How to Forge Spike Knife from a Railroad Spike?
Railroad spike is wildly used in railway, and it is one of the most important parts to fasten the rail and the sleeper. In addition, it can also be made as railroad spike artwork such as rail spike knife, chisel, bottle opener and other interesting figures, they can bring a lot of joy to people’s life.
Now I will tell you how to make the rail spike knife from railroad spike, this method is interesting and safe.
1. Prepare Your Material
2. Twist the Handle for Beauty
3. Take Out the Tip
The next step you need to take out of the spike for forging the blade, before the forging, keep the four sides equal and in uniform is necessary.
Then strike the sides of to the blade to start your bevel the blade will start to curve towards the back if you want to straighten it simply work on the blades back to reverse this.
4. Shaping The Blade
First choose the part you want it to be the blade edge up, keep it flat and hammer the tip on an angle, making it a flat back. Then strike the sides of the blade and make the blade flat and smooth. Turn to forge the back so that it is flat and straight as the opposite side.
5. Bend the Handle
6. Grinding the Railroad Spike Knife
This is an individual angle grinder, you can use your own grinder to clean off all the scales and grind away the things you don’t want, making your spike knife more and more perfect.
Ok now we're get close to the final product now what I do at this point is get my blade edge sharp but I don't polish anything because we need to heat treat the blade and temper it by heating it in the forge to a red/orange heat and quenching it in either water or oil after that toss it in the oven at around 350-400 for about an hour and let it cool.
7. Heat Treating the Blade of Spike Knife
After the grinding of spike knife, we need to heat treat the blade. Heat the blade into a red/orange heat and quenching it in either water or oil after that toss it in the oven at around 350-400 for about an hour and let it cool.
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