This episode is sponsored by Amazon Games
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
We were very excited when amazon games contacted us about making a sword for the game lost ark
then they sent over what they wanted us to build the berserker sword it is an absolutely massive
like monumental sculpture of a weapon we're gonna have to do this in multiple episodes it's it's too
much work to just concise into one man at arms episode we're going to do it in multiple parts
we'll show you how everything comes together we'll be doing just about every process you can think of
from the sculpting and the hammering forging rep work with these large lion heads that go in the
center we'll get the whole thing together show you the finished product and you'll be blown away
so in building a sword this big we can't really approach it like a normal sword
we've got to think of it more as a kind of a monumental work of sculpture
what we've done is built this central backbone out of pipe that's going to
have the rest of these frame pieces attached to it we've broken it up into three sections
at the front the center and the back john's getting ready to put the second plates on the top
and then that will give us the whole framework that we can build the rest of the sword around
so we're cutting a series of back panels they kind of are going to sit on top of that pipe
infrastructure that's going to be the center of this piece um it's so large we have to make sure
that it's structurally sound that it'll stand on its own so this is actually the back panel where
the lion's head will be so the chin area is down about here and the whole face comes out and it's
going to protrude out six to eight inches on each side and then of course there's the main body but
all the different panels that we're cutting these are in 10 gauge steel which is about eighth of an
inch thick is going to give us a pretty strong structure underneath and then we're going to
be able to build the blades around the outside of that and there's big spikes up on the ends
and well as soon as we have these plates laid out you'll see what the entire piece is going
to look like all right so i've sketched out the lion's head on this piece of sheet metal and i'm
going to draw it out on this one because we need to make two because derek and i will be forming
these into lion's heads and first we're going to start with the press to start dishing out
the shape the depths of this has to be about six inches tall so it's going to be a lot of forging
and chasing our bizet work on these sheaths to get them to look like lion's heads and we're going to
be going back and forth between different techniques to get the volume that we need
all right so this is the major depth that we had to get with this
that's actually the most challenging bit so now we can come in and start to refine these shapes
and get more definition so once we get the higher relief formed we're going to get the
nose in which is the highest form of relief on here and then we can get into the detail work
now that we've got the structure for this sword ready we need to actually make it into a sword
and that means bringing it to an edge it's a little bit complicated to do because we've got
such a thick section here so we've got a sort of a top-down view of the the shape of the pattern
here and paul and i are going to be laying out some cardboard and making patterns so we get all
the material we need and since the fact that this blade profile actually goes from about four and
a half inches to two and a half inches it gets even more complex as we have to twist and make
the metal form in different ways we have to cut it different ways to make that form actually come out
now that we've done a whole bunch of arts and crafts between me and decker we started with
this this is our over top blade profile to see how far would actually stick off the body of the sword
and then we made up this paper profile to actually figure out how much um steel we needed to actually
make the bevel of the blades we gave that to carrie and he got to cutting and he made us this
we chopped it in a couple of different pieces so it'd be a little bit easier there's a lot of
there's a lot of space to move around with angles of steel and we wanted to make it a little easier
ourselves so what we're going to do to make the blade profile we're going to take this sheet
this piece of quarter inch this piece of quarter inch we're going to bevel
it to that and that'll give us a little bit more bite to our blade
now berserker from lost ark has a large illuminated panel in the center of the sword
we're going to create this from one inch plexiglass i'll draw the patterns out
then we'll cut them out sculpt the bevels and we can illuminate this on the sword
so
so here i have the overlays for the top of the sword the large jewel is going to
sit in between these i have to go in now and grind all the bevels on these
i'm going to start with the bottoms first then i'm going to do the tops after i fit them to the
blade itself once they're fitted then i'll go in and grind the bevels on this as well
now that we've finished cutting and profiling the plexiglass pieces
for the berserker sword we finished the jewel edges
all these have been faceted final finish we begun bezelling the large centerpiece which
is very similar to grinding the edges of a sword but in plexiglas we'll get this finished up to
the same fit and finish as the jewel pieces so we can illuminate the berserker sword
we're going to be making the pommel for the berserker sword
overall a pretty complicated piece we have these two pieces here which i need
to draw out of this inch and a quarter brown stalk we'll be drawing them out to a point
and i'll be using my template here to make these pieces match and then we'll be overlaying other
pieces over top so we're going to get started it's a bit of a job but we'll get it done
so
so you've seen the berserker sword from lost ark starting to come together we just kind of have the
size and some of the form some of the underlying structure when we get into the next episode
you'll see those pieces begin to come together ellen and derek are going to continue working
on those lions heads they're going to take an incredible amount of time to finish but i am very
happy with the way that's all coming together once the entire piece is assembled those lion heads
will go on just about last and then we'll get into those big glowing jewels you see on the sides
ferentz will have that ready for us before long make sure you come back and see the next episode
as we begin to finish each of those structures and see how they fit together
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