Hey guys
I'm the Hacksmith and my team and I take fictional ideas from movies and make them real
We've done projects like Captain America's electromagnet shield. The Kingsmen umbrella, Zarya's particle cannon, Thor's hammers
Batman's grappling hook gun, a real-life lightsaber and even Captain America's new wakandan shield
In fact, we have over 70 videos in our youtube series Make it Real
But if there's one project you guys have been asking for non-stop, it's Thor's new axe Stormbreaker
In fact, if you follow us on social media, you'll see that we've actually been working on this project for quite a while
Forged by the heart of a dying sun Stormbreaker is made from Uru and is apparently the strongest weapon in Asgard history
Wait, what\ kind of weapon are we talking about here?
The Thanos killing kind
Now obviously, we don't have a dying Sun handy
But I think we can make a pretty impressive version of Stormbreaker ourselves using mere mortal technology. It'll be destructive
It'll be able to catch lightning and we'll see if I can throw it, plus I'm gonna aim for the head
Let's get started with the design
All right so Stormbreaker
Now I've wanted to do Stormbreaker ever since I did Captain America's Wakandan shield
So to speed the process up a little bit
I'm going to use Grab CAD and see if I can find a Model of Stormbreaker that I can base my design off of
So this model is made by Akki Sahu and I'll put a link
In the description below. Let's take a look at it.
There is the model
And hopefully this is to scale. Let's see how big it is. It's almost half a meter
That is huge. This is a great model,
Unfortunately, we can't just make it because it is a solid model
I'm gonna have to redesign it to be able to
Plasma cut it out of sheet metal and then weld it together into the shape we want
So first of all, we're gonna get rid of the handle because we're gonna be doing the handle ourselves completely custom
I got some cool ideas for that, but you'll learn later. So what we're gonna do is we're going to
Look at it from this side
You're gonna go ahead and click export to DXF. And as you can see what we'll end up with
is a perfect 2D outline of the entire Stormbreaker. We're gonna open up that DXF
and import it as a 2D sketch. And the neat thing with this is we can actually
delete the stuff. We don't want so for the purpose of this I actually don't want any of that
Whatever we'll clean it up inside the file now
All right, so we've got this
Now the only unfortunate thing with a sketch like this is nothing is constrained which means
If I was to click and drag a point it messes up the whole drawing
And we're gonna make this out of quarter-inch steel
All right, so we got the axe blade now and we got three holes
And now I'm going to rebuild it with my new parts
Alright so there's the center blade
So, yeah the idea will be to
Weld this on to this bracket first and then tack weld these on here and then using a bolt we can actually
squeeze the blades together and hopefully bend the steel here as well
And then we're going to fill in this entire crack with a weld bead and then sharpen the whole thing
So kind of hard to see but
We cut that plate. We weld it there we bend it in and seal the whole blade up
Let's look at adding some of these detail pieces
Starting to look kind of cool, maybe. It's the endgame now
We're in the endgame now
And if you guys are interested in seeing the CAD files for Stormbreaker they're available on our patreon page
All right. Let's start plasma cutting this
Perfect
Yep, let's start plasma cutting
Now to cut out the steel we'll be using our Maverick CNC plasma cutter that we got from Elite Metal Tools
EMT is kind of like the Amazon for industrial manufacturing equipment
That's gross. That's gross man. You gotta be more careful
You did it again
Whatever
We're going to clear this off and then get the grinder out
Did somebody say angle grinder
All right
Now that we've got it tack welded, here's the fun part
We have to try and bend this quarter inch steel plate right here to touch the middle blade
I'm really not too sure how hard that is going to be
So we'll start with just a clamp
And see how that works
If it doesn't I put holes here so we put the screw through and then actually bolt it close, but let's see what happens
It just seems to work pretty good
Back to the welder
All right, it actually worked way better than I thought it would
I ended up having to use a vise to help squeeze the pieces in but once I did that
It was actually really easy to bend which is pretty awesome. Considering this is a quarter inch steel plate
So I basically just tack welded along the edge
Now I can do a really thick weld bead because at the end of the day
What we're gonna do is we're actually gonna grind down this entire area
Into a sharp blade point so this thing can do some serious damage
Well, back at it
Not the most amazing weld but for something this it really doesn't matter because we're actually gonna grind it all off anyways
And after all, As uncle AVE always says grinder and paint makes me the welder I ain't
All right
So the reason I drilled these holes is because I actually kind of forgot something in the design
Some of the decorative pieces we want to weld it on to the axe
Without showing any weld bead and the way of doing that is something called plug welding
So what we can actually do is we attach it to the surface
And then you just start welding inside the hole then that will actually hold it down
This is how we did the majority the Wakandan Shield and it's how we were able to have such clean lines like these
Just using a plasma cutter and a welder. So let's weld these
All right, outside we go
Outside we go
There's my axe
It's heavy
The best part about owning your own house is being completely irresponsible with things you screw to things
So
Think we have to weld more?
Oh, yeah, we will. We will need to weld a lot more
Yay
You look like a monkey in that jumpsuit
Ow,
Damn it Dum-e
Alright so picked up a new sandblaster
I ground as much as I can. The problem is because of all these details
It's actually really hard to evenly grind in between stuff now. So there's a lot of like slag on here still
I'm hoping the sandblaster takes it off but the goal of this is see if we can get it all one consistent texture throughout so
I'm gonna do a few little tests see what happens and hopefully it works out
All right, that worked pretty good
As you can see the sandblasting gives it a pretty good uniform finish
When compared to the other side, you can see the grind marks everywhere
Now, obviously I do need to knock off all these little bits of slag because I wasn't too careful when I was welding
But this was really just a test to see does the sandblaster work and it looks like it does
And then we're still gonna have to give the blade an actual edge. I mean, it's pretty sharp right now
but
We could probably make it sharper
And it only weighs 20 pounds so far
All right
so it's been a lot of welding and grinding let's take a break and actually see just how sharp
and powerful this axe is going to be
Unfortunately, and we don't have the hammer portion and when your axe doesn't have a hammer you might as well hammer your axe
Ready? Should I have safety glasses?
All right. Let's see what this thing to do.
This is weird
That's awesome
That was a pretty small hammer
We've got a bigger one
That thing is pretty sharp.
How about a magic trick?
Hey Owen, you wanna see a magic trick?
I'm gonna make this pencil disappear
Tah Dah! It's gone
Oops
Well then
Alright, so what else could we do until we build the hammer end and the handle
Also, how are we even gonna do the handle?
I mean, we don't exactly have Groot
What other arm could we use?
Someone give me a knife to cut off my
Alright, right there. Hold it and alright swing
three two one
It's actually pretty balanced, for swinging backwards
Yeah, that's pretty creepy
Alright so we're actually gonna smash this head once Stormbreaker is done
But it seems like a waste to do it with just the blade
I'm really curious to see what this is actually gonna be like to hold.
So we're gonna rig something up with some steel
To see what it's actually gonna be like to hold this thing
And to simulate the counterweight
We'll actually just leave the cinderblock on the other side
I'm supposed to hold this
I'm doing it
34 kilograms. 34 kilograms that's like 70-80 pounds
21 kilograms, that's a lot more than 20 pounds Ian
Yeah, when I did the exoskeleton curl it was 4 cinder blocks and they worried like 35 pounds each
And no one believed me
Well, we hope you guys enjoyed that video I've already started putting together the hammer portion of Stormbreaker
So make sure you subscribe and hit that notification bell to catch the next part of the build
And don't forget to follow us on social too because we post updates between videos. Thanks for watching
That's gross man
That's pretty ***** creepy
It's in the air