the ban on zombie knives has simply made us brits more versatile

Nice machete, but one thing concerns me and that's the heat treatment.

Using a stove or torch might work, but in the long run you'd probably be better off making a proper heat treatment set up.

I think Storm Crow posted a video here a long time ago on how to make a cheap home heat treatment rig, but I could be wrong. Either way, there's bound to be tons of videos on YouTube about that.

Also, invest in a bench grinder. It's probably a lot easier on you to use one of those rather than a hand held grinder. One wrong move with the hand held grinder and you could end up with a major injury to your hands.

Those comments aside, you're doing a good job with your videos. The volume of your music choices no longer covers up anything else in the video and we can actually hear you when you speak.

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One idea might be to find an old fashioned bellows and drill a hole towards the bottom side of that stove and use that to get the heat up. Still it's pretty amazing what you did. Good Job

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one thing you don't see in this video but you do in my most recent is that i used my heat gun as a method of forcing air through the fire

I skimmed the video, so I may have missed it. Is there mention of the alloy used?

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