If the piece of steel is small enough, you can just use a MAPP gas torch. If you're making, for example, small chisels from concrete nails, a MAPP torch is easier to use and obtain. Your heat treatment process is shoddy mate. Not the heating of the blade, and it only works with quick hardening steels like , is slow hardening and it doesn't work. Tempering is done at much lower temps. If you want cheap, old leaf springs are steel typically and coil springs are Research your steel alloys and experiment and see what you like to work with.
Research is important, but good sources are also important, and having all the info. The BladesmithForum is a great place to start.
Reply 6 years ago on Introduction. And what if the machete is accidentally swung hard, edge down onto a peice of concrete? An edge that has been hardned in icy salt water and not tempered at all to bring its hardness down to a reasonable toughness will undoutably chip very violently when hit hard on the wrong angle by something like a stone or a nail, peice of fence etc which is a high possibility if you use machetes in a way that it is likely to happen.
So what is an ideal temper for a machete? I hear the standard blacksmith temper for machetes is one where the edge is made to be partially tough, which means it needs to be sharpned frequently, the most bolo of machetes before and after each session with a simple file, apparently like this: the handle pushed into your stomach and the point of the blade into some tree, sharpening with a standard metal file.
But a harder edge would use a stone, perhaps this is a more ideal temper, one where you need to use a stone and its edge will last like but not chip like a good machete should. When using a machete, you want to use your whole arm to swing the machete, with a snap of the wrist delivered just before contact. For more power introduce a bit of waist motion. This technique is useful for cutting down small trees and large branches. On the job I often use a machete to cut up palm fronds and branches.
That wrist motion does help a lot. Finally and you probably already know this , never use a dull machete! With a sharp machete and proper technique you'll get the job done faster and use less energy. Which means you'll be less tired and less likely to get into an accident involving a body part. Reply 9 years ago on Introduction.
Good thinking - but, having worked in safety for a large multinational manufacturing firm, I must point out that statistics show that wearing gloves while using a sanders or polishers do reduce injuries.
Standard industrial practise is to insist on gloves at all times even when using this type of equipment. Nice Instructible.
As a 14 y'old Canadian, I made a machete out of an old 2 man cross cutting saw. Excellent steel, with spine thinner than cutting edge.
In Volume One: Introductory Concepts, you will learn the basics of range, attack angles and how to target your attackers weak spots. Volume Two: Fundamental Techniques teaches hard-hitting attack and defense drills, feints and deceptions, hand trapping and more. In Volume Three: Real-World Applications, he shows you defenses and counterattacks against many common street assaults, including dealing with multiple opponents.
Marine Corps Physical Training and Hand-to-Hand Combat Course This USMC combat conditioning course, as taught at the Officer Candidate School, includes not only hard-core physical training but instruction in unarmed combat; knives, clubs and silent weapons; pistol disarming; and more.
He then analyzes these forms, identifying their key structures and body mechanics to form the basis of Modern Pentjak Silat Serak. Building on the functional, universal lines developed in his Mook Jong Slam Set program, Simonets Argument of Movement takes individual training to the next step: a two-person, full-contact drill that is easy to learn, combines the best elements of the most effective combat arts currently known and has application for any fighting situation you may find yourself facing.
Learn how to control the fight from the first instant, disrupting your opponents rhythm and keeping him so off-balance that hell have no time to react. But when youre faced with a lethal force situation and the only weapon you have is your trusty folder, you have to know how to use it. In this no-holdsbarred video production from Paladin Press, master martial scientist Joseph Simonet has taken his street-proven Argument of Movement form and made it even more effective by adding the blade.
Simonets combination of in-your-face intensity and grim pragmatism shows you the true seriousness of fighting with a knife and how, if you want to survive, you cant just fight you must act with skilled, lethal determination.
This isnt an adaptation of previous material, but an evolution of combative technique that combines rhythm disruption, use of both edge and point, striking with the handle, vicious takedowns and pain compliance into a knife combat system suitable for any encounter requiring the use of deadly force with a blade. Dont think that just owning a knife makes you competent in its combat use: you have to train, and train properly.
