I'll try
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I'm Matt I'm Kerri
we are the stag my brothers a Baltimore
knife and sword we're going to be
building some of your favorite weapon
some weapons that you've never seen
before
this is man-at-arms reforged you guys
have been asking for an hour to build
for a long time it is one of most
popular and successful anime franchises
I don't know about you guys but when I
think about that manga series
I think of shinobi or ninja and I think
it's growing like that's what we're
going to make on this
the first step in forging the kunai
where the throwing knives is to draw out
the stock you starting from some large
1045 round stock so he's going to draw
it out to about one by one square
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after drawing out a square bar Lily is
going to pinch off seven inch sections
to create each individual knife
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working from the first section that he
clipped off billion now draws out the
handle area using a round spring swage
this will allow this handle to have its
final shape all done in the cordial
the blades on these throwing knives have
very pronounced diamond shapes to them
and both the bevels on the blade and
they have too little back bevels as well
lilia made a special dye to allow him to
do this all underneath the power not
only does it save a lot of time but it
also allows them to make each blade
exactly the same this will save me a lot
of time in the grind
time to move on to the back section
which is a ring Lily's going to first
flatten out that section then punch a
hole then he's going to use another
spring switch that you made specifically
to round the inside of the hole
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so during the forging of our kunai a
little bit of twisting happens you can
see the ring is just a little off-kilter
from the blade no big deal since we have
a round cross-section on the handle I'm
just going to use the torch heat up a
section twist them right where they need
to be we will move on to grind
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time to move on to grinding my first
goal is to clean up the rag on the
backside that was left over from the hot
cut tool and then I'll go ahead and
round off the whole backside and see I
really don't have to do anything to the
handles at all they're forced to shape
they're right on the dies he made for
the blade sections do a really great job
you can see they leave a little bit of a
rag around the perimeter so I'll clean
that up and move on to the Platt
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usually when we do an anime build we're
doing big far-out funky pieces but these
kunai are actually historical pieces
like I mentioned before they're a little
exaggerated in the anime but they're
basically spot-on
they just have a little more mass just
means they're going to hit harder when
you throw
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alright throwing knives are kunai are
almost complete and since this is a
throwing weapon episode we figured we
should throw in some chickens as well
now these are really easy to draw and
AutoCAD since they are symmetrical items
you can just draw your points use the
array tool we want to make it around a
central point select that central point
change it to 4 items instead of 6 boom
there's our first one let's do another
pattern and select your central point
mirror it around this is the array tool
say it about there tell it 4 points
instead of 6 pretty cool you can see I'm
going to draw a whole bunch of different
ones of these we can go ahead and get
them plasma cut ride them heat treat
them we'll be ready for demos
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now that I've finalized my three desired
designs I'm going to hand them off to
Kerry and he's going to get them cut out
on the plasma cutter
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since we have three different designs of
throwing stars I'm calling in three
different craftsmen to do the grinding
John Rick and Bill afterwards we're
going to move on to e3
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with the first batch throwing stars and
throwing knives ground the shape time to
move on the key tree
Illya is going to heat them up to around
1450 degrees and then quench them after
that we'll temper them and then we can
move on to final polishing
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now that we have our first batch of
knives and brewing stars he treated and
tempered we can move on to the final
finishing now on the stars they're nice
and black from the heat treat so we're
just going to brighten up the edges make
sure they're good and sharp and pointy
they'll be good to go
but with the knives we have to do some
final shaping on the back ends and on
the blades themselves so once they're
completely polished out we'll just do
some blackening solutions and get them
back to that nice dark color
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one thing Elliot I noticed when
practicing throwing is knives is that
the polished surfaces don't actually aid
you at all actually make it a little too
slippery so a lot of these knives were
just going to leave at a rougher grit so
that we have a better grip when throwing
them in the demo but we have to stay
true to the anime where they're nice and
polished in the show and then they have
a black and finish so here's one all the
way polished out leave some black oxide
darken them up after all these are ninja
weapons and they wouldn't want anything
shiny
all right one down got a few more to go
we'll get these handles wrap then we'll
be done
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we first decided to do this build we
thought it would be a pretty simple one
but we were pleasantly surprised to see
how effective these weapons really are
we've been practicing throwing them for
a little while but now let's see who can
throw them the best
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