviously yeah that's beautiful so and I ran the spine just a little bit on the 320 grit once we sharpen and I'm going to get out of this machine and do a little bit more on the spine and that's for that's for hitting a firesteel sorry yeah put that real gressive 90 degree with that bill over there I skate treatment there nice it'll probably hit a steel right now with just a 320 grit but it'll get better when I do the yeah there was some in the case that you could almost use as a secondary cutting edge oh yeah if you're a careful warrior you grab you can definitely drag this thing down a branch and make your tinder bundle

yeah just from that bond yeah that'll work good for that awesome so this is not real sharp right now but do we got to put an edge on around get oh sure alright so we've changed the belts now we're down to the red 120 grit Reds for cutting on steel and we're going to sharpen this up and we sharpen everything here at the shop on a slack even even as slight as that is it's going to make a convex edge and we attack into the blade we've done sharpen like this I've seen guys do that this is just the way I was taught so that's the way we do it so we got the machine slowed way down might be hard for you to see but if you could film down the edge of this and you'll see that there's part of this edge is white and part of it is not can you see that on you no I can see it might not with my eye okay but I don't know if it's coming out on camera but I can see exactly later all right now okay so that's the burr forming so when we we got this flat hunk of metal and now I'm slowly coming around like this but I want this on a hole edge from plunge line to tip I want that burr and when I see it forming I can see it forming on the belt I can feel it then I want to take the bar go this way once I can once I can move that Barret will left side or right side I know I got it time to change to the next step in the process so this forming of the white there and not there tells me I'm getting close this is a really good setup actually because once I come off the belt I can hold this thing in the shadow here and it's plain as day that yep there's the bird nope that's miss yep there's the bird I can see it yeah so a few more passes all right now can you see the white line the whole way just getting good exactly right yeah I can you can see it with your eye I can see with my eye it looks like it flashes in the camera lunge line to tip we have a burr now I switch back and forth already I've moved the bar left to right I know that I got it on the run now so you've clipped the burr after that all right yeah now I'm going to take that burr and I'm going to polish it straight not only am I going to remove the burr gonna polish that very edge on this felt wheel and then we'll hit up here just a wee little bit and then we'll hit the edge on the other machine there's about three or four different hardnesses of felt wheel by the way out there on the market this is the one they just call hard there's another one even harder than that don't see the need for this works really good so notice we're going to fall heads down I know things are working good because it just removed half of the compound on that half of the night and he usually ends up getting this little V section so from on that buffing I've probably taken my tip and this is not very sharp right here which I'll - no that's the last step

doing that but as far as the blade goes oh yeah sharp now it's on what what are these A to D - I asked razor sure not much noise there and just from experience I can see that the paper hard to know if you'd be able to film that but right at the very edge of that paper where I've just cut through it is not curling up

it's just slicing through so I know that that's that's pretty good awesome so sharp

the last step here would just be to hit the spot

so now you're readjusting the spider you're putting the sign on it I'm sharpening the sponsons can Hitler firesteel jerking it find out the needle and you just put that right to the jimping so now yeah yeah just cut that last one but yeah right to the jimping so now this will throw sparks either side and this part here is like a little needle now if you take your finger one feel like that before your finger would just slide right off now it's catching it will catch awesome I was sharpening one day it at the other place and had this really sharp and the manege taught me everything LT says that's good but this won't open a bag potato chips we got to run the tip again okay so once you do that it's it's wicked this is very needle-like nice that's fantastic and being d2 this will hold a really good edge for quite a while but also since it's convex on that slack belt if you have a leather strop of compound on it it'll come right back for resharpening in the field don't forget to take your sharpie marker with you and put the little lines on there little paint on air if you especially if you've never worked a strop before and go back and forth a couple times and look for that sharpie mark did you remove the whole thing did you get it from plunge line to tip a true little tattletale that sharpie marker yeah that's how I teach my students how to sharpen all three we take it fast yeah we take a sharpie marker out hmm and we've marked you with the complete edge from start to finish and then what are you removing well if you're putting the false edge on or you know something like that so yeah that is a good idea we will just restarting of using the sharpie marker on whatever you use at home the machines now that you know about the burr and the polish and using a sharpie marker now you should be able to sharpen on anything almost anything so if you're in a pinch and you have to use a coffee cup and a legal pad you got your sharpie like I don't know if this is working too good you can tell right away with a sharpie marker whether you got it or not so and the old some of the other tests the good tip that you know you got a freebie today guys you know sharpie marker let you know how you're sharpening your knife yeah for sure good tattletale so that's it she's polished off last thing to do is clean it Eve does at my front run the polishing compound on the lanyard tube should put some acetone on it make sure all the nooks and crannies are good and hit with a coating of balanced on off it goes to a happy customer all right well thanks sure alright guys well there you go you just seen an LT right hand craft knife from start to finish pretty much a different snaps couple different knives that were in there but we just want to show you each and every step that goes through and making one of these knives LT you anything there yeah thank you guys for coming down today it's always nice to show people how something is done virtually everything is done by hand as you can see and I want to invite you back over this upcoming summer you come down we'll take one start to finish from a piece of steel and send you home with it yes I make you get all the work yeah now I got to do all the work as well look bad yeah that sounds like a good idea come down here and actually you know from what I seen step by step by step machine machine than me actually do it that sounds like a really fun idea it sounds cool you got a social media sites would let them know about yeah you can check us out at Elte right knives calm or LT right not handcrafted knives the facebook page so we have both Anna Twitter account so we're on all the social medias and the website as well you guys got that YouTube or anything yeah we do that with YouTube channel and I think it's okay sometimes you can access it from our website okay alright there you guys go this is doing William Mars mass outdoors I hope you enjoyed this video and if you did I appreciate it click Subscribe down below liking this video really helps me and my channel out I appreciate all your views comments and sport hopefully we'll see you down the woods