This video teaches you how to do that. In this fast-paced video production, Joseph Simonet teaches you the 10 flow drills every competent fighter needs to know to keep his skills at the highest level possible.
He starts with the foundational drill of hubud, showing the most combat-effective way to perform it and why so many martial artists get it wrong. From there he teaches you how to burn other key drills into your muscle memory and extract their true combative applications. Simonet also shows how each drill can be linked to any other, simulating the chaos of a real fight. Joseph Simonet is one of the most accomplished practitioners of the Indonesian art of Pentjak Silat in the United States.
He is a certified instructor in five different martial arts systems and founder of Modern Pentjak Silat. Addy Hernandez holds black belts in kenpo karate, Escrido, and Doce Pares escrima and is a certified Yang-style taijiquan instructor. Visit their website at kifightingconcepts. In it, he focuses on teaching a streamlined version of the Slam Set, adding a stick rather than just going empty-handed.
Taking best advantage of this novel approach to wooden dummy training, Simonet shows you how you can train full speed and full force on a partner that wont complain, get injured or quit. This isnt the fancy stick-dancing you may have seen in other instructional videos: its a hard-core, street-ready fighting system that teaches crippling strikes with both the business end and the handle end; close-range attacks that can lead to applying chokes, locks and takedowns; two-handed stick hits to your opponents most vital areas; and more.
The Club Set is all about finishing your opponent using the simplest of weapons in the easiest, most effective way. Now, he has taken his best-selling Mook Jong Slam Set material and adapted it to create a functional knife fighting program suitable for any type of combat involving edged weapons.
Wooden dummy training allows you to perform techniques full force and at full speed, simulating a real fight in the way practicing with a live partner cant without inflicting serious injury. Using that as a guiding principle, Simonet prepares you for a real knife fight by teaching a short form on the dummy that burns in simultaneous block and attack, moving through your opponent to disrupt his base, lightning-fast slashing attacks, initial stunning strikes to set up a fight-stopping cut and much more.
Every movement in this form is designed to damage or cripple your attacker, ending the fight once and for all. The Art and Science of Mook Jong: Slam Set Evolutions builds on that foundation of technique, taking your fighting skills to the next level and beyond.
New skills Simonet teaches in this Paladin Press video production include a series of countergrappling techniques designed to demolish a seasoned groundfighter; takedown defenses that will not only stun your opponent, but also set him up for a devastating throw; stand-up defenses against even the strongest punches and kicks; and an improved putar kepala throw guaranteed to both disorient and destroy an attacker.
To be a true martial artist, a true warrior, you need to refine your fighting skills to the highest level: this evolution of the Slam Set form can put you on the path to combat excellence. All the drills are demonstrated solo on the mook jong wooden dummy , with a training partner and finally in full-speed, full-contact sparring scenarios. Christensen This book isnt about sport fighting, flashy moves or how to become a better person through a martial art.
It presents highly efficient, legally defensible grappling techniques designed to control and restrain through the application of pain to the joints of the body. Its purpose is to provide todays modern warrior the selfdefense-oriented martial artist, combat soldier or law enforcement officer with easy-to-apply techniques that first restrain and then, if taken to their maximum potential, inflict severe physical injury, including torn ligaments and tendons, broken bones and even paralysis or death in extreme cases.
Volume 1 develops the building blocks of stance, footwork, the jab, the cross, straight knee and round kick. Volume 2 applies them to foot jabs, hooks, elbow strikes, uppercuts and clinches. Volume 3 brings it all together with high-speed pad drills, sparring and advanced offensive and defensive combinations.
It also includes a detailed look at the training regimens used by Thai boxers to develop their phenomenal power and stamina. Worden Kelly Wordens Natural Spirit is what Bruce Lees jeet kune do was meant to be: a martial art attitude geared toward combining sound martial arts technique with street-proven tactics to develop ones own personal fighting ability. Christensen Loren Christensen uses his hard-learned lessons from the dojo and the streets to show you how to acquire instantaneous reflexes and explosive speed for punching, kicking, grappling and police defensive tactics.
