NazarZhuravel

Hello everyone, my name is Nazar, I am 31 years old

and I am a blacksmith.

the title of the topic is the distance from my house in Ukraine to the city of Chicago, where I currently live.

I have had fibrous dysplasia of the hip joint since childhood, this unpleasant disease has always limited me in some way

,so it happened and now, with the beginning of the war with Russia, I wanted to join the army to defend my country from the Russians, but I was declared unfit for military service due to illness.

To be useful, my friends and I repaired cars that went to the front. I sold the machines from the forge to buy things for military friends who were going to war.

there wasn't a day that I didn't want to go back to the forge, because it was my life's work. and that's what I'm good at.

there is such a period in the war that people get used to it, we have been living this way since 2014, someone is tired of hearing it all the time, and then people are not very helpful, I understand that. but the war is on, and it has not gone anywhere.

therefore, when I realized that every month it would be more and more difficult for me to help my friends, I considered it my duty to provide them with a good rear with all my strength and capabilities.

so I ended up in the United States of America, now I live in Chicago, I already got a work permit and I would like to find a job in a forge where I can make knife blades or knives because I can do it well.

the only minus is that I don't speak English perfectly, but I understand a lot, I learn quickly. I wrote this text with the help of a translator))).

as far as my skills are concerned

i know how to make mokume.

mosaic damascus. random damascus .cable damascus

I have many blade smithing techniques.

I work with leather.

I will add a photo of my work, maybe you know someone who needs an assistant in a forge in Chicago. I wrote to many blacksmiths who I found with the help of Google in Chicago, only 3 wrote back and unfortunately they are not ready to hire me. Thank you for reading to the

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_TsNQxL1rM

The video shows the process of how I did cutters for homemade lathe wood. Thank you for attention!

Hi all, I offer you a video that how i make the Stitching Groover.Thank you for your watching

Very nice video.  I liked the fast forward approach and very much liked the piano background music...very relaxing.  So many videos these days seem to be obsessed with rock or heavy metal which can detract from the topic of the video.  I just mute it.

 

It was amazing to watch the knive evolve from a ball bearing.  Would have never imagined it.  Good work!

Thank you for your good words!

That is nice... Those ball bearing are high on tungsten? 
 

Thank you!There is no tungsten. http://metallicheckiy-portal.ru/marki_metallov/stk/SHX15

By the way, welcome Nazar!

Nice video. Thanks for posting it! How about a picture of the finished knife when you are done?!
Mitch

Thank you. The knife is not ready yet, will soon be the second part.

Hi all, I offer you a video that I forged blade with balls of the bearing.Thank you for your kind attention. http://youtu.be/8n-QTQIVS3A