I've been a blacksmith Armour for over
30 years I've created weapons for over
200 feature films
this is man-at-arms the other day I was
reading the messages you've been sending
in and I stumbled across a strange
request hey Tony Kevin here from Vsauce
2 and I've been researching legendary
real swords but was wondering what a
legendary fantasy sword would look like
in real life like sting from The Hobbit
or Lord of the Rings
I'd love to come check it out and see if
you could really make it glow blue
well Kevin this one's for you
blacksmith sharp is a pencil so I'm
making sting from The Hobbit in this
case I've ordered a United cutlery
license coffee and I think the one I got
is actually hobbit-sized it's a little
bit smaller than I expected but it is a
limited edition and we're going to
replicate sting by having this piece
next to it the blade is made out of 5160
steel we've cut it out on the bandsaw
I found the bevels for the 10-inch
contact wheel
forge the tang underneath the power
hammers drawn out
the handle is going to be made out of
coca Bollywood and I've drilled a hole
in the grip and burned it onto the hot
tang of the metal so that the handle
fits very tight
the Hilton Palmer are forged out of an
ingot of bronze a lot of people assume
that I've made things for Lord of the
Rings or Hobbit I've made things based
on that through my movie work and
television work but I didn't actually
work on those films but I did grow up
reading the book so I loved the book and
I loved the look that Wetty workshops in
Peter lion who originally made these
pieces for the movies came up with so
you know replicating it and doing it in
my style it's been a very fun build
yes
as the shape hammered into the pommel
I'm going to hammer that into the bronze
right under here that shape the rest of
it
he treated the blade
I've sanded it down to 120 grit and then
taking it to the satin glow greaseless
compound and smoothed it out to 320 grit
and I'm now polishing the blade with
EADS we call it the wheel with get the
high speed large buffing wheel I have an
artist who is working off-site he's
taking the artwork from the original
sting blade and tracing it on to a piece
of vellum or transparency which we will
in turn burn a polymer silkscreen which
lays over the blade and over the bronze
hilt and then we'll use the
electrochemical etching to give it a
nice deep edge after the blade was
etched I polished both sides back up and
put them back into the heat treating
oven about 500 degrees or there abouts
and heated it to orcish blue coloration
so I thought it would be kind of cool
that if I flip the blade around one side
would show that it's glowing blue saying
you know there's orc somewhere around us
the other side I polished back down the
silver I also sent the bronze Hylton
pommel out to get it commercially
nickel-plated so that it had a nice
bright silver look like the original did
the only thing I would have liked to
done more would sting is it has a very
distinctive vine pattern inlaid into the
handle my preference would be to
actually inlay sterling silver vines and
leaves in there but once I evaluated
what it would actually take would
probably be 20 to 30 hours of you know
carving in the recesses and then
piercing out the silver and then
wrapping it into blue cocobolo grip in
the time schedule we have that's not
going to happen so I had Johnny draw it
out on aluminum tape and cut out that
shape with an exacto knife and apply
that over the top of the cocobolo grill
it came out pretty good I mean it's got
a great balance in the hand it's a
really nice short-sword knife I mean it
would be a sword for a hobbit but for me
it's it's a big knife
hey hey are you doing great great thank
you so much for having me here this
place is amazing well thank you since
you're doing something on legendary
weapons I figured I'd present one so you
could check it out wow this is so
amazing you have so much great stuff
here well thank you many people don't
realize you can actually see these
weapons that might shop the sword and
the stone in Burbank California you
could look up more information at WCA in
stone comm you want to try it out
yes all right cool
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