Learn how to stay a step ahead of your opponents in the dojo or on the streets. One of the worlds foremost authorities and authors on the deadly art of dim-mak and taijiquan, Erle Montaigue was the first Westerner to be granted the degree of Master in dim-mak.
Christensen Learn how to cheat speed by improving your timing and accuracy in both punching and kicking through a series of dirty tricks that will have your opponent wondering just what hit him. Includes drills, exercises and principles that will increase your natural fighting speed and help you develop not only instantaneous reflexes but also explosive quickness and power in all of your strikes.
You will also discover how to summon explosive animal power to master the deadliest strikes in the dim-mak arsenal. Christensen Combine the most up-to-date techniques with classic exercises to increase flexibility and striking power, use resistance exercises to make you quicker and stronger, and use body mechanics to double your power to defend yourself.
Properly applied, even light blows to the bodys vital points can produce extreme pain and seemingly effortless knockouts. This video will teach you how to use this devastating fighting art against the most common street attacks. Award-winning martial artist and self-defense expert Willie The Bam Johnson starts off with the Chin Na warm-up: several grueling, heart-pumping exercises designed to increase grip strength, condition your limbs to withstand incredible punishment and build overall toughness.
From there, he shows you how to exploit the weak parts of the human body, not through the arcane art of pressure points and acupuncture, but using body mechanics and joint manipulation; teaches you high-level sparring drills to prepare you for that one moment where youll have to fight to save your life; instructs you in principles of motion that will teach you how to deal with any grab or strike your opponent might throw; and much more.
Seven-time world champion Willie The Bam Johnson has earned a fifth-degree black belt in karate and a seventh-degree black belt in kung fu. Proclaimed by Black Belt magazine as a Kung Fu Instructor of the Year, he has appeared in numerous movies and television programs and is the founder and spokesman for the Stronger Than Drugs Foundation. Master Hei Long shows which pressure points are the most susceptible to Dragon strikes and which angles to use in applying force.
The human bodys 43 major target areas are explicitly illustrated in this masterful manual. He outlines 20 pressure points that are crippling or even lethal when used as targets of counterstrikes. Master Hei Long is one of the pioneers of adapting martial arts skills for the street. He is the author of nine books for Paladin Press. He cant throw a punch at you with a broken wrist, and his ability to advance is reduced by a busted ankle.
That is the essence of guge gongji: stopping an attacker by breaking his instrument of danger. KILLSHOTS In one of the first videos ever made on the practical applications of ninjutsu, Dave Koss leads you through more than 90 minutes of bonebreaking, muscletearing and fleshripping techniques of Togakure-ryu ninjutsu. Color, 90 min. This three-volume video set by master martial scientist Wim Demeere teaches you all the aspects of Combat Sanshou you need to know to defeat an opponent.
Joint manipulations and stomps that keep an opponent on the ground. Wim Demeere has practiced a variety of martial arts for more than 20 years, studying mainly Chinese systems and full-contact fighting styles such as sanshou and Muay Thai.
Wims competitive years saw him win four national titles and a bronze medal at the World Wushu Championships. He is the former national coach of the Belgian Wushu fighting team and still trains fighters for international competitions.
Reach him at www. In this comprehensive four-disc DVD set, Demeere uses focus mitts, Thai pads, and kicking shields of all sizes to show you how to train your partner for anything from a high-powered MMA match to a street fight.
Using the tricks of the trade that he learned the hard way, hell teach you the body mechanics that will let you avoid injury and prepare your partner to strike and kick his hardest against a reactive and rock-solid target. If you cant stand up to your partners toughest moves, youre only giving him half a workout. Demeere will train you to handle high-line and low-line punches and kicks, ground fighting techniques, shoulder slams, stomps, and rising strikes basically every move that your partner needs to burn into his muscle memory to compete at the highest level.
