well today's episode of man at arms reforged we wanted to do something a little different instead
of our traditional builds on camera we wanted to show you a little something about how baltimore
knife sword operates day to day we'll be going over some of our forging our grinding of some
of our more popular products like a hand and a half a small slasher and even a falcata basically
we'll be showing you some of the steps that make them unique baltimore knife and sword products
i'm carrie 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 it's a piece of three-quarter by three-quarter mild steel
what we use to do the horse head pommels on our falcatas a regular production item we have here
we sell a lot of these so i make a lot of these our good pal sam showed ilya how to do this and
ilya showed me how to do this and i'm going to show you how i do this so we'll get started
kevin begins this forging by pre-forming the shape of the horse head
he's going to get this general form laid in before he does any of the punch work
steps in to hold the material while kevin begins cutting the ears and eyes
this way it allows him to not only do the one side but be able to flip it over while
he's still got a chisel and a hammer in his hands a quick chill to the back of
the head will keep everything in shape as he begins to cut the mouth takes the entire
piece back to the heat then tanner will hold it for him while he cuts in the main
this is one of our be cast vacata blades now we have our blades laser cut this is for all of our
production swords then we go through mill the fullers in if they need it and sometimes even
chisel them to add a little bit of extra to it then we harden them after we're done
with all that i have to go in to rough the blades to shape from start to finish
bill begins the grinding with a 36 grit on one of our big baiter sanders this is going to allow
him to blend that edge in he'll get the entire piece ground before he does the flat surfaces
we'll do the flats then we'll go to polish the whole time the thing has to stay cool
skull pommels have been some of the most popular things that we had on our swords these pieces are
made in wax initially cast in bronze polish them up whenever we need them so this will
get polished just before it gets attached to the sword this is our bks small slasher blade
we actually make these in much larger sizes matt came up with the design a few years ago and it's
actually become quite popular i make quite a lot of these during the year we're gonna go through
we're gonna rough an edge on it this also gets a false edge and then we're going to go through
and scale up these two sections here to make it look a little bit serrated
over the years this fantasy form has been incredibly popular
it used to be that the largest versions of it where we make 28 inch blades or 32
inch blades for the most popular but we find that the 19 inch blade now is
really the most popular version of this and we make an incredible number of them each year
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so i'm going to show you how we do our standard fluted pommel for our hand and a half sword i'm
going to use this vader knife wheel grinder we're going to do a slow rotating motion as we
feed into the wheel to follow these black lines i've marked out ahead of time we're going to do
eight of these all the way around the pommel this narrow knife wheel is actually something that's
fairly traditional although it wouldn't have been run with a belt it would have been a hard wheel
in the past it's the same basic concept we do if you were say going to be cutting glass a cut glass
valves would be cut the same way only there'd be some water on the wheel at the same time to keep
the glass from breaking we do an incredible amount of ornamentation this way in all different forms
i'm going to be doing the rough grinding on what is really one of our very most popular swords
which is our hand and a half this is a 32 inch blade we make them in 32
36 38 35 kind of anything up in that range
sometimes we're working when the piece is soft it's actually easier to grind things when they're
hard um this has already been hardened this is not a forged blade or it would have had a pre-grind
this is actually laser cut to shape from like big huge sheets we make hundreds at a time
i do have to keep it cool so that it doesn't anneal the piece and
it'll lose its temperature i hope you've enjoyed seeing some of the more standard things we make
here at baltimore knife and sword we'll continue to make these crazy forged pieces for man at arms
but we wanted you to see what we're making every single day all year long
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