We all know that to become a true champion of the Rift,
you must equip yourself for glory.
One legendary item, as unique as its original wielder,
will lead you there,
for it has come to symbolize the unexpectedness, the daring,
and yes, certainly,
the absurdity that is the awesomeness of Teamfight Tactics!
Today, that symbol is reborn in fire and steel!
Join us as we meet Tony Swatton.
- Hey.
- Master blacksmith! Wielder of hammer and flame!
Forger of destinies! Spark-slinger to the stars!
Raging tempest of rippling biceps! Epic beard-grower!
- Yeah, I think we gotta get going on this thing here.
- Ooh, sorry... yeah, I'll just go.
- Thanks for that intro. I'm Tony Swatton.
You're in my shop, The Sword and the Stone,
and today we are gonna make the epic utensil,
Urf's Golden Spatula!
- YES! That very golden spatula,
first wielded by the godlike manatee himself, Urf!
This weapon of absolute destruction
has descended from the heavens to grace the Little Legends
with a cosmic and unknowable power.
- We're kinda burning daylight,
we should probably get going.
- Ooh, right. Let's do this!
- Let's do this.
We're gonna take a bar of 4130 Chromoly steel.
This piece will be left here,
and widened twice as wide to be six inches wide,
and this will be spread that way
and will be eight inches long.
Cut it down to about 12 or 18 inches in length,
and then change the shape of it
so it looks like the spatula.
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I've got my metal at temperature.
It's about 1,500 degrees.
Nice, red heat.
Okay this is an eight pound hammer
that I can swing fairly easily.
I'm a strong guy.
This hammer hits with 60 kilos of force or 134 pounds.
This machine was built in 1945,
but it hits with the equivalency of about 250 pounds.
Eight pounds... 250 pounds.
(clanking)
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I'm gonna be using a couple different techniques
under the power hammer.
I'm taking a large mass of steel.
I'm going to pinch the length on the handle,
and then I'll take the spatula flipper end
and forge that out thinner and draw that out.
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I've just forged the spatula.
I'm gonna cut it off to the length here with a chop saw.
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Take the plasma cutter and trim off these edges
and open up the slots.
The plasma cutter basically harnesses the power of the sun.
So just annihilating that metal underneath there.
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The vertical mill is basically
like a drill press on steroids.
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I'm gonna use a half inch carbide end mill
to open up the slots.
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So we've milled the slots after plasma cutting them
into this beautiful spatula.
I'm gonna change the belt here on the belt grinder
to a new 36 grit belt so it's a little bit more aggressive.
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We're making it out of the high tensile,
high alloy material.
It doesn't really gain those properties
until we heat treat it.
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So after heat treating,
give it a nice golden hue to make the golden spatula.
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- That was epic!
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