Theres more to being a good training partner than just standing there and taking a hit thats what dummies are for. Wise up and learn things about pad training that you dont even realize you need. The fighting system called Defense Dans La Rue created specifically to combat these thugs by developing techniques more brutal than the criminals could think of turned the tide against them. This presents a detailed breakdown of the savate street-kicking techniques of this combat system, combining it with conditioning exercises and modern pressure drills tailored to the needs of anyone interested in personal defense.
There are no high kicks and martial-artsy techniques here: this is a fighting system for real-world combat. Cliff Field, M. Veteran martial artist Cliff Field has been a physician for nearly 30 years and has used acupuncture in his practice for nearly that long.
His background in both Eastern and Western medicine, as well as his years studying karate, gives him a unique insight into how strikes to specific points on the human body can cause unexpected even lethal damage. In this book, Dr. Field gives you a deep understanding of human anatomy, physiology, physics, biomechanics, and energetics the flow of chi through the meridians as it pertains to martial arts techniques.
This easy-to-understand examination of karate from both a Western medical perspective and an Eastern energetic perspective demonstrates how to attack the body at its weakest points, both anatomically and energetically. When combined with practical groundfighting tactics, it is virtually unbeatable. In this video, jujitsu expert Cardo Urso reveals the secrets of using vital-point striking to counter and escape common submission holds, locks and chokes.
He then teaches you how to supercharge your grappling skills by integrating kyusho jitsu with combat-proven jujitsu techniques. Haha Lung and Christopher B. Prowant Learn the secrets that will allow you to tell when someone is lying, implant false memories, tailor your attack by using the specific keys to each individuals mind, use verbal patterns and body language to earn your foes utter trust, hypnotize your prey, interrogate using unbeatable psychological methods and much more.
Babin, MD with Sensei Bob Elder Detailed description and lavish illustrations depict the arts of test cutting tameshigiri and swordsmanship battodo , as well as teach modern swordsmen how to ehabilitate a military sword, including straightening, sharpening and polishing the blade and making a new handle and scabbard. Babin, BS, MD All the practical and theoretical information needed to pursue a formal study of the classical Japanese martial art of iaido. Lovret Explore the diverse aspects of Japanese strategy, including inyo, michi, ki and sutemi, and their use on the battlefield and in business.
Flane Walker and Richard C. Bauer; foreword by Erle Montaigue A revealing examination of dim mak from both Eastern and Western medical perspectives. In fact, its nothing like any form youve ever seen. Rather than showing you a dry collection of martial arts moves that have no basis in realworld combat, bestselling author Bob Orlando and Paladin Press have put together a video production that teaches hard-core fighting skills in a format thats easily learned, repeatable and practical.
Combining the authors logical, detailed instruction with multiple camera angles and slow-motion photography, you will learn two of the most fundamental forms of kuntaosilat: Enam Matjan and Elbow Exercise. Both teach the important combat basics of angle, leverage and body positioning to win any fight, including dealing with multiple assailants or fighting from a disadvantaged position.
In addition, Orlando shows strikes with both the open hand and the fist that will literally stun your opponent with pain and leave him open to devastating leg destructions to disrupt his base.
This is the forms set for people who dont like forms and is a must-have for any complete combat library. The video set includes a page workbook on Enam Matjan and Elbow Exercise. Discover how concepts such as adhesion, whiplash, gyroscopic rotation, seating and shearing can be used to maximize the bodys fighting potential and destructive power, as well as how these principles can be applied with devastating effect against common street attacks.
One of the most distinctive aspects of the Indonesian martial arts is their destructive legwork. While a kuntao or silat practitioners hands are busy parrying, trapping and striking, his legs are applying their own tactics to trap, unbalance and destroy an opponents lower body. Bob Orlando spent years analyzing Indonesian legwork and organizing it into a true martial science.
