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The Cloggers Knife | Old Tool Reborn

May 31, 2021
From electric arc welding the internal stresses of the

knife

accumulate but most of them can be eliminated by normalizing the workpiece in the forge so before hardening I straightened the blade once more and only then proceeded to its final hardening I decided heating the edge of the blade and then immersing it in water so that it was a zone hardening procedure followed by self-normalization. The plan was successful. I briefly placed the

knife

in the forge and since the spine of the blade is thicker and more solid than its edge, it did not have time to really heat up and when immersed in water, therefore, only the edge becomes hard.
the cloggers knife old tool reborn
I should have stopped right there, although the edge of the blades was slightly curved at that point. That's when I made a fatal mistake, as you know, "the best is the enemy of the good" and "a bad head gives no rest to the legs" as if to test these popular sayings I decided to straighten the blade and then temper it again using the traditional method of differential hardening, this time I cannot rationally explain my actions it is completely incomprehensible what I was counting on literally last year I ruined the knife blade in exactly the same way instead of relying on the self-normalization phase I stubbornly continued to quench the edge in water as Lewis Carroll wrote in Alice's Adventure in Wonderland:   "If you drink too much from a bottle marked 'poison', sooner or later you will surely not like it..." it is obvious that if the side of a steel plate heated is cooled for a long time, internal stresses will increase and the cooled side will gain hardness and brittleness, causing it to crack with a very unpleasant sound of a complete fiasco.
the cloggers knife old tool reborn

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Under other circumstances, I would have simply put the cracked piece aside with a smile, picked up the second half of the crossbow, and repeated all the steps. Just with due diligence this time, however, it was late at night and tomorrow morning I was leaving for my log cabin camp for a month where I planned to use this

tool

in my new projects and after negotiating with my internal quality control I decided to make a temporary solution... temporary... they say there is nothing more permanent than temporary anyway, so I beveled the edges of the cracks using an angle grinder and simply soldered the crack, obviously the hardness of the knife suffered in the weld area, but I decided not to re-harden the blade because, firstly, there was simply no time and, secondly, most of the edge of the knife is still very hard, while the tension inner leaf has been inadvertently removed by my radically barbaric method.
the cloggers knife old tool reborn
All things considered, the end result is not that. bad, the knife is now safe and will not explode during operation and will remain sharp, so what remains is to polish the welds, sharpen the blade and shape the geometry of the handle. I shaped the tang of the handle to accept a traditional wood handle. The tang should be rectangular, slightly tapered and bent upwards; In this case, with each cut, the operator will press the wooden handle harder on the tenon so that the wooden handle does not hang or fall even without additional fixation. The first year I used the clog knife without a wooden handle, which was a mistake, the maple handle significantly improved the maximum exercisable force and control of the blades.
the cloggers knife old tool reborn
Maple is the hardest wood I could find around here even though while transporting the

tool

I hit the wooden handle of the tenon, it didn't. cracked or fell off during use again I didn't use any glue I simply drilled a hole in a block of wood and hammered the maple handle into the tenon with a simple and reliable wooden mallet, as you understand, a clog knife is always accompanied from a specialized mounting block equipped with a cantilever bracket, I installed such brackets on my razor horse on my upside down work table and on the sawhorses that are at home later, I even made a specialized mounting bracket for the knife from the

cloggers

at the beginning of the video I said that I planned to choose one of the two types of cantilever mounting methods based on the results of the field tests, although the field tests lasted for two years.
I haven't made my choice yet. Both mounting methods are good and don't even fit. the other's way two years ago I didn't have time to build this specialized clog knife holder and only managed to finish it last summer. I haven't come up with the name yet and I'm waiting for your suggestions, maybe you can find an original name because I'm desperate. A few words about the non-obvious value of the clog knife. While shaping a workpiece with such a tool, I noticed that I never get tired. A large amount of material can be removed using mainly body weight and a lever principle.
In addition, a change of activity can be relaxing because when you work using fundamentally different tools, you load different muscle groups, therefore you increase your productivity and you almost never get tired, for example, I could have shaped this work. piece using my primitive post lathe, but then I would have spent more time and effort. I think any job, including physical work, should be enjoyable, so making this clog knife helped me take a break from my office. The work routine gave me aesthetic pleasure and fulfilled me. The gaps in my blacksmithing skills in any case, based on the experience of using this knife for different projects, I can say that I do not regret the time invested in making it.
When I gain more experience in blacksmithing, I will make another clog knife, this time on a more professional level at home Friends, I'm glad you watched this video to the end, which means you found it interesting, maybe even useful, and the many hours spent recording and editing it were not in vain, you may have noticed that I do not publish. my videos frequently and even if you are subscribed to the channel, most likely you will not receive notifications about a new video, but you can try setting a bell for all notifications, they say it helps, thank you for sharing my videos with your friends and leaving Good people watch good videos.
This is Max Egorov St. Petersburg Russia P.S. Below I left a link to my DIY projects playlist, as well as playlists about building my log cabin, bushcraft projects, kayak making, and outdoor cooking. Hope to see you again at Advoko AGO...

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