How to Forge a [San Mai] Chef’s Knife- Your Edge

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In this Special Edition of Your Edge Ilya Alekseyev shows you how to for a Japanese kitchen knife using the San Mai construction. He goes into great detail in every step of the process. The body of the knife is made from wrought iron and the edge is W-2 on the first one and damascus on the the other knives. You see Ilya doesn't just make one demo knife. Instead he makes 3 knives to show different options that you can do with this style of forging. Ilya uses all hand tools to forge these knives and a charcoal forge. The reason behind this is to show you that you can do it without fancy power hammers and expensive forges. All you need is fire and a hammer and San Mai can be done.
Many Techniques are covered in this Your Edge video. Ilya Alekseyev is a Forged in Fire champion and brings years of experience to you for free. Think of this as a online master class totally free of charge. He shows how to forge the wrought iron and hot cut it for the insert. Then shows how to forge weld the pieces together using a striker and explaining how you could forge weld it yourself. He then shows how to forge out the blade properly and how to use hand files and scrapers to forge the geometry after forging. Ilya then heat treats the knife using a then coat of clay and quenching into water. All of the blade finishing is shown and explained. Everything from making the wood handles to etching and polishing. Sit back and learn how to make a San Mai kitchen knife the Slavic way !
After the forging is complete sit back and enjoy a slavic cooking show with Ilya as he shows you how to put the knife to use while preparing on of his favorite dishes, grilled mackerel. Learn how to make a knife and how to cook fish on a grill all in one video !

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