Now he makes this information available to you. VOLUME 1 Critical elements of silat, kuntao and hybrid kuntaosilat legwork Mechanics of trapping and unbalancing an opponent with your legs First two langkahs lowerbody training drills of Orlandos system. VOLUME 3 How to integrate the critical skills of langkahs 14 of his kuntao-silat system into langkahs 5 and 6, the most advanced drills of the art Strategies and tactics of advanced Indonesian legwork How to relentlessly pursue an attacker, constantly trapping, locking and destroying his legs as you pummel him with hand techniques.
VOLUME 2 Mechanics of the third and fourth langkahs of Orlandos system and the subtleties of their silat, kuntao and kuntao-silat variations Secrets of the true fighting function of silats distinctive cross-legged or twist stance How to coordinate your upper-body technique with the traps, grinds, knee-wrenches and off-balancing maneuvers that are the heart of the langkahs.
VOLUME 4 Muscle-burning exercises and drills to develop the strength and stamina necessary to employ kuntao-silat footwork effectively in combat How to integrate strength training with reflex and technique practice through revolutionary training methods How to adapt the traps, grinds and locks in the first three volumes of the series into a knee-breaking, ankle-popping arsenal of low-line kicks.
His Indonesian fighting secrets can help you develop the blinding speed, lightning reflexes and spontaneous reactions that are the mark of a true fighter. Visit Bob Orlandos website: www. In this video, Christopher Petrilli gives you an inside look at an art that takes no prisoners, focusing his training on on the three Ds: defend, disarm and disable. That means he shows you how to get inside your armed attacker and stop him immediately with a series of brutal strikes.
Petrilli has distilled his knowledge of Japanese aikido, Indonesian silat and Filipino Doce Pares eskrima into an elevated system of stick fighting that goes far beyond anything previously captured on video.
In this threevolume set, he will teach you how to move from largo to mano range to the close-in fighting, sinawali patterns, disarming and maneuvering techniques and much more. Maximize your combative use of the cane by stripping away the flashy martial arts moves; utilizing the rapid, vicious strikes that take advantage of the canes size and heft, and then transitioning seamlessly into brutal combinations of striking and blocking.
See page 53 for Slashing the Lines, also by Christopher Petrilli. Former U. Army Ranger Christopher J. He is also an expert practitioner of Indonesian pentjak silat and Japanese aikido. In this video, Guro Sherril Johnson shows you how to build a thorough foundation based on comprehensive, easy-to-learn drills meant to maximize your strength and agility. Packed with figure-eight, abaniko, thrusting and flow drills, each systematically dissected and reviewed, this video teaches you high-speed strikes that can be burned into your muscle memory and automatically accessed when you need them.
Includes a special appearance by Grandmaster Christopher Petrilli. This is the place to start for practical, realistic stick-fighting techniques. Here he reveals the signature saddle techniques that have made him one of the most respected leglock coaches in the world. With step-by-step moves including entries, sweeps, passes, recounters and a host of submissions this book is a must for all MMA competitors searching for an edge over the competition.
From there, discover the penetration step that will put you in perfect position for a takedown or throw, as well as how to turn pummeling into an effective tool to develop superior hand placement and dominant body positioning. You will also learn how to perform firemans carries and the duck under, one of catch wrestlings least understood but most powerful moves, and how to execute throws from various positions that can cause serious injury or even death.
First youll perfect your punch by learning how to properly roll a fist to minimize or eliminate hand injuries; proper body mechanics to derive maximum power; and the breadand-butter jab, hook and uppercut. Then youll see how to develop your close-range weapons and kicks. Youll learn to condition your body and burn in catchs fundamental techniques, withstand the searing agony of such submissions as the double wrist lock and heel hook long enough to effect a counter or reversal, and attain the mind-set of a true streetfighter.
For quenching the knife I lighten up my Forge and insert my knife into the fire pit to heat it up. Once it becomes red hot I check it with the help of magnet stick whether it's ready for the quenching or not. Always make sure that when your blade becomes demagnetize that is the right temperature to quench your blade with the oil. One thing I definitely want to suggest you that always prefer to use bigger magnet which tells you better about the magnetized state of the material.
