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
today on manned arms we're going to be building nail from hollow knight
in a rare twist we're going to be making something much larger than it actually is
because obviously they're bugs they're small so we'll make something we can handle we're going
to do the simplest version the sharpen nail the reason for that is on an all me artist episode
we'll upgrade it at the nailsmith to pure nail we'll start with the forging show you the whole
process and get out to the testing grounds here on man at arms for our hollow knight build
now i need to weld this handle onto this billet let's get to it
Even though the form of nail is fairly simple Kevin's got to be careful and keep enough material
that he can get these really wide shoulders for this blade
it's all one piece forging no way to cheat this
so he's gonna drive this handle create the form that we need and then begin to forge the blade
so
Kevin now has this preform to shape i know it kind of looks like a paddle
but he's got the material exactly where he needs it
keeping the shoulders wide Kevin now begins the taper he'll keep going back
and flattening this piece but he's going to keep it thick for
me because when i do this grinding i want a very high peak in the center
we're getting very close to the form that i'll need to grind imagine this came from just a big
piece of three-inch round steel Rob and Kevin now work together as a team refining the shape
of this blade they're going to get it clean tapered flat and then begin forging the edges
all right we have nail from hollow knight here
as you saw earlier we started with a piece of three inch round stock of 10 45
and we're gonna get going get the profile done and start grinding her out
when Kevin came to Baltimore Knife and Sword he was already a highly skilled blacksmith
he really hadn't made a lot of blades or a lot of figurative work it's pretty amazing how at
this stage he can just take a raw piece of material and finish it all the way to
the level where we need to finish a blade he's working on a lot of damascus himself now it's
going to be really great to see where he goes over the next few months so kevin's passed nail
off to me he's done the forging he cut the profile in but there's a lot of metal left
i'm gonna go right to the sander 36 grid five horsepower we're gonna dump some metal on the
ground
so
now that rob has this blade up to temperature he's going to quench it into the oil
it'll come out check for some straightness it'll be very hard
we'll do a tempering stage and then get back to grinding and polishing
so Kevin and Derek have hardened this and they've tempered it I've got it now but
there's still a blackened finish on it that we want to polish the whole piece
and we'll end up having to cut some shoulders in as well so I'm just
going to go ahead start with an 80 grit and polish this thing all the way out
just because something is simple in form when it's finished doesn't mean it's not
complex to create we also have to give a lot of consideration to where the material will be
when we upgrade from sharpened nail to pure nail
so
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