this episode is sponsored by Chivalry 2
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 man at arms we'll be working with chivalry 2. this game is absolutely amazing
you know these are all the same kind of weapons that we build on a regular basis so we decided
to build one that's really very different we're going to be making the Royal Maciejowski Messer
this is a huge weapon if you go to the morgan bible and take a good look at it
you'll see that it's depicted in many forms from a single one-hander
to a fairly large chopping weapon we're going to be making something very special and much larger
to flatten this big round stock the guys are going to be going to the hydraulic press to start with
you'll see that there are people on each side of the press that's primarily because we've got
a control system that requires you to have both hands on the machine that's you know obviously
to keep your hands from getting caught underneath it's a good safety precaution and for something
this large we've actually got obviously the third person is carrying the material itself bringing
it in we're going to press this down to the bar form from there we'll be able to go to the power
we call creating the bar in the hydraulic press blanking
the material down or breaking the material down now that it's in bar form derrick is
going to be able to go to the power hammer and begin to make the sword
there's only a limited amount of time where we can keep the heat in this bar to keep forging it
it'll begin to cool off and we're gonna have to go back to the forges
normally it just takes three or four heats for a standard blade
but when you get into something big and fantastic like this it can take a really long time
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sometimes when we have a sword or an object under the hammer that's so big
one person can't control it somebody will come in in this case decker will come in and give
a stabilizing hand with another pair of tongs on the power hammer it takes a fair amount of
skill to do this because you have to know what the other person is trying to create as you go
the power hammer is a free-forming tool the press
has a die set in it that allows us to basically get this more refined
flatten it out and get to a nice even thickness decker will now go back to the hydraulic press
and get this thing nice and even and then we're going to work on getting it straight
really no matter how many tools you have the big machines at some point
don't quite get the forms that you need derek's going to go back to using a sledgehammer just to
refine it straighten it and get a good feel for the direction he wants to go to create this sword
anytime we're creating a blade quite this large
it's going to take more than one guy it really is one of those things where you expend all
your energy and if you have a second set of hands you can probably work three or four times as long
now that they've finished drawing out this massive piece of steel derrick's going to
go to the power hammer to free form it to draw it out quickly he's going to be using a bottom fuller
it's locked onto the bottom die and then the upper die strikes as the hammer would normally
work this is going to allow him to spread material in the direction he needs and move it very quickly
just to make sure that i had the scale right i did cut out a template in thin sheet metal that really
let me make sure that when we make this blade not only will it conform to the size
and shape that we need to fit in the guard but that it'll stay symmetrical
all right so we've got this sword uh basically rough shaped out decker and i are gonna heat
this guy up now i'm going to be forging the end of this we're going to draw this point out and
we're going to create the hook that's at the tip of the sword after that we're going to
heat the rest of the blade up and we're going to draw the edge the whole way along the blade
going to work the entire length of the edge with decker and get this ready to grind
in truth we actually make a lot of these huge messers in this form uh it's one of
those things that really is requested by a lot of customers we make them in three sizes we make
a small a medium and a large and a large i think is pretty big it has a 28 inch blade
this has a 45 inch blade this thing is huge
so
now that we have this huge blade forged it's one of the things that it's just a little bit
too big for anybody to handle at the grinders so decker's going to be able to go in and help bill
so they'll they'll basically trade off and bill's going to guide how the piece is ground and decker
is going to support it and once again it seems like you know anybody could just be standing there
holding one end but it's not like that because every little movement that bill makes he needs
deckard to kind of mirror that or he just won't be able to control the blade these two guys are pros
now that the blade is brought up to a fairly even temperature about 1500 degrees where we
can quench it and it'll harden we're going to be quenching it into oil in this tank
it might seem like the blade is longer than the tank but the tanks actually go several
feet into the ground this allows us to basically be able to stand right in front of the tank and
still be able to put these huge swords in and it keeps the temperature of the oil at a constant
because it's down in the ground and it uses the mass of the ground to maintain the temperature
of the oil so when we do multiple blades things don't get overheated now that we
have the blade heat treated and the size of the tang is locked in we know what we needed to be
we can go to the milling machine and cut a slot that slot will be where the tang goes through
and once we've got that done kevin's going to be able to take it and forge out the rest of the form
kerry just finished machining a slot in here to fit on our big sword and that
means it's ready to go on the fire be drawn down brought to shape and hopefully it'll fit
so
so as you can see from this already i've already gone on one side
polish the flat up to a high grit and roughed out the edge a bit more
now we're going to take this and i'm going to do it to the other side
go through rough it out do the flats and then i'm going to turn it over the carry to do the edge
now that bill's gotten this entire sword ground for me i'm gonna be able to just take it from him
get some polishing and some final tweaking of the piece we'll get it assembled
and get out there to the battleground
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