Then I dip The Blade into the quenching oil. To minimise the walking in the Blade I entered the knife into the oil from Spine because when you dip the knife into the oil the thinner portion gets cool down earlier than the thicker one.
And because of that the chances of warping The Blade increases. Hair you can see there is no warping occur into my blade. And to know the quenching I use the file to file down the knife. And at that time I am not able to file my knife which means that my knife gets harden with this process without any interruption. Once the knife has been changed I prepare it for the tempering process.
For that, I placed it onto my forge slightly higher so that less amount of heat reaches to the blade. Then I kept changing the position of The Blade and temper my blade for about 45 minutes. Off camera, I also check the tempering by hitting the knife on to the mild steel pipe and it makes a dent in the surface and blade didn't crack which is a good sign. After quenching and tempering process I hold the knife in the vice and start cleaning of those scales by sending it with the help of 60 grit Sandpaper.
If anybody knows how to minimise the scale formation then definitely post the comment in the comment section below.
Once I clean up the knife with 60 grit I proceeded dry sanding up to grit. Then up to grit, I do the wet sanding and bring the knife to the finished state. I also cleaned the handle portion of the knife as well but don't go with too much finish. I kept it lightly rough so that epoxy will make a better Bond with the handle. With the help of drill machine, I also cleaned up the vine pattern of the knife as well up to grit.
After cleaning up all the mass produced during the quenching process I proceed on to the handle work. For that, I first reducing the weight of the handle by drilling partial holes into the brass pieces.
It slightly works for me by reducing the weight to some extent. Then to increase the stability of those pieces I glued the handle to the micarta which I made.
Then with the help of coping saw I separate them apart and remove the extra material with the help of files and some other tools. After glueing that fibre material to the knife handle the overall build of the handle looks quite study. Then I drill the holes by placing knife onto the handle and drill 10 mm holes into the handle blanks.
To keep the handle at its position I use the mosaic pins so that they hold up the handle to the exact position during the drilling process. Where's the hole has been drilled out? Then I reshape the handle blanks. Then I shape the front portion of the handle because once it attached to the knife is quite difficult to reshape that portion of the handle.
This makes the design look more beautiful as well. You can choose any type of design for your knife handle. Also by shaping this portion, I reduce the weight of the knife handle to some extent.
Then I cut the mosaic pins with the help of hacksaw. Then with the help of two-part epoxy, I glued the handle with the knife and also inserted the mosaic pins into the knife handle as well. Then I clamped it securely and wipe off the excess glue squeeze out in the front portion of the handle with the help of acetone. Then I hold the knife in the vice and sand off all the excess glue with the help of angle grinder. Then I cut that strip and fold it from the centre and then draw a shape onto it.
Then I cut the template out of that strip. Once I got the template I laid it on the knife handle and start tracing the outline. Make sure to centralise your template on to the handle. I repeat the same process on the bottom side of the handle as well. Then I start reshaping the handle according to the marking and made the comfortable design. For the reshaping of my knife, I used a die grinder and needle files for this process.
Once I got the desired shape of the handle I start finishing the handle by removing the scratch marks. I sand off everything up to grit to remove all the deep scratches. Then with the help of angle grinder buffing wheel and buffing compound I clean up define marks and bring the knife to a mirror like finish. Here I am using this Potentiometer To vary the speed of my angle grinder. Because it's not safe to use grinder with its full speed onto knife.
Although there are a bunch of options you can proceed any of your choice. These pages attempt to give some life-sized kukri drawings. If the next couple of pages are printed, from the Adobe format, with no margins, you should get life-sized patterns.
What I did was either scan the kukri itself, or made a line-tracing of the kuri, and scanned that. The resulting two-page pictures were taped back together and compared with the original, until I got a replica. The following pattern had to have the upturned end on the tip removed, That upturn made it impossible to remove the kukri from its sheath, with any ease. The handles now have a thinner center, top and bottom. For starters, be sure to check out our Free G-Code Tutorial.
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