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i'm Kerry Stagmer and we are the blacksmiths of Baltimore Knife and Sword
we're going to be building some of your favorite things and fantastic
objects you've never seen before this is Man at Arms Reforged
Welcome back to the third and final installment of berserker from lost ark here on man at arms
there's no days left this is it each one of the teams has to finish
everything on all of their different components you're going to see all of
these different pieces and all of their glory reassembled into the final finish for this sword
now that Derek and Ellen have depth and all the form of this piece
we've got to make it basically fit the final design of the sword he's going to go through
and trim these edges then we have to create some more pieces and the ears are up first
Derek cleaned up the headpiece part and then John welded it on and then we torch heated
the right here to get it knocked back at the right angle the next thing we have to do is
we're taking these pieces that we caught on the plasma to create the lion's mane so we've already
got a little bit of shape put into this we've got a little bit more where we're going to be
tacking it in place so that it's actually seated where we want it so that it's curving around this
nice headdress shape and then we'll move on to the side pieces with the ears and the rest of the main
now that we've got a bunch of these segments of the tip we want to
clean up the surfaces so we have relatively consistent finish
so what i'm going to do is take these and run them on a surface conditioning wheel
so we get a finish that's relatively clean before we put stuff together
because trying to do it afterwards with this thing being so huge is just not going to work well
using a special wheel on the sander we call the knife wheel,
Bill is going in and cutting detail into this part of the pommel
so
all right we've got the first half of the edged part on the inside of our guard attached
now i need to MIG weld the second half now this is only 16 gauge metal so i had to crank
the amperage way down and we've got to take our time because it's a little bit of precise weld
so now we have the main body of our sword in all these different pieces we actually need to
zap them all together and get them all lined up so they sit just right because it's all gonna
be one sword right and there's a lot of stuff to go on it once we get that structure together
we still have all of the overlays and all of the fancy doodads that need to go on
that are the details here we can't align any of those until the structure itself
so our next step is to go ahead and fit the tail section or the guard tack weld it in place
then we can start applying our side edges because they will determine the location of the tip
once we have that all located and we're happy with it then we can start tack welding the
parts for the tip together which can then later be removed and finished that will also allow
us to work on the overlays and the rest of the guard based on the locations of our side pieces
so
time and time again you bring us new and incredible challenges this time the task was
absolutely monumental it took a shop of 12 people several weeks day and night working on this sword
now that all the tasks are completed we bring to you berserker from lost ark
so
you got this? ..... maybe
that's as good as i'm okay with yeah looks great
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